Jubilee bent spindle

Sawburner

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Is my soondle bent or could it be somthing else? Thanks Mark
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Likely to have a fracture and will soon snap off, been there and done that. You may want to get 'er raised up on blocks and take it apart, they can be partially cracked for awhile before they break, you'll see fresh metal and rusty metal where its been cracked awhile. Check your wheel bearings first, see what you have for any play, if its tight, take the spindle off and check it. I'm assuming the spindle is not heavily worn and the free play is causing the tire to rub like the photo appears to show.
 
Agree with BillyNY. Take it apart and inspect real good.
BTDT myself this past Friday. Can't order parts till tomorrow.
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Billy,

Can somebody make me feel good about these oddball spindles. Never heard of spindles snapping off.

I bought new spindles for the Jubilee, but it sure doesn't induce confidence, about replacing them.

But for all I know the replacements could be better that OEM.
There's a contemporary dream.

You've indicated that breakage is a common thing and the weak link is the actual spindle to kingpin joint (making the whole thing the spindle).

Is it more because of the extreme use a tractor is put to ?

If that's the case then why is it that all old trucks like all my Chevs with their separate spindle yokes taking a pounding for the same number of years, never broke, never heard of a broken one -- unless you smashed into something or came down hard on something?

Thanks,
Terry
 
I can only share mine has been carrying around a FEL with a 5/8 yard bucket for an unknown number of years.
That's what I am attributing the failure to.
 
It does have a FEL. I had it up and the bearings seam to be good. Looks like I will have to tear into it. Thanks for confirming what I was thinking. Mark first time tractor owner.
 
My uncle was always breaking the front end parts because of the FEL until he put a 800 series Industrial axle on his Jubilee. John
 
I think its metal fatigue over time, and these tractors certainly have put in some of that since they left the factory.

A front end loader or similar weight over time, depending on how abusive, would seemingly be the main contributor to metal fatigue. We know this type of front axle is not the best for front end loader, but even with the wear over time, they don't just fail overnight either. In the hundred series, there are thicker, slightly "belled out" spindles, something I learned when one of 850's snapped off. I was able to source a pair of oem spindles from someone who contributed to the other ford forum on occasion. Most know him to be associated with Elenco conversions. Apparently those, during that period were available for heavier applications, and I assume the light industrial front end was the next option up, both being more suited for loader applications.

I had been lifting some heavy loads on occasion and there is no doubt this contributed to the partially cracked spindle, eventually failing, and the the rust area/clean metal area supports that theory at least LOL !
 
pull it apart and clean it and inspect carefully something is definatly not right here, also what front rims do you have? some newer rims have too much offset for jubs and n's may work if you turn the wheel around
 
A Ford tractor was originally designed
with no real thought to a loader. Look
at the narrow stock tires. The front was
just to hold up the tractor, I bet your
old Chevy would have some kingpin and
spindle issues too if you added a front
loader to it or some other way
overloaded the front end
 
That's where mine broke, and there was a brown area of rust, next to the clean metal break, it held for a long while but eventually broke. I was fortunate as the loader bucket was low to the ground, I was going down as slope cutting with the rotary mower. Best part was the loader was able to keep the front end up, the mower was enough weight with loaded tires, I was able to back up the slope out of what can be soft conditions, and get to a level area up the hill where I could work on it.
 

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