ironheadxlch
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Hello all
I have lerked around this site for some time and have benefited from its many posts but until now have never had the need to post.........well now I do. I have a 1952 JD model 60 with an adjustable wide front end. Had it about 20 or so years and it has been barn stored since I got it. It has and is in its fully extended front end position. I needed to move it on a car trailer and that required me to move the front adjustable front end inwards by say 6" per side. I jacked the front end up..... disconnected the steering link arms and removed the large horizontal bolts that secure the extention tubes to the main housings. I then pushed on them. No movement. I hammered on them..no movement. I then sledged them....no movement. I installed a 1/2" alloy chain around the entire front end and used a 4 ton ratchet type steamboat wrench (like a ratchet screw binder) on the chain to pull it in and I honestly thought I would break the chain and still no movement. I am perplexed. This can not be that stuck due to corrosion...can it?? I would estimate that I have applied force that exceeds 2 tons or more and it does not move at all. Am I missing something. Is it possible that these inter axle tubes screw into the outer housings rather than slide or have I missed some other securement bolts....help please
Thanks
Harry ironheadxlch
I have lerked around this site for some time and have benefited from its many posts but until now have never had the need to post.........well now I do. I have a 1952 JD model 60 with an adjustable wide front end. Had it about 20 or so years and it has been barn stored since I got it. It has and is in its fully extended front end position. I needed to move it on a car trailer and that required me to move the front adjustable front end inwards by say 6" per side. I jacked the front end up..... disconnected the steering link arms and removed the large horizontal bolts that secure the extention tubes to the main housings. I then pushed on them. No movement. I hammered on them..no movement. I then sledged them....no movement. I installed a 1/2" alloy chain around the entire front end and used a 4 ton ratchet type steamboat wrench (like a ratchet screw binder) on the chain to pull it in and I honestly thought I would break the chain and still no movement. I am perplexed. This can not be that stuck due to corrosion...can it?? I would estimate that I have applied force that exceeds 2 tons or more and it does not move at all. Am I missing something. Is it possible that these inter axle tubes screw into the outer housings rather than slide or have I missed some other securement bolts....help please
Thanks
Harry ironheadxlch