Ditto, as Crab says.
I don't recall working on a helo hydraulic flight control system without a sloppy link, and I've seen a few.
The sloppy bit comes in a variety of guises, but it's not going to work unless you can move the selector valve to open the fluid passage to the power ram, which then moves and in so doing recentres and closes the selector.
It's what my old Dad would call a closed-loop system