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Bent axle-update
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Posted by coflyboy on April 24, 2007 at 13:18:10 from (71.221.101.95):
About a year ago I posted a question on this forum as to why the left front wheel on my Ford 641 was bent rearward (as in castor tilted rearward instead of forward) while the right one was straight. I advised at that time that the tractor had been picked up in a tornado and dropped on the left front wheel. Several of the good folks on this forum tried to help, but the unanswered question was how could the cast iron axle be bent but not broken since cast breaks instead of bending. As can be seen in the attached picture the culprit is the bolt holding the axle to the radius rod. It broke at the lower axle/radius rod junction causing the axle to bend rearward at the bottom. The spindle, of course, then would tilt rearward. I was almost too embarrassed to post this as I should have seen that broken bolt. I guess people tend to see what they expect to see. The reason for this post was to hopefully help others from missing this under similar circumstances. If the top of the bolt had also broken at the wrong time, bad things could have happened.
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