maxtorman1234 Posted November 11, 2003 Posted November 11, 2003 Yesterday, I realized I lost a bolt to hold the tire on. Today, I realize im missing the nut to hold they pully on the bgb[:0]. And my hood keeps vibrating loose:(!....... What can stop this? Thanks
MPH Posted November 11, 2003 Posted November 11, 2003 Use of locktight helps.. but I lost most of my nuts and bolts years ago..MPH
Salthart Posted November 12, 2003 Posted November 12, 2003 This may sound funny to you all but something I have found to be true almost with out fail is this,,, If your having trouble with bolts loosening, Something is out of balance.. If this were my tractor, I would check every piece that turned from the engine to the BGB. A dent in a belt pulley can do the same. Good luck.. I found this out the hard way back in the early 80's. My Father in law had a new radiator installed on his big ford with a 351 small block. And soon after, he asked me to have a look at the AC on it that had quit working. I found about every other bold on the engine loose or missing. I tightened and or replaced as needed and a month or 2 later had the job to do over again. Well, I never was a fan of Fords. Plain didn't like the way they were thought out and I didn't like working on this one once much less "Licking a calf" on it. ( Having to re-do the job ) I started looking and noticed a small, fast vibration when it was running. After a good while I found that the fan had been replaced with one lock-washer out of 4 missing... Replaced it and never had trouble again.. So when deck bearings wore out to soon on a tractor I soon learned the same thing happens to them. A blade that is warped or out of balance will destroy the bearings in the arbor, A slight bend in a drive shaft will eat BGB bearings as fast as you can replace them.. just my point of veiw.. Good luck to you
fuzy Posted November 12, 2003 Posted November 12, 2003 I would check the drive shaft area. First start with the couplers and also look very closely at the yoke at the bgb. I have seen them come loose and begin to damage the yoke and shaft and get very sloppy causing the drive shaft to run out of balance. I have even seen some break the coupler and bend the drive shaft and take out other linkages and hydro lines in the process.
maxtorman1234 Posted November 15, 2003 Author Posted November 15, 2003 I have those bolts back on now, I had to take the engine out yesterday, and I removed the shield on the top. I discovered a bolt on the head came loose! I torqued them to 28 ft. pounds, and they still came loose. How can that happen?
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