turnbuckles

AlabamaFarmer · Oct 18, 2005

I have a 1533 with a landspride brush cutter, boxblade, ....all the stuff you guys have talked me into buying. (at least that's what I tell my wife!). I can't get the top bar or turnbuckle on the leveling arm (?) to stay where I put them. I crank down the nuts. It is worse on the brush cutter. It gets to be a pain using something and thinking it is lifting all the way up to turn around and find out it is only a foot off the ground.

MikeD74T · Oct 18, 2005

Wrap a black rubber bungee cord around it a couple of turns & hook the other end to the lift arm or something secure. or Weld a weight to one end of the adjusting handle. or weld a washer to each end of the handle & secure it with a bungee to something solid.

MrSteve · Oct 20, 2005

I know what you mean about the dumb nut... I have taken a wrench to tighten it, I hold the "T" with a another wrench and give it all I have... Has stayed.

What I wonder if we can (I have the same MF as you) use the adjustment link from the Power Shuttle/Hydro trans tractors... It has a crank handle for that adjustment. IF you have your Operator book look at the lower picture on page 55 to see what I am talking about.

OPPS you are talking about the top link, not the right lift link, sorry. I don't have a problem at all with the top link.

AlabamaFarmer · Oct 20, 2005

I have trouble with both of them. I'll start tightening down the nut on the top bar more and see how that works.

JerryG · Oct 20, 2005

Normally just a tap on the third arm nut is enough to keep it in place. Most of the time, I even forget to do that and it has never moved. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I don't know why they put those stupid European side links on. Get the dealer to order you a crank side link.

DMF · Oct 21, 2005

I had this problem with my 1433V since the day I bought it! I tried everything until I finally *** enough to my dealer and he replaced it with a crank adjustable link; that problem is solved!
The top link is just as bad. I took it off and had the turnbuckle ends and nuts faced off to give a smoother contact surface; no luck. I used a honking adjustable on the nut and a length of tubing on the cross piece; still wouldn't hold and managed to bend the cross piece. I finally adapted a wrench that my buddy made to grab both sides of the cross piece and tighten the nut with a wrench. (I'll try to post a photo of the wrench next week) This works but is a real pain to loosen when you want to.
The Ford top links have a flat threaded plate that acts as the nut. My friend gives it a slight tap to tighten, a slightly harder tap to loosen and it never moves when in use. I was going to go to a hydraulic top link some day so I've held off on just buying a Ford top link, but I've been thinking about it for years so maybe I should just do it...?

Nasty135 · Oct 21, 2005

Maybe an answer to the loose nut problem would be to weld a weight or hook to the nut to make it heavy on one side letting gravity want to hold it from loosening or put a bungee on the hook and tie it off somewhere... Spray a little rust on it , It'll never move then /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

DMF · Oct 25, 2005

( I had this problem with my 1433V since the day I bought it! I tried everything until I finally complained enough to my dealer and he replaced it with a crank adjustable link; that problem is solved!
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