Seized Pin - Top Link Rocker Bracket

Donegal Dexta · Post by **Donegal Dexta** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:51 pm

The large pin supporting my hitch assembly on the Top Link Rocker Bracket is seized solid, ive tried beating it stupid with a club hammer and dosing it with WD40 but it just wont move, any ideas folks?? Ive heard heating it can make it worse??

Donegal Dexta

marcusgs · Post by **marcusgs** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:48 pm

Hi,

I know this works because I have tried it!

Get an arc (stick) welder and weld a bead all the way through the inside of the pin, it will then come out with a little persuasion from your club hammer!

Regards,

gcamp · Post by **gcamp** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 9:02 pm

Mine was also locked tight. I ground two flats on the exosed end to get a wrench or vise grips on. Then sprayed with Aerokroil, beat it and tried twisting it for days. It came out after about a week.

Good luck,
Gene

pjjms · Post by **pjjms** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 10:29 pm

The welding trick is a good one. We have a machine at work which uses large taper rollers. Unfortunitly the outer race is pressed into a blind shoulder so there's no way to knock them out from the back. We run a bead of weld around the inside and when they cool they just drop out.

A weld on the inside diameter of most things will shrink them.