BX Quick Question - Need someone to look at something

[r0GuE]

I had my three point torn up to hook my bagger on for the summer. Now I need to restore it for my back blade. One simple quick question.

In reference to the two vertical links that drop down from the lifting arm, and hook on to the two horizontal links. Where they attach, there are short pins that pass through the horizontal links and are pinned with cotter pins to retain them.

The question is, do the short pins go in from the outside toward the inside, and the cotter pins then would be toward the center of the tractor? Or do they go in from the inside toward the outside, and theus the cotter pin would be on the outboard sides of the tractor.

Perhaps it doesn't matter, but I want to put it back the way it was.

Does my description make sense?

 

[JWE]

Rogue

I just took my bagger off yesterday and I have the retaining pin toward the center of the tractor. I don't think it matters. I replaced the cotter pins with quick change pins (not sure that is the proper name for them).

John

 

[Jimbrown]

Don't think it makes a dinky do but my manual shows the cotter pins on the outside.

 

[kubotabilly]

Rogue,
I agree with JB,the pins are usually installed from the inside with the cotter pins on the outside to make it easier to take the cotter pins in and out

Bill

 

[r0GuE]

Great thanks!

 

[Berniep]

Now these aint airplanes but...
General rules for fastener installation would put the heads to the inboard side or on the top or to the front whenever possible to give gravity/g forces a chance to keep them from falling out if the retainer failed. I can see that with something that generally stays upright you would put the head on top but on horizontal fasteners I don't see that it makes much difference, but, that's the way I was trained so thats the way I keep doin it.

 

[Ken_CT]

I always face the tractor to the west when installing these pins, then install with the heads facing north. If you look on a map on a wall and visualize your tractor in this position, you see the pins are going in the correct way, the way rivers flow. To remove them I turn the tractor to the east so they come out easily in the correct direction.


NOTE TO THE HUMOR IMPAIRED: This reply is made in jest and there is no truth to any of the logic given.

 

[Dusty]

I always face the tractor to the west when installing these pins, then install with the heads facing north. If you look on a map on a wall and visualize your tractor in this position, you see the pins are going in the correct way, the way rivers flow. To remove them I turn the tractor to the east so they come out easily in the correct direction.

Reverse these instructions if you live in any of the Southern Hemispheres.

 

[ozzie tractor]

Reverse these instructions if you live in any of the Southern Hemispheres.

so thats why they have been giving me so much trouble, they shouold point this out in the owners manual

 

[Harry c]

Use hairpin clips and put them in on the side that lets you pull 'em out with the fewest busted knuckles!