namyessam
Gold Member
start soaking the square headed bolts that fasten the drive lugs to the rim on the power adjustment rail with PB blaster or equivilent. They can be rusted and difficult to remove. I could not get one loose and was lucky that I was able to remove the rim clamp and turn the rim past the stuck clamp and install the second drive lug on the opposite side to move the tires out then reinstall the rim clamp. I used anti sieze on all the rim clamp nuts since I had to cut them off and did not want to go through that again. I still have not got that one drive lug loose but have no reason to move it yet.
This is the instructions I mentioned earlier in the thread. The original intent of the pavt rims is you loosen the rim clamps, move the stops and shift into gear and let out the clutch to shift the rims in or out to the stop you preset without jacking up the tractor. I jacked up the rear end of the tractor and rotated them by hand for better control since I could not get one of the stops loose. There should be a stop on both sides of the rim clamp except if the rim is all the way in or all the way out and then the ends of the rails on the rim act a stop.