Bucket Pins

[jake98]

Wedge, I took Egon's advice and bought hardened bolts. I put two nuts with a lock washer between on them.
Jake

 

[Soundguy]

That'l probably last a good long time.

soundguy

 

[Egon]

Again.. you may be wrong.

Yes I have been wrong. Fortunately it's not the first time nor will it be the last.

The tractors built during the forty's and fifty's will definitely outlast today's modern tractor and are much easier to repair.

The land fills of the future will be overwhelmed with the non metallic disposable tractor parts of today. Many years in the future archaeologists may even excavate these sites and make comments about all those tractor parts found!

 

[Soundguy]

I sure agree with that... all the rubber and fiberglass.. and plastic composite parts i see on new tractors really makes me wonder just how durable aor locatable those parts will be in 60-70 years!

soundguy

 

[Egon]

Don't even think of flying in the NEW BOEING PLANE!

 

[sugarmaple]

If this question has answers posted elsewhere, please advise...

The bucket on my old woods bh 9000 is pretty sloppy. Haven't pulled it apart yet, but the parts sheet seems to indicate that there are no bushings. Rather, the pin fits into the tubing (defacto bushing) on the dipper and the wear occurs on either the pin, tubing or both. Wondering what others might consider the right course of action to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance!

 

[john_bud]

If this question has answers posted elsewhere, please advise...

The bucket on my old woods bh 9000 is pretty sloppy. Haven't pulled it apart yet, but the parts sheet seems to indicate that there are no bushings. Rather, the pin fits into the tubing (defacto bushing) on the dipper and the wear occurs on either the pin, tubing or both. Wondering what others might consider the right course of action to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance!

A) live with it
B) replace pin only
C)cut off the old tube, weld on a new larger one, line bore it straight, cut it for replaceable bushings, install bushings get a new pin and hone to fit.

A= free
B= cheap
C= 4-500 bucks if you take it apart and bring the pieces to a machine shop. Could be more, probably not less.

jb

 

[sugarmaple]

My long suffering neighbor, a machinist, just experienced the injection molding business he had worked at for 35 years shutting down. His severance included a Bridgeport, lathe and smallish surface grinder. The 4330 lifted these off the trailer, much to my surprise.

The question is whether I could reasonably attempt to line bore with the new "home shop tools", or how would a shop normally do this? I am thinking a large radial drill press (that went to NJ) but can imagine jigging it up on the Bridgeport too. Any ideas? Thanks

 

[Egon]

Do the line boring in a machine shop and then weld the entire assembly onto the bucket arms.

 

[5030tinkerer]

A) live with it
B) replace pin only
C)cut off the old tube, weld on a new larger one, line bore it straight, cut it for replaceable bushings, install bushings get a new pin and hone to fit.

A= free
B= cheap
C= 4-500 bucks if you take it apart and bring the pieces to a machine shop. Could be more, probably not less.

jb

Resurrecting an old thread here...

I recently picked up an old IH175C crawler loader that someone welded (!) the pins in on in several places. Two of the four bucket pins that used to be 2"+ in diameter are now down to 3/4" or so. Wow, what a little grease could have prevented!

Plans are to cut the old pins out with a plasma cutter, weld what is nearly certainly an oblong mess into near circles over multiple passes, use a die grinder to get them near circular, and pop in new greased pins. When time permits (hopefully over the winter), I may mock up my old Shopsmith in a line bore rig and do it right. Of course, if someone has sources for new bushings/pin combinations, I could be convinced to go that route out of the gate. Ideas?