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showcrop · Nov 8, 2014

I scored an original top link to put on my trailer queen, so now I would like to know if anyone has a way of holding it up instead of letting it bounce on the PTO shaft. I have an old pic of some X00s being unloaded at a train station and it shows the top ling just resting there.

Larry NCKS · Nov 8, 2014

I don't recall ever seeing an x00 with anything that holds the top link up. The first tractor I recall that actually had such a thing came about in the mid to late '60s.

showcrop · Nov 8, 2014

(quoted from post at 17:34:26 11/08/14)
I don't recall ever seeing an x00 with anything that holds the top link up. The first tractor I recall that actually had such a thing came about in the mid to late '60s.

Yes as I said the pic shows that they shipped them without anything. I am just looking for a good looking means of holding it up.

Tim23 · Nov 8, 2014

(quoted from post at 01:36:24 11/09/14)

(quoted from post at 17:34:26 11/08/14)
I don't recall ever seeing an x00 with anything that holds the top link up. The first tractor I recall that actually had such a thing came about in the mid to late '60s.

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Yes as I said the pic shows that they shipped them without anything. I am just looking for a good looking means of holding it up.

I'm sure this is not what you're looking for being a trailer queen, but I just use a piece of small rope tied in a loop. My top link is the turn buckle style, I just angle it up and slide the loop up and hook it over the rod that goes through the center. The loop is small enough that it just hangs there the rest of the time without getting in the way.

sunbeam · Nov 8, 2014

If it's got more than one top link pin location you could fab something off the other pin location.

Royse · Nov 8, 2014

I've rigged up a couple of different ones on my workers.
On a trailer queen, wouldn't you want it to be original?
Maybe strap it down so it doesn't bounce and scratch paint?

NNP · Nov 10, 2014

depending on tractor...
I usually just adjust the length and
twist it and drop a small diameter hitch pin thru
the rear eye and a hole in the swinging drawbar.
or
put a twisted horizontal clevis in the inner swinging drawbar hole and drop the end of the toplink in it.

some off brand models have a bracket that comes off the seat or seat mount.

and like said, if the link rocker has more than one hole, easy.
(don't have a pic of mine, but look at the back of modern Kubotas
to see one idea of a spring steel hanging thingy)

showcrop · Nov 10, 2014

Thanks for the suggestions guys. They are both very good. I played around a bit with it yesterday. My Kubota has a hook but on the old Ford it would have to be way long or come off the upper hole on the rocker and would engage the top link at only about three inches up. Maybe a leather strap would be good, and a pin through a drawbar between the lower links would work too. I am also thinking of just letting it hang but with a piece of bicycle inner tube over it at the two places where it would make contact.

Sean in PA · Nov 10, 2014

If it's going to hang, why even have it attached to the tractor? If you're going to enter it into a show, then yes, attach it once you've gotten to the show to prove that you have the original top link, but while you're driving it or trailering it with no implement attached, why leave it attached to the tractor when all it will do is bounce around?

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