Frozen turnbuckles - L4200

Soundguy · Oct 1, 2010

it's probably not hard to fab.. or cut yours out. IE.. get long threaded couplers, cut the old turn budkle out, attach a threaded coupler, and then thread the other rod or add a piece of threaded rod.. wled it all up, use a stop nut with the section at the threaded coupler.. good to go.

I have 2 tractors like that.. one with brake and one with clutch linkage.. both home made.. both adjustable.. both been like that for years..

soundguy

some zilch · Oct 1, 2010

penetrating oil is a joke, and i dont buy into any of the hype some people try to justify its awesomeness with. now someone can go ahead and tell me how great kroil is; im waiting. penetrating oil is for people without torches, and will eventually find someone else to do it for them

a properly heated part will always move, especially with some stratigically applied force. i can get any rusted party to move/come apart with heat. i dont think i own 1 can of "penetrant"-if its stuck, the flame wrench comes out

Soundguy · Oct 1, 2010

the blue wrench is fine.. but is not appropriate for all things.

I sure as **** would not use it on any of my expensive and irreplaceable hydraulic valves that have had stuck spools that I soaked apart in a bucket of kerosene with some patience and a lil tapping from a copper maul.

I've also had to extricate cast aluminam parts from steel parts.. heat enough to make it let go would have turned that into a pile of shiney metal splattered on the floor...

there is a reason brute force is linked to ignorance in the old saying..

heat is a brute force method..

( and in many cases it's certaintly appropriate.. just not all )

soundguy

Don87 · Oct 1, 2010

Just remember that if you decide to go the "heat route", get it "red" and get it apart right away...........because if it's allowed to cool, the parts will be welded together, and will likely never come apart.

Jay4200 · Oct 2, 2010

I don't have an acetylene torch. I use a MAPP plumbers torch (it does have acetylene in it...), but I don't think it's hot enough to heat steel red. I'm planning on tossing both seized assys into a 5-gal bucket of hydro/trans fluid, then let them slosh around in the back of my pickup for a week. I just wish I thought of that last weekend when I generated all of the waste fluid - probably be done by now. What do you think my chances are of that working all by itself? I'm also a fan of the the BFG method - works like a charm for ball joints anyway - that'll be next on the list.

JayC

Soundguy · Oct 2, 2010

add some diesel to that mix..

soundguy

MKL1980 · Oct 2, 2010

The way we got lucky and got some to free up. Put the heat direct on either the screw part of the turnbuckle, or the tube then drop it a bucket of cold water. And hit on it each time when heating it to knock some rust and also use Aero kroil oil. I prob spelled it wrong. But could send you a new heavy duty one for around $50.00 bucks.