a tip if things go bad on your 5020 front end
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Topic: a tip if things go bad on your 5020 front end
Posted By: dt1050
Subject: a tip if things go bad on your 5020 front end
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2017 at 6:34am
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My son was using my 5020 4x4 to pull logs down for a friend to cut up for firewood. I heard the tractor shut off and seen the boy walking down the hill....well that can't be good. Right front wheel locked up. Not wanting to make things worse I put a couple of logs under the loader buck and lifted the front wheels off the ground and steered with the brakes. It worked got off the hill and into the garage without messing up any of the gears, only had to replace the bearing that went bad. So if you find yourself in that situation and have a loader, shove sum logs, lumber, metal pipe, etc. under the bucket and lift your front end off the ground. If you start chewing up the gears in the front axle it's gonna get expensive fast!! ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
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Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2017 at 7:54am
| are those full time 4x4? |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2017 at 9:14am
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no there's a lever under the seat to put it into 4 wheel. but the final drive gears in the front axle/hub still turn in 2 wheel.
------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2017 at 12:29pm
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on a similar note... if you have a D-14 be SURE BOTH bolts holding the steel plate that holds the 'wishbone' on are TIGHT !..... Yup, one 'fell' out on me...furthest corner of the property(Murphy's Law) and the WHOLE front axle kind slipped out....... ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: tbran
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2017 at 1:23pm
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not only expensive,,, elusive...
------------- When told "it's not the money,it's the principle", remember, it's always the money.. |
Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2017 at 3:45pm
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Wow - having the front end "kind of slip out" sounds thoroughly annoying! Clever idea to create a skid for the front end!! ------------- WC, CA, D14, WD45 |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2017 at 6:27pm
There's another way. Most wf's have a limiter stop, to keep the FE from rising up to hit the sheet metal, on the tractor. Find that spot, jack the tractor up, with the lame foot up in the air, and stick a wedge between the axle, and the stop, tape, wire, or chain the wedge in place, and you can limp home... There's a video of an old man and his wife, on the opposite fender, with only 1 front wheel, riding in a parade, I think the tractor is a romanian ford...
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Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2017 at 7:30pm
| True Allis models had the BOLT break out too , my Uncle was discing with a 170 once and BAM, the front end was right in front of the back wheels |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2017 at 2:24pm
Not sure were they are, but the sure are elusive!! never had any of my front ends come apart like listed above, certainly doesn't sound fun!! ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
tbran wrote: