Tractor Loader pins

TexelBen

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

North Yorkshire

• May 10, 2020

• #1

I've finally swapped mf 80 loader to an unmolested one, with the proper tilt linkage.

Its missing some pins out of the linkage, can I make some out of standard mild steel, or do they need to hardened?

Tia

 

ACEngineering

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Location

Oxon

• May 10, 2020

• #2

TexelBen said:

I've finally swapped mf 80 loader to an unmolested one, with the proper tilt linkage.

Its missing some pins out of the linkage, can I make some out of standard mild steel, or do they need to hardened?

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Get En16 or En24. Mild will wear very quickly.

 

TexelBen

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

North Yorkshire

• May 10, 2020

• #3

ACEngineering said:

Get En16 or En24. Mild will wear very quickly.

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Thanks, that's what I was thinking, just that I've some decent lumps of mild at work.
I'll see what lengths I can find, unless any one knows where I could buy some pins?
I had a Google but didn't turn up anything of use.

 

davedb

Member

Location

Staffordshire

• May 10, 2020

• #4

What size do you need might be easier buy some tow pins and use them

 

Thomas5060

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Larne, Northern Ireland

• May 10, 2020

• #5

When we put a euro head on our 80 we needed some pins so we just used draw pins, do the job nicely

 

TexelBen

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

North Yorkshire

• May 10, 2020

• #6

davedb said:

What size do you need might be easier buy some tow pins and use them

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I'll have a measure [emoji106]

 

TexelBen

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

North Yorkshire

• May 10, 2020

• #7

davedb said:

What size do you need might be easier buy some tow pins and use them

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They measure up to about 32-33mm (bit of wear in there)

Am I right thinking that's cat 3?

 

tinman

Member

Location

Ulster

• May 10, 2020

• #8

cat 3 toplink pins would be 32mm or 1-1/4".
they wouldnt be the hardest but would suffice for a 80 loader.
En24 otherwise imo.

 

TheTallGuy

Member

Location

Cambridgeshire

• May 10, 2020

• #9

I'm currently putting an 880 loader onto a 4wd MF690 (seemed like a good idea at the time!) & have lifted the front end up using mild steel pins on the linkages in order to get it together & checked out, but obviously being soft they will gouge fairly easily so will be replaced with En24 later on.

 

TexelBen

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

North Yorkshire

• May 10, 2020

• #10

tinman said:

cat 3 toplink pins would be 32mm or 1-1/4".
they wouldnt be the hardest but would suffice for a 80 loader.
En24 otherwise imo.

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Thanks, it won't be flat out everyday, just light use. Gotta be better than hand balling 4 stringer into the back of the pickup.

I'll vat some ordered [emoji106][emoji106]

 

TexelBen

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

North Yorkshire

• May 16, 2020

• #11

They arrived the other day, fitted them, it's like a new loader now [emoji1419]
Thanks for the help guys