Center pin repair pricing

logman81 · November 11, 2018, 10:56:41 AM

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logman81 · November 11, 2018, 11:00:00 AM

Flyingpig · November 12, 2018, 08:41:16 AM

Good call on doing it now, line boring is expensive. We're the bearings missing any pieces or broken? Usually with spherical bearings they break up at the end of their life cycle.

mike_belben · November 12, 2018, 09:16:06 AM

Nice

mike_belben · November 12, 2018, 09:22:58 AM

Btw, i recently stopped at a tractor shop about something and they had a simple angle iron frame in 2 of the bays on the concrete that looked like a basic sawmill bed. One had screw thread jackstands with roller feet that travelled on the track and the other had a roller carriage with jackstands on it. There was hold down tabs for strapping anything you wanted in place and an eye for a comalong to winch whichever end you wanted apart. Absolutely brilliant. Guy said it made splitting and rejoining a tractor a one hand job. Just flip the comealong and pall the carriage back.

Ill build one when i have a shop.

logman81 · November 12, 2018, 08:12:30 PM

No broken bearings and the bores were still very good so I caught it in time. But I have to get the holes to line up everything is tight now and tough to move.

Flyingpig · November 13, 2018, 12:14:54 PM

That's a good sign! It'll be just like brand new again.

logman81 · November 13, 2018, 01:05:29 PM

Yes basically the whole machine has been rebuilt.

logman81 · November 14, 2018, 12:23:12 PM

Any tricks for lining up the holes so I can put the pins in?

mike_belben · November 14, 2018, 04:20:35 PM

Ratchet straps or chain and binder, chisels or wedges to get things pushed up or down as needed. Spud wrench or whatever home brewing it takes for drift pinning final alignment. I grind a generous taper on every pin i can so it becomes a drift of its own.

Wood makes a decent dowel. Belt sand a stick to a decent fit by hitting the dark spots wherever it binds. Knock in wood drift pin then knock it through with the real one. Cut the wood one off with sawzall every few inches if needed for clearance to remove.

logman81 · November 16, 2018, 02:18:14 PM

Thanks for all your help everyone it's back together and no more play in the center pins! Now waiting for the new fuel tank to be made and then I can paint and install that. Then replace a couple planetary brass pins and put the winch back on with new cable.

logman81 · January 05, 2019, 03:52:31 PM

So skidder has been working out well since the rebuild recently pulls wood great but I think it's time to up grade!

nativewolf · January 06, 2019, 08:54:51 AM

Quote from: mike_belben on November 12, 2018, 09:22:58 AM
Btw, i recently stopped at a tractor shop about something and they had a simple angle iron frame in 2 of the bays on the concrete that looked like a basic sawmill bed. One had screw thread jackstands with roller feet that travelled on the track and the other had a roller carriage with jackstands on it. There was hold down tabs for strapping anything you wanted in place and an eye for a comalong to winch whichever end you wanted apart. Absolutely brilliant. Guy said it made splitting and rejoining a tractor a one hand job. Just flip the comealong and pall the carriage back.

Ill build one when i have a shop.

Picture?

logman81 · January 06, 2019, 11:00:57 AM

PM me

Jeff · January 06, 2019, 03:08:39 PM

PM sent.

logman81 · January 06, 2019, 03:12:38 PM

Do what you have to do lol!

Jeff · January 06, 2019, 03:30:10 PM

Is that really what you want to say to me?

mike_belben · January 06, 2019, 10:18:27 PM

Quote from: nativewolf on January 06, 2019, 08:54:51 AM
Quote from: mike_belben on November 12, 2018, 09:22:58 AM
Btw, i recently stopped at a tractor shop about something and they had a simple angle iron frame in 2 of the bays on the concrete that looked like a basic sawmill bed. One had screw thread jackstands with roller feet that travelled on the track and the other had a roller carriage with jackstands on it. There was hold down tabs for strapping anything you wanted in place and an eye for a comalong to winch whichever end you wanted apart. Absolutely brilliant. Guy said it made splitting and rejoining a tractor a one hand job. Just flip the comealong and pall the carriage back.

Ill build one when i have a shop.
Picture?

Didnt take one but google "tractor splitting stands" image tab

Heres one

Master Splitting Kit for Tractor Clutch | REPXPERT Site GB

logman81 · January 07, 2019, 06:24:01 PM

That's a very nice setup be easy to make.

nativewolf · January 08, 2019, 06:44:32 AM

@mike_belben Always amazed at what people do and take pictures of and then put on these interwebs. Silly rabbit should have looked on google himself.

Maybe one day if the company grows up some more and I can find another mechanic I trust (frankly losing Warren has really depressed me) then we'll have to have one of those there thangs.