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Frazer RM Ross
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Username: Beeman
Post Number: 7
Registered: 04-2005
Posted From: 207.54.98.186
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 02:45 pm: | 
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I've got my 75 prarie bobcat 6x6 that uses a set of clutches on each drive side and when I drive up to a wall (on a good gravel pad) and push forward, I can't make the wheels spin. I believe my cluthes don't have enough grabbing power to allow the torque to pass down to the wheels, and I am getting spin on the drive to the clutch system.
I assume the machine should be capable of spinning the tires on gravel..
On a different note - is there a good way of bending back an axle that is bent or should the whole piece be replaced?
Thanks,
Beeman |
Howard Hoover (Unregistered Guest)
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Posted From: 4.160.81.176
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 07:27 pm: |
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You can bend steel back but some times you might have to bend it slightly farther than you think you need to because it might spring back to it's bent position. Do not introduce heat unless you absolutely have too it will just make it weaker!
We straightened the axle on a go kart by using a sledge hammer it was probably bent a half an inch but a couple of hits fixed it. You might want to remove the axle and put it in a vice and put a pipe around it, but if you go that far you might as well just go ahead and replace it. A piece of cold rolled steel how ever long you need it won't be that much. Are your axles solid?
Howard Hoover |
david berger
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Username: Davidrrrd
Post Number: 215
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 205.188.117.73
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 09:07 pm: |
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actualy best method is in a shop press, failing that they can be straitend in the machine with floor jack and a chain + somthing under the jack the chain can go around and chain gos around axel back near outer bearing, you turn hub till in lowest position and place jack under hub, lift it a little more than you think and count off a few seconds and release. turn hub to check out if strait or still bent,
better directions were posted several times in the past but i think you can figure it out, this methods good if you dont have the time to pull axel out, IE. your at an event and bend an axel to bad to ride it, this has saved my day seams like a hundred times |
Frazer RM Ross
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Username: Beeman
Post Number: 8
Registered: 04-2005
Posted From: 199.126.216.230
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 25, 2005 - 12:37 am: |
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right on.. I'll try out the axle suggestions. Any thoughts on the clutches? (just note to everyone, there's a 1000cc suzuki engine in this 6x6 - so obviously more torque) |
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