Hopefully the newly designed AGCO part does the trick, but I did finally find someone making replacements out of aluminum. If you're no longer in warranty these seem like a much better bet.
Turning a muddy logging road into a proper gravel driveway for a rifle range I'm building for myself on 85 acres of pine timber. Lots of box and grader blade (not to mention chainsaw and backhoe) work to get to this point. Today I spread about another 100 ft of recycled concrete. Very...
About $90. Seems completely nuts for a little lump of pot metal but what can you do.
https://parts.agcocorp.com/en_US/c/PIVOT-PLATE/p/ACP0525800?text=ACP0525800
To my surprise my dealer had a replacement bracket in stock -- which I suppose speaks to how common this failure is. Thankfully the replacement is indeed the newer, girthier model with the countersunk bore.
In the AGCO parts catalog I couldn't find a PN for just the bracket, only the whole...
Well, the joystick bracket gremlin has laid low another unsuspecting backhoe owner. I was digging stumps yesterday with the CB85 on my 2760 and the dipper/bucket joystick went all floppy.
I'm calling my dealer first thing Monday morning, but in the hopes of getting myself operational I started...