Dumbest fast hitch question ever.

Rex Simpkins · Dec 23, 2013

I have had my 240 utility for 20+ years, it has the big prong sockets and I have the factory spacers for small prong implements---- I have just placed them in there all these years but what is the proper placement??? I know those holes in the spacers are there for a reason

Anonymous-0 · Dec 23, 2013

No such thing as a dumb question.

The set that my Uncle has had a rolled drive pin in the hole. You put the spacer in on the bottom and the drive pin would stop the spacer when it hit the socket part of the hitch.

Edward

Rex Simpkins · Dec 24, 2013

Thanks, Now my Christmas is complete. You just gave me a nice gift.

Farmallhal · Dec 24, 2013

Rex, I have a pair of those spacer plates but don't have them in front of me at present but each one of mine has two holes in them. One which I recall is located about mid-way of it's length where the roll-pin noted by Edward is installed while the other one is located close to one end of the plate. That might be what you are asking about as that hole is for a retaining clip I read somewhere in one of my many IH manuals. At one time I had the part no. of the clip used to retain the plates in the sockets when an implement wasn't hooked-up to the tractor. The hole would either be to the front or to the rear depending where there would be something on the hitch socket to retain the plates with the retaining clip. Since I could never locate the availability of the clips anywhere in the IHC parts network I just remove the plates from the hitch when no small point implement is on the tractor as they would most likely be lost when moving the tractor without those retaining clips. Hope this helps somewhat in your spacer plate orientation to your hitch, Hal.

Rex Simpkins · Dec 25, 2013

Thanks for the reply, that is what I do is remove them when not in use, mine are the mid size one with one hole in the end. Sometimes they slide so far up in the socket that they are hard to get out. I know there must have been some way they could be secured properly. I know once an implement is hooked they could not fall out. I think the best thing for me to do is find a May/June 2004 copy of Red Power. I get the magazine but I share it with friends and do not have that one any longer. Thanks again and have a Merry Christmas season

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