Adding inside wheel weights

Milk · Feb 26, 2022

Were attempting to add 1500# inside wheel weights to our JD 9400 tractor but having problems with getting the inside wheel off. outside dual came off without much effort but inside wheel wont budge. Anyone else try doing this? We didnt think that it was going to be such a tough job,were we wrong!Wheelis bolted to a cas hub, you have to remove the bolts and install bolts taken out in threaded cast hub thereby pushing it back away from the hub. We have so much pressure from the four bolts threaded into the hub, that I am afraid that anymore will break the hub cast! Has anyone attempted this? Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks so much!!

tomstractorsandtoys · Feb 26, 2022

Smack the end of the axle as hard as you can with as big of a hammer as you can swing. Every hit you will be able to turn the pusher bolts a
little more. Deal with this often on 3020 and 4020's. Tom

Milk · Feb 26, 2022

Will try! Thanks

big tee · Feb 27, 2022

Sounds like the same setup as our 8760. I don't know what you used so far for putting pressure on the wedge but we have the best luck with impact wrenches. We run the bolts in with a 1/2 in. then a 3/4 and if that won't pop them we get the 1 in. I know you won't want to use the hot wrench but we have used our LP fired space heater real close to the hub to heat things up. Heat it up--let it cool down-rattle on them and do it again..Good Luck---Tee

caterpillar guy · Mar 3, 2022

Sounds like just sawing the weights in half then putting on as half weights would be easier. Will not lose that much and you could turn them so the split is at quarter turns to help with support for the bolts. I did that on an 806 a couple years ago. Put 3 150's on the inside then 2 more whole ones on the outside. didn't have to mess with the axle that way. Turning put the split crossways of he previous weight so all four bolts are holding them on rather than a stack of 3 halves on each pair of bolts.

Tx Jim · Mar 3, 2022

JD weights have 3 attaching bolts per weight. Yrs back I installed many sets of inside & outside JD wheel weights

If I'm thinking about this correctly cutting weight in 1/2 will have 1/2 of weight attached by 1 bolt & then changing weight orientation for next weight will have total #s of two 1/2 weights(full weight 159#s)supported by one(1) M6 bolt.

Rear axle hub clamps appear to be similar to my 4255. f I'm correct JD dealer should have special tool for the purpose of relocating/removing from axle the cast centers

rlp in Co. · Mar 7, 2022

I tried for a month to get the axle shims
loose on my tw35 Ford. I never did get
one side off! The other side, I broke the
shim getting the shim off. A half if a
shim from a junkyard was over a hundred
dollars! I think the devil designed those
shims! I even drove it up and down and
around with the bolts loose!

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