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Seized Pin - Top Link Rocker Bracket
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:51 pm
by Donegal Dexta
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
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:48 pm
by marcusgs
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,
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 9:02 pm
by gcamp
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
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 10:29 pm
by pjjms
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.