Wide adjustable front end

706 Farmall · May 23, 2010

I bought a wide front end off a 1256 and installed it on a 706, when installing it I noticed that the center pivot pin is sloppy between the axle shaft and the mount housing. Can the bushings or bearings be replaced? It looks like someone tried to shim front and back?

Is this a common thing?

Thanks

CNKS · May 23, 2010

I'm not familiar with either tractor, but the bushings may not be through the whole thing, just front and back. A machine shop should be able to fix it, and can find bushings to fit, provided they can manage the axle. Be better if you could take the axle out on each side.

CNKS · May 23, 2010

I'm not familiar with either tractor, but the bushings may not be through the whole thing, just front and back. A machine shop should be able to fix it, and can find bushings to fit, provided they can manage the axle. Be better if you could take the axle out on each side.

Nebraska Kirk · May 23, 2010

(quoted from post at 18:42:16 05/23/10) I bought a wide front end off a 1256 and installed it on a 706, when installing it I noticed that the center pivot pin is sloppy between the axle shaft and the mount housing. Can the bushings or bearings be replaced? It looks like someone tried to shim front and back?

Is this a common thing?

Thanks

I don't think there are any bushings in that pivot hole. To fix it you would have to have the worn hole bored and a bushing installed, and buy a new pivot pin.

mazemeister · May 23, 2010

not sure exactly what you mean- but there are 2 steel-backed brass bushings that press into the center hole on the axle tube, where it pivots on the pin. the pin has a clevis pin through the front that fixes it to the cast bolster. check the parts diagram. those bushings are i think 20 bucks or so from c-ih, then they have to be reamed to fit the pin (don't ask me why they don't just make them fit to begin with). if you're talking about fore-aft movement of the whole axle- that play is taken up by removing shims from the ball & socket at the rear of the wishbone. when that socket is as tight on the ball as reasonable, it will hold the axle forward.

MN Scott · May 23, 2010

There are two bushings in the center axle tube. You can still buy the bushings from CNH. Just put a set in my 756 last winter. Your center pivot pin may be worn so measure it to. The forward backwards motion is controlled by the rear pivot ball. The ball or more likely its socket are worn to.

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