Tractor troubles

[Riverlander]

While cleaning up the patch where the orange trees were I snapped off three bolts holding the linkage arm on the green tractor. Took the back wheel off and tried to remove one of the broken bolts with an easy-out. Snapped the easy-out off in the broken bolt. Might be a job for someone that knows what they are doing. Thought I would then use the white tractor that I don't like using as I hope to sell it soon and are worried I may break something on it. It has not been used since December and it refused to start. Now running out of tractors but there is still the old red one that has been pensioned off in the back of the shed. It has a constant leak from the fuel pump and looses hydraulic oil from nearly every O ring and the power steering. Blows more fumes out of the engine breather from the by-pass of worn rings than Chuck does. Evicted the spiders, battery in and she burst into life. Used it for the rest of the day and finished the job without a problem. It felt so nice to drive it again even with all of its problems. Cheers John

[Dot]

The poor orange trees just getting their own back on you and the tractors .

[Coolabah1au]

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[Greynomad]

John,
Maybe you could have brought Girt into service... she has a towball.
Just mind that left front suspension.

[BruceS]

Got those broken studs soaking in some good gear John?
Might need a couple of cycles of gas axe & cold water & then soak again.
We never broke one off but rather they kept working loose.
When you drilled for eazyout was it high tensile or soft?

[Coolabah1au]

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[Riverlander]

Hi Bruce. They are not high tensile but they have broken off flush in the side of the rear tractor housing behind the rear wheel. Asked a retired gas field maintenance worker that lives just down the road and he is going to weld a nut to it so we can try to take then out that way.
cheers John

[Coolabah1au]

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[T1 Terry]

Using the stick welder, disconnect the battery first, weld a few bits or bird poo on the broken stud end, know this off with a chisel, now build a good bit of a mount on the broken stud. Break the slag off and place a nut big enough to fit over the weld blob and weld that to the blob. Let it cool and the broken stud will wind out with very little effort.
The welding heats the stud causing it to expand, the first bit the stud was too cold to get a good weld penetration, the second weld will fuse deep into the stud and make it glow red. Welding the nut onto the stud will swell the stud again, each time loosening the stud in the thread. When it cools it will have shrunk slightly and be easy to wind out.
Just don't weld the stud to the metal around it, that tends to make the job a tad more difficult

[Busman]

Using oxy is even easier.
VP has 8 grade 8 bolts holding the front axle in, they needed lossening for camber adjustment.
2 places with big bars and 1" rattle guns gave up, scared of breaking them.
Took VP home, heated studs one by one till they were red all the way through, squirted cold water on till they lost colour, could have got them out by fingers if they were not a wee bit hot.