Stabilizer Bars

The link pins on the fender brackets must be set the same on both sides, and, face inward towards the link pins on the lift arms connected to your tractor. Picture your two index fingers pointing tip-to-tip, but not touching...got it? Next, leave the bracket bolts loose at first. Connect the end of the bar to the bracket while maintaining the angle inwards. Then connect the opposite end to your implement and this end angles away from the tractor. Try your lift slowly to be sure there isn't any bending of the bars. When they look cool, tighten the fender bolts down and watch the lifting action again. This should work. Contact me if you want pictures.

Tim

The bars for the N, Jub., NAA, hundred series, etc... are straight except for a slight angle near the holes on each end.

Also, the stabilizer bar pin under the fender should be located directly across from the lower hitch pins on the rear end housing. If not, the geometry will not be consistent as the lift is raised up and down. HTH. Rick H. Ga.

In your same boat about 8 weeks ago. I bought the adjustable ones from TSC and they indeed had the one bent end. Even the one-piece I've seen at TSC have slight bends in them.

To install, I attached the bent end under the axle so that the other end was thrown inward toward the center line of the tractor. Once pinned, I then held the other end and adjusted (pronounced "bent") it by pulling it outward just enough so it aligned with my hog pin. Other side - same way. They fit great now and definitely do the job! Just make sure to adjust them to the same length before installation and then fiddle with the implement to get it centered (assuming you don't want it skewed to one side).

-shaun

Yep, these are for the lower attachments. Here's one of the only photos I found online - but it's small. I posted a better photo formerly in the archives but wasn't sure where.

TSC's site mistakenly shows the solid bar as the photo for the adjustable - just as it did when I shopped for mine.

-shaun

Rob -

Optimumly, each end would have a slight opposite directional bend in it because the bar has to come in toward the center line of the tractor as it extends back to the implment. Being that the pins are all mounted parallel with the center line of the tractor, a slight bend on each end (making a VERY slight "s" shape compensates for a wide pin arrangement on the axle that is trying to reduce to a narrower pin arrangment on the implement). Because all of these parts have a little play, I found that the adjustable bars - which you and I have - work but the one end that IS bent must be "unbent" a little to make the fit. So, I simply attached my ends under the axle and then pulled them outward on the implment end. Those ends then fit on my hog pins. I had longer pins there for my own chain set-up so I had to pull the pin, position the bar, and then slide the pin back in but this is just because I'm running long pins there.

Here's a diagram that helps explain what I did.

-shaun

Soundguy

What I did wrong on mine was to install the angle brackets wrong the first time.... what that resulted in was interference when the 3 point was raised.... in fact limited the lift. Even put a small bend the 'hard way' in the stabilizer arms.

Turned the angles around and it's all better. duey