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Re: (ET) steering spindle sticking - Fixed
That's what we got a board for. Mutual aid.
Incidentally, this writer just attended a showing of the movie 'An
Inconvenient Truth'.
Have 3 statements to make about this movie.
(1) Everyone in the country should see it, and everyone in the world
should too
when it gains language support.
(2) What we are doing with these electric tractors is a lot more
important than just
saving gasoline while having fun and stretching our brains.
(3) We should also see the movie 'Who Killed the Electric Car' which
shows what
many of us EV people have known all along. That 'big fuel'
interests and 'big
automotive' interests are in bed with each other and will do
anything to maintain
their profitable status quo.
Regards
Dave
Weymouth MA
.
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:24:08 -0400 "Banks, Michael J."
<mbanks protopower com> writes:
> My father-in-law and I worked on the tractor today. We took a
> brass
> pin and hammered the spindle out, adding grease and something
> supposedly
> better than WD40 every now and then. Eventually when we got the
> spindle out. We cleaned it. It definitely wasn't smooth any
> more, it
> had some pretty deep grooves in it. We used a dremel and polished
> it
> so that it was fairly smooth. We then used the dremel on the
> inside of
> the axle. Added some grease and it slid right back in. When the
> tractor was in the air you could blow on the steering wheel and the
> wheels would turn. As soon as we put it on the ground the
> steering
> gear started to skip again.
>
> So we shimmed the steering wheel right behind the cotter pin
> underneath
> the tractor and that tightened everything up.
>
> It now works better than before all this trouble happened.
>
> Thanks to everyone for all their help.
> Mike
> Colchester, Ct
>
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