Bent Hyd Control Arm?

49 8N.

Before I go a heating & hammering I’d like to make sure the Hydraulic control arm is NOT supposed to look like this. Certainly the sketch in the FO manual exploded view looks straight but it has a section cut away.

When I removed from tractor along with the rusted frozen linkages it looked like this except it was slightly bent in the other direction too. I straightened that out (in the Z axis in this photo) but didn’t remove this bend. Heat marks are from a previous repair, I bent the other direction cold.

Funny part is that it seems to line up with Zane’s jig bent the way it is. Quadrant 2/3 of the way back on the elongated holes, slack out of linkage in draft mode. Alignment falls apart though in position mode. I would have to crank that spring way way down.

Thanks as always. Your collective guidance provides a great deal of reassurance to those of us who have only the faintest idea what we are doing but are willing to try.

Straighten it cold by holding an anvil of some sort on one side and strike it with a hammer on the other until it is straight.

Zane

Some folks here recomend heating rod, you indicate cold working. Reasons?

Interesting that you complain about the I&T FO-4 manual being unclear about it. My FO-4 has 6-pictures and 2-schematic drawings where the control arm illustrated is definately straight.

Yeah, they do have one assy drawing where for illustrative purposes to fit the picture space, the LONG control arm is air-gapped..... ....Dell

Any advice on how to straighten the darn thing?