goneandbrokeit
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Hi, Just wondering if anyone with top & tilt thinks it adds addition stress to the 3pt attachment points? Here is why I ask...
1 - Considering T&T for use with L3830 and box blade.
2 - I broke one of the "rings" that the hold the attachment pin for my right side lower hitch arm ( this is a casting that I believe would require the tractor to be split to be "officially fixed". I would like opinions on the strength of the repair that was done and if it would hold up to the T&T.
Here is the back story. While switching over from BH90 to box blade, I put the pin in place but neglected to bolt it in. Set the top link short and the scarifiers down and had it aggressively tilted. Went to work till I noticed the BB was not going down, get off and look and notice the sway link is bent almost 90 degrees and hung up on the BH frame.
As I am scracthing my head I notice the broken off piece of casting and the pin laying on the ground. Dumbfounded, I wander back to the barn where I see the bolt on the work bench, case of faulty owner not the tractor's fault.
Around this time my 80 year old neighbor rolls up on his golf cart. After a the usual chit chat, I say "I am having a bad day" and hand him the broken casting. He rolls it over in his hand says "Where's this from?", I tell him, he looks under the tractor and tells me I have a load of trouble as if I didn't know.
Tells me probably alot of $ to get that fixed, but hold off he may know someone who could take a look. And he goes on his way, only to show up that evening to see if he could have the part to show to his friend.
The next moring he stops by around 8 o clock and ask me what time I got up, I tell him 6 and he says that's early but I've been up since 4. Tells me he couldn't sleep because he was thinking about my tractor and the sad expression on my face. He hands me the broken casting that he has milled and drilled to resemble the lower half of a connecting rod along with stainless steel bolts and spacers machined to match.
He then vice gripped it in place, commands me to drill to holes which he promptly taps and bolts it on. Tells me I am set to go. It is kinda like looking at the bottom of a connecting rod ( By the next week he had sway bar straightened and and sliding almost like new).
The repair has held up to moderate box blade use and use with the rotary cutter. Any opinions as to the strength of this repair and if T&T would stress it?
It seems like the bolt that was originally left out takes alot off the load anyway, this part of the casting was not damaged in anyway.
Sorry for the long post.
1 - Considering T&T for use with L3830 and box blade.
2 - I broke one of the "rings" that the hold the attachment pin for my right side lower hitch arm ( this is a casting that I believe would require the tractor to be split to be "officially fixed". I would like opinions on the strength of the repair that was done and if it would hold up to the T&T.
Here is the back story. While switching over from BH90 to box blade, I put the pin in place but neglected to bolt it in. Set the top link short and the scarifiers down and had it aggressively tilted. Went to work till I noticed the BB was not going down, get off and look and notice the sway link is bent almost 90 degrees and hung up on the BH frame.
As I am scracthing my head I notice the broken off piece of casting and the pin laying on the ground. Dumbfounded, I wander back to the barn where I see the bolt on the work bench, case of faulty owner not the tractor's fault.
Around this time my 80 year old neighbor rolls up on his golf cart. After a the usual chit chat, I say "I am having a bad day" and hand him the broken casting. He rolls it over in his hand says "Where's this from?", I tell him, he looks under the tractor and tells me I have a load of trouble as if I didn't know.
Tells me probably alot of $ to get that fixed, but hold off he may know someone who could take a look. And he goes on his way, only to show up that evening to see if he could have the part to show to his friend.
The next moring he stops by around 8 o clock and ask me what time I got up, I tell him 6 and he says that's early but I've been up since 4. Tells me he couldn't sleep because he was thinking about my tractor and the sad expression on my face. He hands me the broken casting that he has milled and drilled to resemble the lower half of a connecting rod along with stainless steel bolts and spacers machined to match.
He then vice gripped it in place, commands me to drill to holes which he promptly taps and bolts it on. Tells me I am set to go. It is kinda like looking at the bottom of a connecting rod ( By the next week he had sway bar straightened and and sliding almost like new).
The repair has held up to moderate box blade use and use with the rotary cutter. Any opinions as to the strength of this repair and if T&T would stress it?
It seems like the bolt that was originally left out takes alot off the load anyway, this part of the casting was not damaged in anyway.
Sorry for the long post.
