checking your nuts

tc35dforme · Aug 6, 2002

On Sunday I finished a driveway grading project by spreading a load of dense-grade processed gravel. Yesterday I was walking to the car and saw a shiny new nut laying on the ground !! Yup .... You guessed it, one of my loader mount nuts was off and the bolt was hangin'. I've checked them before after reading about their need to loosen and escape and they always seemed tight. The backdragging must have done it !?

How prevalent a problem is this ??? Should I just go ahead and weld a spot on the nuts to lock them in. If the loader frame comes off ( never ?? ), out comes the torch and new bolts.

Thoughts and comments please!!

Mrwurm · Aug 6, 2002

I often lose nuts, bolts, pins, bungees, etc from my tractor. My solution was to put a lock on the toolbox to discourage the young mechanic (4 yr old)

Last summer he took the locking pins off my mower deck gauge wheels. I discovered this after the mower ate one of the wheels.

BigDave · Aug 6, 2002

I've been checking my nuts, and results have been quite beneficial. NO PUN INTENDED. /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif While my TC33D was on the dealer's lot, I found nut missing on the turn signal. After it was delivered, I found a lose bolt that mounts the hydraulic controls. If you tractor is new, then I would assume your problem isn't too unusual, if it is older then the lock-nut may have been worn by prevous removals. Either way, give your tractor a good once over inspection.

Fly_Rodr · Aug 6, 2002

I will give mine a check as BigDave suggests. I will try loctite if any are loose.

Alan L. · Aug 6, 2002

No chiggers.

knucklehead · Aug 7, 2002

You guys are killin' me - especially since we just saw Men In Black II - fight scene in Jeebs' basement, just after they tried to denueralize "K" - he was trying to kick the alien where it counts, and "J" shouts: "He's a Ballchinnian!", and......well, you'll have to see the next part yourself. I know we should try to teach our kids decorum, but I just totally lost it, right there in the theater.

Sorry.

When I got my used Ford 1700, I went around with a set of sockets, and found many loose bolts on things like the exhaust manifold, a few on the loader mount to the tractor, the front frame where it bolts to the engine, - some backed out, even. I mentioned this elsewhere, but I think we should do a walk around while we grease, checking everything.