PerryWhite
Silver Member
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.
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.