Hinged, Non-Draft Control Top Link Pin...

Tom Bowman · Aug 12, 2013

Here's my old broken pin, along with a replacement I just received.

The new one doesn't have the shoulder and "flange" like the old one, and just goes all the way through the holes.

Is there a better replacement option?

Jason S. · Aug 12, 2013

I checked on one at my local dealer about two weeks ago. It is still available from Agco. If I remember right it was around $52.00. I think Sparex offers one also, and the pic I saw it is made right. Your other option is to get a bushing that fits the outside of the pin and inside the hole on the axle housing. It should be one of the commonly available steel bushings available at most farm stores like TSC. Mine was complete and intact but a previous owner broke it at the lynch pin hole. I thought it was much cheaper to cut the end of another pin at the hole and weld onto mine and grind it down than to turn loose of $52.00 for something that I only have one use for and that is my Dearborn sickle mower bracket.

maxwell99 · Aug 12, 2013

I when out and looked at that long hinged pin on my tractor, 1957 TO-35.

It looks more like your new bolt. The grove at the non clip end is where your chain clip goes that keeps the pin connected to the tractor.
the other end has the hole for the locking pin.

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you have my interest here: How did you break the end off that long hinged pin?????????

over the years I only used that long hinged pin to support the hitch stabilizers bars when I use the cross bar hitch or a seeder or anything that does not require to be lifted up/down, but I want it to stay at the same height.

then lock down the lift lever, so I do not hit it with my foot and the lift arms go up and bend the stabilizer bars.

Tom Bowman · Aug 12, 2013

Thanks, Jason - I'll do some checking.

Maxwell, I didn't break the pin, it came that way when I bought this TO-20 last fall.

It was pretty good and stuck, and it took some PB and persuasion to get it out.

You mentioned your TO-35; I actually believe I ended up ordering the pin for the TO-35 - I thought it would work. (That's what I get fer thinkin'!)

I doubt if I'll use it - I just didn't want a broken pin in there.

I may not want $52.00 worth of pin, however.

Charles in Aus. · Aug 13, 2013

The old broken pin with shoulder is the same as
fitted to the TE20.
The new one the same as the one that fits my FE35.

Ken52M · Aug 13, 2013

I would weld a new end on the old pin. KB

Tom Bowman · Aug 13, 2013

(quoted from post at 08:02:11 08/13/13) I would weld a new end on the old pin. KB

Not a bad idea, Ken - now, if I only had a welder, and if it hadn't been thirty years since I'd welded anything!

Jason, Sparex does indeed show one in their catalog, but I haven't found anyone who has one. (It's a Sparex S.00070, OEM Ferguson Part No. 181060M91.)

Jack's has a MF/AGCO for about forty bucks.

Thanks for the info.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 20, 2013

I'm sure I have an original for sale on E Bay. Nothing fits like original recycled parts.

Tom Bowman · Aug 20, 2013

(quoted from post at 06:35:36 08/20/13) I'm sure I have an original for sale on E Bay. Nothing fits like original recycled parts.

VTP, I've never purchased anything on eBay, and the few times I've looked, I found it hard to find things.

Please send me an e-mail or a message through this website, if you have one of the pins. (You're logged in as a "Guest", so I can't send you a message.)

Thanks.

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