Top link fro CK30

[TForan]

I bent my top link and I need a new one. Is it a Kioti part or is it a generic part I can get other places.

Thanks!

Tony

 

[DirtHauler]

Generic; just match the min/max length and the "ball" end pin size and you should be good to go.

 

[TForan]

Thanks,DH
I picked one up at TSC.

 

[dfkrug]

I notice the CK30 stock toplinks are wimpier than the
$20 generic aftermkt toplinks I have purchased. Go
figure.

 

[KiotiJohn]

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$20 generic aftermkt toplinks I have purchased. Go
figure. )</font>
That was something I noticed on most of the new tractors I tried when I was first looking for a new tractor. Like you said, go figure.
John

 

[HODAK]

Shows what I know. My top link is heavier than the one that was on the old Ford. I use a couple for different implements to avoid adjusting all the time. How do you bend one?

 

[TForan]

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I can bend anything!
I had the threaded part out quite a ways and must have bent it when I was backing up. The TSC link is heavy duty and it's only 18 bucks.

 

[Highbeam]

Should be easiest to bend (buckle really) when the TL is extended all the way and resisting a large compressive load like pulling a subsoiler and hitting a root.

Backing into a low stump with a boxblade should pull on the toplink and not bend it. That is a good way to bend your lower 3ph arms and stabilizers though.

 

[dfkrug]

The CK30 stock toplink is only 3/4" diameter at the
bottom of the threads. I have seen many buckled ones;
I am sure this happens using a box blade and hitting
a rocks or roots. A hyd toplink is usually 1.125"
diameter.

 

[Highbeam]

A bent OEM toplink makes a great excuse to get a hydraulic one......

 

[TForan]

Mine would of been fine if I didn't have it out so far on the threads. All this was new to me last April. !50 hrs later I have done more work than I could have ever imagined. Sorry for the typo.

 

[KiotiJohn]

I bent mine early on because one of the pins came out of the left hitch arm at the tractor, and I didn't realize before I backed up that the arm was going to fall off. When it came off, backing with the box blade, the top link bent rather nicely. Most likely, an even larger one would have bent under those circumstances!

John