4310 Weight loss, a.k.a. use grade5 weight bolts

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PerryWhite

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Location
central illinois
Tractor
JD 4310 4WD turf tires
On Wednesday I was driving over to my Deere dealer to
get a $0.13 bolt to hold my control panel on my right fender on my 4310. I noticed one was missing after installing my
3rd SCV kit. Anyway, my wife called me on the cell phone
saying the neighbor down the road 3 miles had some logs that he wanted milled up. So I called him and stopped by to
look on the way home. Since it was a nice day, I drove
my pickup and trailer over to his house and had him take
me back to get the 4310 with 430 loader so we could load the logs. When we finished, I took off back home with the tractor
and he came to get me so I could take the pickup and trailer home again. When we got back to his house, there along
the side of the road were two 60 pound wheel weights from
my left rear wheel. Since about 3 hours earlier, I had just
put the two right wheel weights back on, I thought that I
hadn't tightened the bolts good enough. Not so. they
were fine. Then I started to think back and remembered
back in April when I bought the 4310 that I couldn't find
any grade 5 or grade 8 0.5 inch carriage bolts for one
side of the tractor and I ended up using grade 2 instead
thinking that they would probably be fine. I later picked up grade 5 bolts but I forgot to swap them out. I am
sure glad that no one was coming down the road when
I lost the weights as it could have sure done a lot of
damage to the underside of someone's car.
The broken bolts were still in the holes on the weights
and I have attached a picture of what was left of those two bolts.
 

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   / 4310 Weight loss, a.k.a. use grade5 weight bolts #2  
Wow! who'da thunk it?

Thanks for the heads up!
 
   / 4310 Weight loss, a.k.a. use grade5 weight bolts
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#3  
This kind of weight loss is sure a lot quicker than that
Atkins' diet. Besides, I like bread. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
   / 4310 Weight loss, a.k.a. use grade5 weight bolts #4  
I'm glad you didn't lose your weights or cause an accident of any type...just curious, do you think the grade 2 bolts broke because you overtorqued them? 0.5 inch is a pretty good size bolt but I have broken half inch wheel studs on a Ford pickup by using too much leverage.
 
   / 4310 Weight loss, a.k.a. use grade5 weight bolts
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#5  
Not sure if I overtorqued them or not as I didn't use a torque wrench. They had been on there since late April, early May.
This was the first time however, that I had it going down
the road in the C range at full speed as prior to that it hadn't
ever left my property of 6 acres while on the road. Anyway, I have grade 5 bolts on there now.
 
 
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