I have a piece of equipment that has a dump bed. The bed is held on by three 7/8" pins. The two on the back form a hinge and the one in the front is connected to a hydraulic cylinder.
I have removed the bed and want to build another bed for it that will utilize the same mounting points. The new bed will be rather heavy and the machine is on rough terrain all the time. I could torch the holes but they would not be perfect and there would be slop and i am afraid the bed would bounce around and wear out the pins. Is there some sort of weld on bushing that is maybe 3/8-1/2 thick with a 7/8 hole that I could weld on to the mounting brackets for the new bed? I have seen things like this but I don't know what they are called and if you can buy them off the shelf or if the ones I saw were a custom fab type deal.
I have removed the bed and want to build another bed for it that will utilize the same mounting points. The new bed will be rather heavy and the machine is on rough terrain all the time. I could torch the holes but they would not be perfect and there would be slop and i am afraid the bed would bounce around and wear out the pins. Is there some sort of weld on bushing that is maybe 3/8-1/2 thick with a 7/8 hole that I could weld on to the mounting brackets for the new bed? I have seen things like this but I don't know what they are called and if you can buy them off the shelf or if the ones I saw were a custom fab type deal.