Suspension dismantling - balls and shafts

cantankrs · #1 02-07-10, 11:56

Dad tried to cut one of his oxy'd shafts in the power hacksaw across the collar that the centre spring retainers bear against (to check if it was a sleeve) and it just rubbed back and forth with NO cut progress.

When he tried to part a bit of rod off from one of the ball/cones in the lathe it took the tip off the parting tool.

So he cut through the collar with a cut off wheel and found that it's definitely a sleeve as you can see the join but as to how it's fastened he's not sure. He didn't find a cross pin, nor bronze. He concedes that it was in the dark so possibly he may have ground away the pin with the width of the disc..

He wonders what process they used to heat treat these? The parting tool got under the surface of the rod O. K. but had trouble further in. Maybe some sort of spring steel? They were made of good stuff!

Regards

Alex

cantankrs · #2 24-07-10, 05:56

Hi,

Anyone able to post some pics of the tool mentioned by David in his post above?

Thanks

Alex

colin jones · #3 24-07-10, 08:05

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

David Ellery · #4 24-07-10, 09:51

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 · #5 26-07-10, 07:33

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 · #6 09-08-10, 15:27

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 · #7 10-08-10, 08:06

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