Tractor lift arm wear blocks

37chief · Feb 17, 2016

With the down time now I am doing a few little repairs. I have too much distance between the tractor wear blocks and the lift arms on my tractor. When I load my tractor, the mower is on one side or the other on the trailer. The mower doesn't fllow the tractor. Making it hard to center the mower by my self. I have about a inch on each side of the lift arms, and the wear blocks. I guess I could cut a 3 inch pipe in half, and stack 4 or 5 pieces pieces on each side, or anyone have a different idea. I already have the blocks turned sideways. Stan

RayP(MI) · Feb 17, 2016

Mine has an extra link attaches to rear axle and outside of right 3pt link. Pretty much prevents sway.

Tx Jim · Feb 17, 2016

Are you referring to your JD tractor? If so have you attempted to rotate the sway blocks 90 degrees?

Dan in North Houston · Feb 17, 2016

What kind of tractor and what kind of mower? In my experience, the wear blocks or elephant ears usually have some slack. We often used a forth link between one of the lower three point pins on the mower and a mounting point under the axle of the tractor to prevent the side to side sway. My current small tractor has sway chains with a turn-buckle on both sides of the lift arms, terminating to mounting points under the axle that accomplish the same function. I've seen similar turnbuckle - chain arrangements and telescoping links that can be pinned at different lengths as aftermarket add-ons. That would be my recommendation before welding up spacers on your wear blocks.

onefarmer · Feb 17, 2016

Could get some 1/4" plate and stack behind the sway blocks as needed.

37chief · Feb 17, 2016

Yes it's my JD 401 industrial. Stan

37chief · Feb 17, 2016

My MF has those chins. I checked my JD there just isn't much in the way of mounts to add a chain. Will have another look. Stan

Tx Jim · Feb 18, 2016

(quoted from post at 19:40:24 02/17/16) Yes it's my JD 401 industrial. Stan

JD 401 should have sway blocks similar to photo. One position is for Cat l then flip block 90 degrees for Cat ll implements.

glennster · Feb 18, 2016

stan, i took a gander at shoups catalog, and it loos like they have the sway block for about 45 dollars each, if yours uses the same blocks as the 1530 and similiar tractors. they replace numbers t30276, t21463,t30277,t21464, shoup parts number 35200 and 35205. give em a hollar at 800-627-6137 or shoup parts dot com

Eldon (WA) · Feb 18, 2016

(quoted from post at 15:53:28 02/17/16) With the down time now I am doing a few little repairs. I have too much distance between the tractor wear blocks and the lift arms on my tractor. When I load my tractor, the mower is on one side or the other on the trailer. The mower doesn't fllow the tractor. Making it hard to center the mower by my self. I have about a inch on each side of the lift arms, and the wear blocks. I guess I could cut a 3 inch pipe in half, and stack 4 or 5 pieces pieces on each side, or anyone have a different idea. I already have the blocks turned sideways. Stan

The problem is probably that the mower mounts are not set to cat II dimensions. If they can't be adjusted, I would just shim out the sway blocks and be done with it. I would be surprised to see sway blocks worn so bad that you have that kind of movement. A pic would help.

Determined · Feb 22, 2016

My 401 has pieces of pipe welded to the arms to take up slack, works well.

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