Can Loader Arms be Straightened?

[westmich]

I have a Kubota B2301 with loader. Not sure how or when but the right arm appears to be bent down and in. I didn't really notice it until I took the bucket off and had to put it back on. If I measure the top of the end of the arms (the part that slips into the bucket) there is nearly a two inch difference in height between the arms.




Thanks

 

[RickB]

Rear tire wear, rear tire inflation, loader mount frames, loader attaching hardware and levelness of your floor all affect your measurements and level bubble. Be sure your loader boom is actually tweaked. An auto body shop with a frame machine can straighten the boom if it is in fact twisted.

 

[Industrial Toys]

You guys must live in a different world in so many respects. Any body shop big enough to have equipment like that, would NEVER work on a tractor loader here. Most, here are over worked with highly lucrative auto (insurance) jobs.

 

[Reb954]

My loader frame has gotten tweeked a bit in the past, mainly while stacking snow. When it does I just hook the high side of the bucket under a snow bank and tweek it back.

 

[workinonit]

You guys must live in a different world in so many respects. Any body shop big enough to have equipment like that, would NEVER work on a tractor loader here. Most, here are over worked with highly lucrative auto (insurance) jobs.

Where I am in SC I don't know of anyone that straightens frames to any extent anymore. I know of a half dozen places that have frame machines that haven't been used in years. Not a lot of frame cars anymore. But the junk yards are full.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I felt fortunate that the local body shop entertained the idea of painting the tailgate of my MULE, and possibly only did so because I had my vehicle in there at the time. BUT, they sure charged enough!

Someone that even has the mechanical capability would surely stay away from such a job anyway for fear of breaking something or making it worse. I know I wouldn't dare.

 

[PILOON]

Mine also went out of wack.
Turned out to be elongated FEL mounting bolt hole that was elongated.*
Moral of story is to check torque on all mounting hardware from time to time.

* cure is to bore oversize and add new sized bolt, or weld and re bore, ( I went oversize taking the easy way.)

 

[bindian]

I have a Kubota B2301 with loader. Not sure how or when but the right arm appears to be bent down and in. I didn't really notice it until I took the bucket off and had to put it back on. If I measure the top of the end of the arms (the part that slips into the bucket) there is nearly a two inch difference in height between the arms.

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If the bucket came off easy and went back on easy, it is not the arms, but the bucket is twisted. I beefed my bucket up with 3/8th inch angle iron on top and 3/8th inch side plates welded on before I used it much. They are easy to twist, even after beefing up.
If it really bugs you, just find something real heavy and try to lift it with just the left corner of your bucket. It might even been just wear in the loader curl linkages. Try lifting the front tires of the tractor up with the bucket's joystick. I bet the cutting edge will go flat on the floor.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Cat_Driver]

Just use it per normal. Mine was tweaked and by using it it tweaked back in place. It was so bad I couldn't even connect my quick connect attachments.
Over time it fell back in place.

Just lifting this heavy and crooked with twist it but it will eventually twist back when you lift something heavy on teh other side of the bucket.

 

[dodge man]

I am like others, your arms might not be bent.

Frame machines at auto body shops are used on modern unibody cars also, for whatever reason they still call them frame machines and I also doubt they would work well on a tractor.