Lateral Sway linkage broke

[JerryG]

When you mount your box blade, raise it just enough to clear the ground. Then adjust your side links to give about an inch to inch and a half of side to side movement. Raise it to the top and check to see if there is still a small amount of play. If you do it this way it should eliminate your problem.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Thanks for the advise. I have a lot to learn. I also think I am going to look into the telescopic adjuster modification.

 

[milkman]

changing the height of the lift arms doesn't change the tension on the stabilizer links, they are mounted on the same plane as the lift arms. I would suspect that the jerking from side to side when they were too loose is what broke the links.

 

[sandyc]

Guess I would take them back to the dealer and see if he will make good and trade the new ones in for the telescoping ones off a 2710. I did what many others have done and got rid of the knuckle busters and have gone to the telescoping arms.
There is a recent thread showing how to make the conversion. Once you have done that then changing out anything on the 3ph is a snap.