Max ii help

[farmboy]

i can not make these any bigger i am going have to wait till i get home to take pictures with a actual camera. Sorry i did not post any pictures last night my brother broke down in his truck so i has to find a trailer and tow him back home. On top of that it snowed here. I will get some tonight.

[farmboy]

Well i did not have a s.d. card for the camera. But i started taking the frame out and by the looks I probably need a new lower tub or one to fix the other. I was hoping i could do a quick fix and be able to drive it but I might as well do it right the first time . I am hoping the offer is still on the table with the other lower tub?

[amphibious drew]

Well i did not have a s.d. card for the camera. But i started taking the frame out and by the looks I probably need a new lower tub or one to fix the other. I was hoping i could do a quick fix and be able to drive it but I might as well do it right the first time . I am hoping the offer is still on the table with the other lower tub?

Sure is. I don't want to mislead you into thinking its a perfect tub. It has some holes in it from what I remember, but you could easily cut out sections of one tub and plastic weld the holes on the other tub with it. I would start with the better tub as a base and use the more beat up one as patch material.

[farmboy]

Thank you very much! I will get in touch with you towards the end of next week if that is fine with you. I know your busy this weekend if you go any earlier let me know and i will try to take a vacation day to come get it.

[amphibious drew]

I may be able to save you some drive time if you would consider meeting on Black Friday. Send me you info in a pm and we can talk.

[farmboy]

Alright I need some more info. I have been trying to find info how how exactly do you take axles out. There is plenty of threads on it but i can not find one that matches the way mine is set up.Mine is a 70s models (dont know if that helps)with the axle flanges with bolts pointing in. Also my sprocket is loose from the one bolt but it only slides 2 inches either way. I can not pull the axle shaft out due to the sprocket. Please show me a good post about this or explain it to me

[amphibious drew]

If I understand you, you sprocket moves on the axle, but gets jammed 2" over. I assume you unscrewed the set screw in the locking collar and the axle is free from the bearing, or you unbolted the bearing flange. It sounds like you may just need to clean the axle up with a piece of emery cloth and hit it with some good penetrating fluid. Of course your axle could be flared a bit at the bolt through hole causing the jamming. A slide hammer comes in handy.

[hydromike]

There should be an eccentric collar that locks the bearing and axle together on the outside of the machine. The collar is held in place by a set screw. Loosen the set screw and spin the locking collar either forward or backward. Convention to "lock" or "install" the collar is to lock it in the opposite direction of primary rotation. That means, to remove the collar, tap it/ spin it forward (counterclockwise). Who knows if yours was installed that way, though. Sometimes, it saves energy to grab the li'l bastards with a big set of Vise-Grips or a pipe wrench vs. a punch and a hammer.

After your axle bolt is out, and the locking collar itself is loose and pulled off of the bearing, the axle should slide right out. There's nothing else to hold it in except spite, old age, friction and rust. It might take quite a bit of jostling around, but with enough beating back and forth, they usually come out in an hour or two.

[farmboy]

A little update i took the axles out started working on them. I did not realize one can update the inside bearing until now. already ordered the bronze bushings and I am getting ready to install them. So working on a budget anyhow i was wondering when the grease fitting is installed on the inside bushing do you drill the grease fitting hole through the bushing or just through the metal on the axles? the sprockets did not have a locking coller instead they had a 3/4 bolt ran through with a nut on the other side. Over time this has made the sprocket have some play in it. Is that going to be ok or should i do something about this. I know this probably is not good for the chain but the sprocket seem to be in good shape or have been changed out here recent. Any ideas?