Well that wasn't any fun!
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Thanks, I'll give your method a try when I have to change out again. I have rebuilt the engine on the old 8N and it has great power now, but I was having a problem with the "rebuilt" oil pump holding a prime between usages. I sent it to a good fellow who can rebuild this correctly for me, it is down until he can return it to me. Then I won't be having to swap out so much.
k0ua
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What I don't understand is why you would have trouble adjusting the turnbuckles with the implement raised off of the ground. You can easily push any heavy implement a bit sideways with one hand to get the bind off of the turnbuckles, you can adjust with one hand. You weren't trying to adjust them while the implement was on the ground and in a bind were you? Yes turnbuckles are slow to adjust, and the telescoping stabilizers are much superior, but turnbuckles are not hard to adjust. If you have a hydrostatic transmission tractor you can leave it running at idle, and put your bucket down flat to keep it from drifting off, and if you need to pull up or back up a hair, just put your hand on the proper pedal to move it a tad.
Don't run over your foot though. With a gear drive tractor, you can use LeeJohn's method to curl/dump your bucket to move the tractor a bit.. I used to use that method when I ran gear drive tractors. I have never used or needed a prybar.
Don't run over your foot though. With a gear drive tractor, you can use LeeJohn's method to curl/dump your bucket to move the tractor a bit.. I used to use that method when I ran gear drive tractors. I have never used or needed a prybar.
tman1020
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Yes those pin type adjusters are way better than turn buckles, worth every penny.
I'll give the loader bucket method a try too. Sounds too easy to be true...lol
I forgot to add that one of the reasons that I was having so much trouble was that I took the arm off of that side of the hog and had put a 4x4 block under it to keep it level, until I adjusted the turnbuckle, and had to use the cheater bar to push it back in a little and the side slipped off the block so the hog was now sitting quite un-level and of course the arm won't go down low enough to hookup. That is why I finally removed the leveling rod and could then could hookup. Generally just a cluster *#*#.
I forgot to add that one of the reasons that I was having so much trouble was that I took the arm off of that side of the hog and had put a 4x4 block under it to keep it level, until I adjusted the turnbuckle, and had to use the cheater bar to push it back in a little and the side slipped off the block so the hog was now sitting quite un-level and of course the arm won't go down low enough to hookup. That is why I finally removed the leveling rod and could then could hookup. Generally just a cluster *#*#.
k0ua
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You can move the tractor several inches forward and backward with just one finger pushing the joystick on the loader. Of course that wont move it sideways any. but if you back up correctly you don't need to move it sideways. but sometimes you do need to move the tractor fwd or rev. a bit. If you get one pin on, and the other side is still further back Just curl the loader bucket and it will move the tractor backward which will usually skew the implement towards the other lower link.
oosik
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I have had hard times connecting implements. 99 times out of 100 this is because the implement was left in a non-level condition. If I would just take the time to ensure the location where I "drop" an implement is level - reconnection becomes much easier. I have a hydraulic top link and telescoping stabilizers which do help a lot. I always drop the link pin on the stabilizer anti-sway arms so the stabilizers are completely free swinging during hook up. Every little bit helps.
"What I don't understand is why you would have trouble adjusting the turnbuckles with the implement raised off of the ground. You can easily push any heavy implement a bit sideways with one hand to get the bind off of the turnbuckles, you can adjust with one hand. You weren't trying to adjust them while the implement was on the ground and in a bind were you?"
The implement was on the ground. :ashamed: I'm going to have to adjust how I hook up to things, I guess.
Old tractors and new tractors and old tractor operators are just a bad mix. :confused2:
The implement was on the ground. :ashamed: I'm going to have to adjust how I hook up to things, I guess.
Old tractors and new tractors and old tractor operators are just a bad mix. :confused2:
