If one ear is straight, tack some heavy flat bar or angle iron on the top edge of it down to the bucket to keep it from moving. You don't want to have 2 bent ears. There may or may not be bushings in the bucket ears but you need a new pin that fits the mounting holes properly. Depending on how much the ear is bent, you may be able to pull it back straight. Measure the distance between the ears where it isn't bent and make a steel spacer to fit between the ears so you don't pull it back too far. If you get a big enough threaded rod you might be able to pull it cold. In that case you might have to pull it slightly more to allow it to spring back straight. You could weld the nut on one end of the threaded rod on the outside of the bent ear. If you had a helper, he could turn the nut on the other side while you hit the welded nut with a big hammer. I don't know how thick your bucket is but I'd go bigger than a 1" threaded rod and use grade 8 or a B7 stud. If you have to use heat, apply the heat from the inside of the ear as it will help pull the ear when it's cooling. It might not need very much heat. (The less heat the better as too much could stretch the steel) That's where the spacer would come in real handy. You could leave everything tight until it cooled off.
If the ear is bent at the weld, heat the inside weld and the heat will help pull it back. If it's out a lot, you could grind the inside weld out and reweld it. The heat from welding will help pull it back. Again having an inside spacer would help.
You could tack a 3/8" or thicker flat bar on the outside of the bent ear and try hitting it with a BFH too. If the pin is real close but doesn't quite fit, you could use a flap wheel in a die grinder or a carbide burr to lighty dress the pin hole(s)so the pin fits. Once you get the ear straight and the pin fits, you could put some triangle gussets on the outside of the both ears so they don't bend again. Hope this helps.
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