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The one I have is made by OTC (#6297). the part that slides around the rubber boot on the tie rod end is too narrow for my tractor. Not sure if your's is the same size. The nut on the bottom of the tie rod is a 27mm. You might be able to get a pitman arm puller that will fit. I've had good...

So who here would do this to a Snap On wrench? When the choice is to modify a wrench so you can remove a bolt through an access hole in a bell housing to pull a tranny to replace a throw bearing or pay a tow truck to haul it to a garage where you can pay them it seams pretty clear to me which...

There are a few tricks you can try to separate the tie rod end. You can loosen the nut and then use a floor jack on the nut and lift the front of the tractor up a little and then give the metal the tie rod goes through a whack with a hammer. This usually works well. But advise is to buy a tie...

Here's a picture of the connector. Top to bottom is brown, orange, red, black.

You just needed a little more muscle. :laughing: My problem was that the piles of snow add up around here and by Feb there's no room left. In the past I would have to fire up the dozer to push them deep into the woods. The snow blower is a one shot and your done solution.

The two pieces of steel that are the lower guides for the gate are 14 gauge steel and are 1"x 3 1/2". The gate is also 3 1/2" so when the gate is open there's not much holding it in place. I remade them out of 1/4" aluminum and added 2". Because the lower hopper plate rotates to adjust left...

This is more of a theoretical question but maybe there's reason behind it. So here's the background. Last Sunday I blew the main hydraulic hose coming off the pump on my backhoe. There's two coming out of it and I blew the 3/4" hose. The pump has a female 1" ORB output. Case installs a 1"...

A couple of months ago I picked up a used Herd 750s spreader. It had been left on it's side with fertilizer still in it for some time. I got it for a pretty good price. My original plan was to patch the holes and use it the way it was. But I ended up rebuilding it from the ground up. I...

You wouldn't want the paint to dry any quicker. As it was the Xylene was dry to the touch moments after being applied, almost too fast. If I didn't have a paint gun I would get a HF special but the gun I have is actually a very good gun (Binks M1-G) and in the hands of a pro it's about the...

I highlighted a few spots on your image. In the top circle is the "round tube" the arm is welded to. It looks like the weld (square box) on the arm (the lower circle) broke off. I don't see anything really missing.

I have two of them, one parts and one's my winter plow truck. The 345 is a really good engine but it doesn't make a lot of power. It's not too bad MPGwise. If you're going to buy it for yard use then it'll be fine. It would also make a good truck for an occasional trip to the dump or gravel...

I thought I read something about replacing the 90w oil in a gearbox with a light weight grease. Has anyone tried it on their brush hog (or other attachment gearbox)?

I picked up an old Herd seed/ sand spreader that needs the hopper replaced due to rust. I've been at work since then so haven't had a chance to check to see what gauge steel the metal is but I'm guessing it's about .1". It looks like a 4x8 sheet would be enough material to replace the entire...

Does anyone know a company that sells steel on-line? I'm looking for a couple of pieces of T1 plate 2"x 48". Nobody local sells it and they usually only order stock sheets.

Anyone ever dealt with them? The website name is "National Implement" but they also go by the name "Idaho Implement". I'm guessing is that they just have the attachments shipped from the factory. They sell brands like Tartor, Befco, General, Herd, etc. I'm getting tired of calling local...

I haven't seen much posted on the woods grading scrapers here. I could only find one thread and even then not much information. My original idea was to make one but I really don't have any scrap metal and I'm not sure if it's cost effective to buy all the steel and then build. I'm also...

I got a 40 gallon parts washer from work that was never used. I'm wondering what people use for solvent in them. I've been told everything from name brand water based cleaners to things like diesel and Kerosine. So what do you use and how do you like it? Secondly if I go with a water based...

Has anyone got any experience in welding plastic? I have few plastic repairs I would like to make, nothing critical. I've never tried to do it and have no idea what equipment works best.

So I knew traction control was going to be mandatory in 2012 but it looks like stability control is also going to be included on every vehicle. My Subaru has traction control (maybe stability too) and I find when it comes on it robs too much power in most conditions. Usually though it happens...

I'm looking to get an assortment of spare grease fittings. I have some SAE ones but no metric ones. It looks like most large metric sets come with 6mm, 8mm, and 10mm sizes. Is there one size that's used the most? I would rather not have 50 fittings that I'll never use sitting on a shelf...

I finally got around to making brackets to mount some lights to the ROPS. I wanted something that wouldn't add any height but was strong enough to take a hit by branches. This is what I came up with. It's 1/8" diamond plate steel. Now I need to figure out how I want to mount the rear light...

I had a chance to get a Mastercool hydraulic flaring tool for a lot less than the price of a new one ($100). Since I needed and didn't have the tool to make the bubble type ends on brake lines I bought it. It comes with the dies to make brake lines and some gas lines. While looking around...

How to chop wood without messing around. [VIDEO] Where do you get wood that splits that easy?

My last chain that had been sharpened to almost the point where it had to be thrown away started stretching real quick while using it. I didn't think much about it and just tossed it and put on a new chain. The bar had the usual oily wood stuck in the bar that I cleaned out. Now I'm not...

A good friend is thinking of buying a Honda walk behind snow blower so I started looking at them (not that I need another blower). Then this caught my eye. Honda Power Equipment - HS1336IAS It's a Hybrid (24volt electric/ 13hp gas) snow blower. It retails for $7999.00. Wow. Makes...

Ford F250. Built Ford Fast? - Yahoo! Autos I don't know if I would want to do 182mph in any truck. But if you really need to get your cattle to the slaughter house and anything less than 3 miles per minute just wont do then you now have the answer. 182 mph that痴 how fast Hajek Motorsports...

Has anyone used a PEX clamp ring to repair an airline instead of a hose clamp? I never have much luck with small hose clamps and it always seams like the hose clamp gets caught on anything you drag it near. I was thinking of trying the copper rings that you just squeeze but wasn't sure if they...

Well they got me, lol. They have a cheap chain sharpener, was somewhere around $40 if I remember correctly. Well today it was $19.99. I have files that cost more than that. I probably threw away $20 bucks but who knows. I'll get a chance to try it out next week.

Anyone ever think about making wheel weights out of sheet metal and cement? I was thinking that if I made two circles out of 1/8" plate. By drilling holes that are the same as the wheel where the weights bolt on simple threaded rod could be used to bolt the 1/8" plate to the wheel and it could...

Since this is a tractor forum and a number of members here actually farm to some degree I thought I would ask this question. Has (or does) anyone ever thought of making their own diesel by planting soybean or rapeseed (or some other plant)?

I finally got around to bring my 2000 Tundra to the dealer for the frame inspection. I knew the cross member that holds the spare tire on was weak but the frame was strong. A couple of years ago I pulled the bed and power washed off all the scaly rust and then used some commercial rust...

Well I'm thankful that it's all but over. Any snow we get now will melt in no time. I spent a little time with the grease gun hitting all the zerks and then spraying fluid film on the places the paint is gone. I did come up with a simple little mod to make moving the blower around with the...

In the future I'm planning on adding two remotes but not sure if I'll have time to do it this summer. I looked at the Hydralink but it seams to me it would be a waste if I'm just going to add TnT down the road. I was thinking that I could use a top cylinder from a TnT set up and connect the...

I figure since we have a "must have" and "wish list" threads going on why not tell everyone what tools you plan on getting so the rest of us can drool. Well here's my next big purchase: My father passed away last year and when he was a teenager he found my grandfather under his car. My...

Does anyone know who currently makes the TSC countryline boxblade? Or how much do they weigh? I'm on the harry edge for free shipping from Ken but this spring one of the attachments I plan on buying is a boxblade. Since I can't do much because of all the snow outside I figure I can do some...

After snow blowing at night I realized that the lights work pretty well on the front but there is no light what so ever behind the tractor. So the other day I ordered some lights from the place I order parts for my Case Backhoe. The lights are made by Hobbs. They are a extra wide angle short...

Well it wasn't a hole but due to the cold weather the pressure dropped a little. While driving today I noticed the tire was squatting a little more than normal but instead of going back to air it up I figured since all I was doing was using the tire chains on the rear tire to ruff up the...

I have a couple of older chainsaws, a sthil and a Partner that I was trying to identify. Someone posted a website that listed pretty much every chainsaw ever made. I thought I saved it but I can't find it and I can't find the thread that had the link. Does anyone have it?

Does anyone use a Cant, Peavey, or Timber jack on log while out in the woods? I've used a Peavey to load log onto a band mill but they weren't too long, 12' maybe. But what I would like to know is after you limb a tree are they useful to rotate a tree to help get a choker chain around it? Or...

I've always wanted a plasma cutter but just didn't have enough projects to justify the cost of one that would cut what I would want. I wanted to be able to cut over 1" on occasion for things like tooth shanks on buckets, etc. Well after reading some of the posts here and over at the Pirate 4x4...

So I mounted the subframe back on the tractor yesterday and put the blower on. Today I connected up the hydraulic lines, they are color coded yet the tractor has white and the blower chute has green (the rest match up). There are 5 hydraulic lines, two from the lift cylinder and three from the...

So I'm looking for advice on which chain type would be best. My driveway is gravel but I'll be parking in the garage on cement that was poured this summer. I have the R1 (Ag) tires so I think the regular ladder type will just fall between the lugs. So my choices are: Duo-grip from...

So I had a free afternoon and thought wouldn't it be nice to put the air compressor out of the way. So I spend an hour building a corner shelf, screwed, glued, and supported that's a little over 8' off the ground. I still need to wire it up, bolt it down, and plumb up the air drier. I can...

After reading the sharpener threads it's got me thinking about upgrading from a Dremel with a grinding stone to an Oregon sharpener. I rarely take my chain off the saw, occasionally to make sure the bar oil hole in the bar is clear, to occasionally flip the bar, and to replace the chain. That...

Well for years now I've been reading and looking at all the pictures of other members projects so I figure I should repay all of you who've shared and entertained me. I'm close to finishing a 28 by 32 Gambriel garage (I call it a man cave, lol). I would call it a barn but my GF didn't want it...

Santa dropped of my Christmas present a little early this year. It was shipped with the front blower sub-frame attached so I had to remove it and install the grill guard. Chalk up another one from Brady.

Does anyone know how to tell if my 357xp is the EPA version? I'm guessing it's not but it makes a difference when it comes to the piston and cylinder. I'm not up to date on the whole EPA thing but thought it just had to do with a catalytic converter in the muffler. I pulled the muffler and...

Not sure if any other Lowes stores are doing this but the local one decided that the 5'x150' rolls of 6x6 wire mesh for concrete are too unsafe to keep on the top level of the shelving. Normally they sell for $120ish but they have them on clearance for $48. Unfortunately they didn't have any...

Has anyone got a chance to see this saw in action? It looks like it could be a replacement for the 372xp. My current 357xp is starting to show it's age. I'm not really set on husky over other brands but I do have some spare parts, like a couple of new bars (that don't fit my 357xp) to it...

So I'm down to my last decision before I order my tractor. I'm thinking that it may be worth while to get at least one remote. I really don't know what I'd use it for but things do change so it's best to get it now and have it if needed. I already have a log splitter so that's one option I...

Can anyone tell me the differences between the three different 'dash' models for the Grand Ls? I know the -3 has a swivel seat and a different (electric PTO) but that's about all I know. I'm planning on buying a new 4240 but came across a 5440 with less than 20 hours on it for a little less...

I've been getting serious now about buying a Kubota for the last 6 months or so. Since I still haven't decided exatly want I want I have been talking to friends and coworkers about the local dealers. Most didn't have either a good or bad opinions but I did get two bad stories. The first bad...