Finally fixed my radius arm ball ends - Pics

So since I woke up about 530AM this past Saturday and also because I was tired of looking at the radius arm ball ends rattling around in their caps I decided to fix them.

Four fender washers, a 5/8" acorn nut and an 8 inch vice with a cup of coffee and an hour later I had no more rattling around.

Here are some pics. Maybe it will be able to help someone. The pics are pretty self explanatory and are in order of going through the cupping process of the washers. I decided to cup the washers in a vice since force cupping them using the radius arm cap while bolting them in may have broken the bolt flanges off of the radius arm caps.




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Nice work.
But...
I don't understand why people use shims.
Take your angle grinder and put a sanding disc on it. Then sand a little off the flat part of the cap. Easy does it. Sand and test fit. Repeat till it's just snug on the ball. Will give you years of wear.
That's the way they do it when they line bore engine blocks and recondition piston rods - Mill the cap slightly, reassemble, then rebore to size.
You can sand the other half a little too if the wear is excessive. Just try to get the mating surfaces as flat as you can.
 
I've done as many others said.

peny, electrical box knockout slug

inner tube.. etc.. etc..

just about all the methods work equally well and last a LOOOOONG time.
 
sorry i didn't get back to you yesterday. I was at my day job 1 hr and then got called in to my night job in an emergency.

I think I'm gonna have to pass on the offer.. I'm working 70+ hours a week now which is why i didn't start a tractor project since last yer and my job change. If it wasn't for my tablet pc I wouldn't even be able to get on the board much. well.. that and the wifi or broadband at work ;)

I got no doubts that Hobo has the capability to do it though. He fixes stuff for a living.
 

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