Sparky-(Admin) 21,318 #1 Posted June 17, 2023 My 416-8 will be up for sale soonish so I’m slowly going thru it fixing small and big stuff. Both front wheels are oddballs so I figured I get something that matched mounted up. Check out the first spindle!! How long did the original wheel ride on it! Dang!! 4 3 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky-(Admin) 21,318 #2 Posted June 17, 2023 The “John Deere” side was heavily spacer’d 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 12,232 #4 Posted June 17, 2023 Holy moly, what a mess to find. Guess you’ll b show shoppin’ for a pair of spindles. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squonk 41,129 #5 Posted June 17, 2023 That will buff right out! 1 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky-(Admin) 21,318 #6 Posted June 17, 2023 25 minutes ago, Handy Don said: Holy moly, what a mess to find. Guess you’ll b show shoppin’ for a pair of spindles. So after all these years of collecting and stockpiling parts I had a pair of used but good front spindles “in-stock”….she is fixed 8 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky-(Admin) 21,318 #7 Posted June 17, 2023 It gets better, there was some sorta spacer that clamped onto it. Got that off to reveal another custom groove !! 4 2 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squonk 41,129 #8 Posted June 17, 2023 Looks like you had a Lincoln log for a spindle! 13 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pacer 3,173 #9 Posted June 17, 2023 Reading/looking at this I pretty quickly thought --- would one of the many 'big box' stores offerings stand up to that and function!! Doubtful!! I've had a few worn axle/spindles, but those are .... ???? and still running to boot!! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ri702bill 8,327 #10 Posted June 17, 2023 (edited) Mike - good catch. That must have had the "Gangster Lean" with both bearings riding in the grooves. And NO... JB Weld ( three tubes!!!) is not a "proper" fix - I am surprised the spindle is not bent upward... We have TIG welded MINOR grooves and reshaped them with good success - Keep the clamp collar & washers - toss the spindles... Bearing failure too?? Could always wander thru the woods and grab a pair from Doc --- and leave a note !! Edited June 17, 2023 by ri702bill 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky-(Admin) 21,318 #11 Posted June 17, 2023 18 minutes ago, pacer said: I've had a few worn axle/spindles, but those are .... ???? and still running to boot!! I’m impressed with it enough that it’s going to be a garage wall hanger! 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wallfish 17,000 #12 Posted June 17, 2023 6 minutes ago, Sparky said: I’m impressed with it enough that it’s going to be a garage wall hanger! I was gonna say bring it to the big show. Conversation piece. It is pretty impressive that someone could go that long on it. 1 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,903 #13 Posted June 17, 2023 Baaah like the Dino always tells me… rub some dirt in it and get back to work! 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ri702bill 8,327 #14 Posted June 17, 2023 2 hours ago, Sparky said: I’m impressed with it enough that it’s going to be a garage wall hanger! Back in the mid 1980's I was working two jobs - a fulltime day job and 2 evenings and all day Saturday at the local Goodyear tire store doing front end work. At that time, Kelsey-Hayes was running an "Ugly Rim" contest - The store Manager would submit a picture of some highly abused - misused sad excuse of a wheel from a customer's car. We had one from a woman that the left front tire went flat while driving her Chevette. She had this "I don't care, I can make it" attitude. Drove it and the tire disintergrated and fell off, she rode it on the steel rim until there was NO MORE rim, only the spider. She got pulled over and tried to drive off, but the lower ball joint was caught in a depression in the road! That "rim" did not win - it was relegated to be wall art in the service bay. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wallfish 17,000 #15 Posted June 17, 2023 That guy got every single cent outta that spindle. Then adds the spacer to move the "bearings", or what was left of them over a bit to start on a couple more grooves! 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ri702bill 8,327 #16 Posted June 17, 2023 Yup, John - as Ben Franklin once said "Common Sense is uncommon".... another backyard, hackyard quickie "fix"...!! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kpinnc 12,065 #17 Posted June 17, 2023 Looks like a seat post clamp from a bicycle. Never seen one used like that! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ranger 1,750 #18 Posted June 17, 2023 Don’t throw them away! Ideal candidates for spindle upgrades, (after weld repair with 7018 rods, then sleeving to accept 1” bearing hubs)! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lynnmor 7,307 #19 Posted June 17, 2023 2 hours ago, wallfish said: That guy got every single cent outta that spindle. Then adds the spacer to move the "bearings", or what was left of them over a bit to start on a couple more grooves! Plus he saved a lot of money on grease, greasy Pete is wrong for such waste. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeM 7,874 #20 Posted June 17, 2023 you got a spare camshaft now! high lift for rollers. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jon Paulsen 290 #21 Posted June 18, 2023 Whaaaaa? It's only half gone. You could have just let the new owner have the spares and he could go ahead and use that one up That's a wow and good thing you didn't get hurt. I lost a friend in high school when he was pulling tandom trailers, the back one went in the ditch on a corner, and that flipped the front trailer, and that flipped the tractor, and he was no more. Looking back, I can't believe the stuff that didn't kill us. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Moonshine*Connoisseur 435 #22 Posted June 18, 2023 Proof right there that horse and deere parts don't get along real well lol. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Retired Wrencher 5,459 #23 Posted June 20, 2023 Mike I have seen every thing now what people do to these tractors to save a buck. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rick 55 BB 24 #24 Posted July 5, 2023 So tell me , when you run across wore spindles , what do you guys do to fix "repair" them ? Weld them up and grind them by hand ? I thought I had some spare ones but I have 3 worn sets , lol 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky-(Admin) 21,318 #25 Posted July 5, 2023 57 minutes ago, Rick 55 BB said: So tell me , when you run across wore spindles , what do you guys do to fix "repair" them ? Weld them up and grind them by hand ? I thought I had some spare ones but I have 3 worn sets , lol I replaced mine, but it was worn out like no other! Best way to get a new or used set is to contact A-Z tractor or K and B Wheel Horse, both vendors right here on Redsquare. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
