Loader BX23 bucket pin removal.

[pipefitter]

Embarrassingly, I never greased the pins on the bucket. The grease zirk is on the bottom, and it lubes the pin from the center. I never noticed it. The the bucket has some "slop" in it, so I bought a pair of pins, (PN 75532-58740), from a local dealer. I've removed the grease fittings and been spraying some kroil around the pins in an attempt to loosen things up, but they seem pretty stuck. I wondered if anyone had removed theirs?

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

I don't claim to be smart, but I can't see how sloppy pins can be stuck. Do you have a picture?

It sounds like you're saying they won't slide out.

 

[kevinj]

Did you remove the pin retainers?

 

[pipefitter]

I don't claim to be smart, but I can't see how sloppy pins can be stuck. Do you have a picture?

It sounds like you're saying they won't slide out.

The pins are stuck. The slop is where they attach to the loader itself. Apparently, they are seized in the bucket, and have worn the attachment points at the loader. I will get some photos.

 

[pipefitter]

Did you remove the pin retainers?

Yep, they're gone.

 

[leonz]

The pins are bound up on both sides of the bucket weldments UGH.

You are going to have to have the bucket weldments and the cylinder
rods line bored and new bushings installed.

Short of hiring a welder to come and use a rosebud torch to heat the
cylinder rod eye and use a bronze punch to drive the pins out of the
cylinder rod eye and bucket weldments or having a couple of carbon
dioxide fire extinguishers on hand to chill the pins to make them shrink
after you empty one fire extinguisher on each pin and driving the pin out
with a 4 pound hammer I do not see much else working for you.

Better to just send the mule to the kubota veterinarians(UGH-I hate my local dealers)
and have them remove the pins and line bore the cylinder rods and bucket weldments
as replacing them will also cost a great deal of money.

I would get an estimate for having the cylinders and bucket line bored before you do
anything else as the damage done is irriversable with out line boring.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

It sounds like the bucket itself might be fine if you could get the pins out, but then you would have to deal with the cylinder's egg-shaped bore. If you could get the pins out and replace the cylinder rod, you might save some loot and avoid line-boring.

The rod is about $260 at Coleman's. You could rebuild the cylinder while you have it apart. The kit is $108.

I had two stuck pins on my mower, and I tried rigging up a large pulley puller to push them out. It didn't work for me, but maybe it would work for you after some heating and so on.