Just joined the forum to pick your brains about a backhoe mounting problem I'm having with a new BX25. When I follow the mounting instructions and raise the rear tires to insert the mounting pins, the one on the left side goes in perfectly, but I always have to struggle with the one on the right. It goes through the outside tang on the backhoe and the tractor frame just fine, but there's interference trying to get it through the inner mounting tang on the backhoe. Nothing I do - tilting the tractor with the stabilizers, "yawing" by swinging the backhoe, or raising/lowering the rear end - seems to help. I always have to force that pin in/out.
It seems like it might be a slight misalignment in the geometry on my machine. Has anyone run into this before? Any thoughts as to whether or not boring out the inside tang on the backhoe frame would be an OK solution?
Thanks in advance for any help.
It seems like it might be a slight misalignment in the geometry on my machine. Has anyone run into this before? Any thoughts as to whether or not boring out the inside tang on the backhoe frame would be an OK solution?
Thanks in advance for any help.