skid steer to ( fast attach) pallet fork conversion

[sd455dan]

More Plasma cutting to get an idea of what needs modded
Mmm this one is going to need some work...
I am sure a solution will present itself.

 

[Xfaxman]

Consider adding some extra rollback on the forks:

 

[sd455dan]

Edit

Yep, which is what I added when I changed it to fast attach.


I Like the pic you posted.

Might be the best way to Go.

Add some rectangular stock or spacer flat stock to the bottom of the Forks body and then tack in the plate I got in the kit, after cutting out the center where the receiver hitch is.

Then add some support flat stock pieces between the plate and existing fork body.

The only other hurdles are, it would require cutting the entire top NH capture piece that is still on the Forks and some fill in plates on the outside edge of the kit plate to Old fork body.

 

[Wobblin-Goblin]

Need pictures. Your 3rd picture is too close up to show the outside edge and angles.

I guess something like this is what you have:
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FYI, my dad just bought a pair of those identical lockers. Made in china, and they need modifications just to work properly (or at all).

 

[Wobblin-Goblin]

Off to a Rocky start.


They machined the QA spring actuator incorrectly to where the handles cannot be rotated over the break over point to lock them I am machining the shoulder down so it will work.

The actuator part that slides is either mis machined or machined for a bushing that is not included therefore when you push the lever the assembly binds on the threads that are used with a nut to keep the spring compressed.

I am trying to source or will have to machine those parts as well.


More to follow.

The QA mechanism plates are as advertised and well made. Just need to address some issues and move forward.

Just to follow up on my previous post, what you posted is exactly what we had to deal with. We made our own bushings, filed the throat of the steel block, and drilled and tapped in a grease fitting.

Without doing this, the mechanisms are completely inoperable.

 

[sd455dan]

Just to follow up on my previous post, what you posted is exactly what we had to deal with. We made our own bushings, filed the throat of the steel block, and drilled and tapped in a grease fitting.

Without doing this, the mechanisms are completely inoperable.

Yeah it took some work.
I was going to enlarge the throat of the blocks if my bushings did not work.

The bushing walls were "thin" for sure. I will enlarge the blocks if the bushings I made fail.

Today spent some time on the pallet fork conversion.

After thinking on it for a while decided the kit plate would need much of its center cut out to leave access for the receiver hitch pin/ bolt and would add more weight.

I decided to just modify the existing forks and add the lower locking plates , still have some more to do.

Typical discount kit for sure. For what it cost I think it was a decent deal,- but if I didn't have tools to deal with the mis matched mechanism parts, it would have been almost impossible to make the kit work as sold.

Was looking at the feedback and several people did send the kits back because of the mechanism.