plow bolts

[Farmwithjunk]

Thanks for that info. The shins came in and the whole looks oblong so I think it takes the #3 clipped you mentioned. I also got to talk to someone who knew alittle more. The store near me is new, just a year. They don't stock any tillage stuff but another store not too far away does. I will call down to them to see if they have the bolts.

The #3's are the regular "flat headed carraige bolts" you described earlier in the thread. The "clipped head" bolts are the oblong (oval) shaped heads. It does indeed sound like you need clipped head bolts. If you have ANY trouble finding them, PM me. I've got buckets full of them in the shop. Be more'n happy to send you a few.

 

[ericjeeper]

No matter how tempting it is.. When using an air impact gun.. Do not put yer thumb on the head of the bolt to prevent it from spinning.. Trust me and everyone else, that will admit to have done it, ONCE and only .. it will cut the finger.. LOL

 

[Farmwithjunk]

No matter how tempting it is.. When using an air impact gun.. Do not put yer thumb on the head of the bolt to prevent it from spinning.. Trust me and everyone else, that will admit to have done it, ONCE and only .. it will cut the finger.. LOL

OUCH! Plow bolts wear to an EXTREMELY sharp edge. I can only imagine what they'd do to a finger.

 

[Ford850]

In case you have trouble removing the old bolts, you can cut the nuts and they'll spin right off. I don't have a torch so I use this method if I want to salvage the bolt to take with me when replacing. I use an angle grinder with cutting wheel or even a hack saw, cutting a section of the nut, either spit it with a cut, or cut right up along the threads slabbing a section off. Then the nust spind right off even if the bolt threads are 90% rusted away. I can cut them and remove the nuts in less than a minute, and salvage the bolt for comparison.
You might not need it in this case but it comes in handy working with these old plows.

 

[Eric_Phillips]

Thanks for all the help. I got the shins changed today. The top bolts came off with a breaker bar but the bottom ones are almost inaccessable so they got the sawzall treatment. Also the old shins had plow bolts but the new ones I got from TSC took clipped head bolts. I found them at my tractor dealer. The top bolts were 7/16" x 1.5" and the bottoms were 7/16" x 1". Here are a couple of pics with the new shins.