Suspension dismantling - balls and shafts

[colin jones]

Hello everyone, I asume this is the tool dave is talking about.
Colin.

[David Ellery]

Yep thats the tool, simple and effective. As Rob Beale posted about this tool earlier, if your using Brit/Canadian rods you can machine the inner workings to suit the different threads .Australian part number 317. David.

[John Mackie]

I know how hard rusted bits can be to dismantle.Iwas relitively lucky with my carrier, although I have a bogie axle I cant move!! Regarding replacing the spring units I used a Ford tool which was used instead of the pinion yoke when seting up the diff. It is similar to the one shewn except it has a lefthand thread on the loose nut. it worked ok for me. I have some rods, balls and springs left over that may be helpfull. John.

[cantankrs]

Hi All,

Dad fabricated this radius turning tool for cleaning up the ball/cones in the lathe. Some were too pitted so he built them up with stick welder and rough ground by hand and then radius turned in lathe. The balls that had the remains of oxy'd rods still had hard rust encrustation that the drilling operation didn't get so I think he's found that aiming the sandblaster in there for a while is about the only way to chase it out.

He's got about 3 new rods nearly finished.

Thanks for the info and pics above about the on-carrier suspension spring compression tool, but has anyone got a pic of the repair depot tool that compressed the whole spring assembly in one action?

Thanks

Alex

[T Creighton]

Hi Guys,

I have been watching this discussion with interest. Don't have a carrier but have had to free up lots of rusted up things over the years. There is usually an alternative.
Maybe in this case some replacement bits from:

http://www.tractorlinkageparts.net/

Cheers,
Terry

[cantankrs]

Originally Posted by T Creighton

Maybe in this case some replacement bits from:
http://www.tractorlinkageparts.net/

Hi Terry,
Thanks for your input. Interesting stuff on that site.
Regards
Alex

[cantankrs]

Some progress since the last update. Here are some pics of the suspension insulators. The upper right one was a success, the other two examples were early attempts to deform the material and you can see the material failed. Bruce comments that this material tends to have some 'memory' and each one needed pressure to be maintained for some time after they cooled and then they needed to be trimmed, drilled/punched, and riveted in and the springs reassembled into the suspension unit to get them back under compression to preserve their shape. How well this material will work is unknown at this point. Unlikely to get much driving use anyway.

Alex