"B" front end? Any hints or tricks? "UPDATE"
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Topic: "B" front end? Any hints or tricks? "UPDATE"
Posted By: R.W
Subject: "B" front end? Any hints or tricks? "UPDATE"
Date Posted: 30 May 2012 at 9:49am
Is there any hints or tricks to get the "straight" front axle to move? It has been soaking for too days, I have given it a few good wacks with a large sledge hammer but it wont budge.  I would really like to get it a little wider so I don't run over my corn.
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Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 30 May 2012 at 11:17am
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I was trying to remember what we would do with ours (D-14 and 17) back in the day... but maybe they had not been setting so long and 'stuck together' as much sorry I do not hav any good hints, or better than you are doing.
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Posted By: GBACBFan
Date Posted: 30 May 2012 at 12:16pm
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Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 30 May 2012 at 1:22pm
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Take the bolts out. Put smaller ones in, don't tighten them tight. Drive it over plowed ground. It might help to loosen it up. If the axle has a bolt hole showing out of the tube, I made a fixture to bolt to it and use a hyd jack. HTH Tracy Martin ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: WC7610
Date Posted: 30 May 2012 at 1:33pm
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I was trying to remember what we would do with ours (D-14 and 17)
Seems like on the D 17, you put a bolt on the spindle somehow and turned the steering wheel and the force from the tie rod slid it in/out (would sure have to be loose)? maybe I'm dreaming. ------------- Thanks Most Bad Government has grown out of Too Much Government- Thomas Jefferson |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 30 May 2012 at 1:48pm
| Yes, if everything is loose that tecnique would work, you are not dreaming. I do remember using that way of changing the front... but power steering or steering by 'armstrong' is not enough if there is any thing sticking. |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 30 May 2012 at 4:28pm
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Well I put it back together and I'm going to keep soaking it. I got another tractor I can put the cultivator on, and that way I can keep the B narrow for the veggies! Thanks Guys!
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Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 30 May 2012 at 5:40pm
| RW I used a porta-power on one of mine that had set for years. I left bolts in one side and got it to move then did the other side. I put pressure with the porta-power and one hit with a big hammer and it was moving. |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 30 May 2012 at 5:45pm
If it comes down too it, I have a neighbor with a prota-power that might help me.
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Thad in AR. wrote:Posted By: Glockhead SWMI
Date Posted: 30 May 2012 at 9:41pm
| yep, I used a jack and put pressure on it then smacked it with the BFH! |
Posted By: Chalmersbob
Date Posted: 30 May 2012 at 9:51pm
| The B front axle is different then the D series. The opening is at the top on a B, not on the underside. This allows water to get in and lay there. I have a B the I have been running without any bolts in it for 5 years and nothing has moved. I haven't soaked it lately, but did a lot of soaking years ago. Bob |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2012 at 2:30pm
Well its apart...and nothings broken. |
Posted By: wfmurray
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2012 at 4:02pm
| Looks like your center pin hole is worn like mine was . I got two bushing to go from cat 1 to cat 2 three point hitch and a 7./8 hitch pin and repaired mine . one bushing was not long enough . put bushing on pin and welded stright . squared it all up and filled in axel around bushing. . User hitch pin for it to swivel on ,had big head and could get a good weld./ |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2012 at 4:49pm
| Center hole doesn't look to be worn "its perfectly round" there is a bushing that is worn and I will replace along with a new pin. |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2012 at 2:55pm
| Is there supposed to be a bushing in the axle or has mine been bored out and the bushing been made? |