Case IH 885 Rear Axle Carrier - Cast Steel or Cast Iron

[rickchukas]

Unfortunately I'm slightly south of Brentwood BC - I'm in Brentwood TN. Thanks for the offer though.

 

[rickchukas]

Pulling a disk - in looking at the field and doing a little investigative work, I think I dropped the pin and the link off the left side where the three point attaches to the disk. When I went to lift the disc to make a right turn at the end of the field, the left side of the disk remained in the ground and put too much torque and pressure on the right side. Snap goes the frame attachment.

 

[cowski]

if you do not weld it on the tractor and are going to take it off and strip it down,then i would get one from a junk yard.i would imagine they are common for that was a popular tractor.you can not put a lot of heat in the housing for it is too close to the brake o rings.

 

[Renze]

Ive welded a top link bracket of a 1966 Zetor 2011 some years ago. (hay wagon attached while the top link was hanging down, turned too right so the drawbar pushed the toplink aside which broke the bracket) Just Vee'd it, welded a centimeter at a time, then did other work for a minute, welded again, hammered it with the slag hammer (i welded MIG though) and each time let it cool down and distribute the heat before welding another centimeter. It held up perfectly, even with a bouncing 3pt implement at max lift capacity.
That was cast steel, and i didnt have a torch yet. Later i repaired cast iron too, which was also do-able with proper preheating and afterglowing.

 

[art]

Given the fact that something unusual happened to cause the break to begin with you should be okay to weld it and have it hold. To replace the housing used might be easy today as that chassis was used for a number of years by IH as well as Case-IH!