I then came down to the garage for some maintenance on poor Little Baby Fergie ...
A few weeks ago I was out watering and was backing up on uneven terrain and it started to spin, I put it in 4X4 still wouldn't go, locked in the rear axle ... Still spun ... Then I noticed both front tires were pointed out! My left side tie rod end had popped out, the nut was missing ... I had to finish ... So I did a "field repair!
The threads were already buggered up, so I grabbed a few washers and some wire and tied it together ... And ordered two new tie rod ends, as both were pretty tore up from brush hogging over multi-flora ros
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I also stuck a piece of wire though the right side one, as that didn't have anything securing the castle but, not sure if it ever had one, or if I snatched it out while brush hogging ... ? Does your have a cotter pin in it?
The tie rods don't come with new nuts, washer or cotter pin, they are separate ...
The old one was not really wore out, but I didn't mind tossing it in the trash!
Got both sides replaced, and used a hypodermic needle on the end of my grease gun to give both 4 pumps of grease ...
Then greased the rest of the TLB, as I have a few pins that need me to move the boom to get them to take grease, .. . Then switched back to the QH and ready to water now that the totes are almost filled ...