Any ideas about this crown nut?

[Luke'sScreenName]

I found this small sheared-off crown nut in my driveway today. Any ideas on what it came from?

This is an area where multiple machines travel including:
Kubota tractor,
-Hustler ztr,
-Deere branded push mower,
-all my tractor Implements,
-multiple automobiles,
-kids stuff like bikes and metal tonka toys I scrounge from the dump.
-multiple small engines things like chainsaws, trimmers, etc.

If it needed a crown nut it's probably important but I don't know where to start. Help!

 

[Tjdux]

Check the steering linkages and suspension on the cars and tractors would be my first guess.

 

[Cataclysm]

I found this small sheared-off crown nut in my driveway today. Any ideas on what it came from?

This is an area where multiple machines travel including:
Kubota tractor,
-Hustler ztr,
-Deere branded push mower,
-all my tractor Implements,
-multiple automobiles,
-kids stuff like bikes and metal tonka toys I scrounge from the dump.
-multiple small engines things like chainsaws, trimmers, etc.

If it needed a crown nut it's probably important but I don't know where to start. Help!

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Looks like a crown nut off a tie rod end. Seeing the bent nail or bent welding rod keeper I'd say (hope) its off farm machinery. No doubt the tie rod is going to come out now so check all the steering tie rods closely.

Maybe off a sickle bar mower as well.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Ok, will do. :thumbsup:

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Nope, not off a tie rod. FWIW those were a fair amount bigger on all my machines.

 

[Tjdux]

Nope, not off a tie rod. FWIW those were a fair amount bigger on all my machines.

They will be smaller on cars than big machines i think. Time to jack up the grocery getters

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Everything checked out except the wife's minivan! And she has the kids! Ive been trying to reach her on cell. She bad about answering. At least that's what I'm telling myself...

Edit I talked to her. I'll walk her through checking before she drives anywhere.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

That wasn't it. Any other ideas?

 

[Tjdux]

Maybe double check the wife's van when she gets home just to be sure. Ive seen them on odd stuff too like shift linkages but honestly it may be really hard to find where that came from.

Is your driveway gravel? It may have been in the gravel the entire time. Could be from a visitors car... could be something weird up on machine you own. Do you have an atv? They use them too. You mentioned implements....

Basically you found the needle and now you have to locate which haystack is short a needle.

 

[aczlan]

Check the linkage on a zero-turn controls. The ones I've seen have had crown nuts around that size to attach the linkage to a lever.

Aaron Z

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Yes, every haystack needs its needle! Lol. The driveway is older asphalt so it hasn't been there forever but I wouldn't necessarily notice it right away.

I did double check the tie rods on the Sienna but will look at the rest of the undercarriage on Tuesday.

Unfortunately, no ATVs.

I will look at the ZTR control lever linkages as recommended.

I just wish it wasn't a crown (castle) nut.

 

[aczlan]

With it being that small of a nut, I doubt it's a tie rod end for anything larger than a go-kart or a lawn mower. More likely something like the control levers on a zero-turn. It looks fairly rusty so probably not something overly new.

Aaron Z

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

I just had a thought!

I few weeks ago a visiting in-law backed over my kids' older radio flyer wagon. I bet the steering yolk thingy used a castle nut! It was definitely old enough to have some corrosion (it lives outside year-round) and the crush certainly could've broken the bolt.

I will still check the things recommended above.

 

[Spanner]

I few weeks ago a visiting in-law backed over my kids' older radio flyer wagon...

Tragic! It seemed we saw those little wagons in almost every US TV show but never could make out why they were so iconic or the name?

Is it repairable?

Maybe you could start a restoration thread?

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Tragic! It seemed we saw those little wagons in almost every US TV show but never could make out why they were so iconic or the name?

Is it repairable?

Maybe you could start a restoration thread?

Lol. No, definitely not repairable. And by older I mean cica 2012. :laughing:

Their certainly are people who restore and cherish the originals (from the 1950s?) but now you can fine Chinese made wagons with 'radio flyer' decals.

 

[Spanner]

Oh well, thanks. I hope you solve "The Mystery of the Broken Crown Nut Stud".