I have a BT900 backhoe with a 24'' bucket and I want to replace it with a 12'' bucket. I got a really good deal on a new original stock 12'' but .....
I have been trying to get the pins out for months now. I have tried the 1/2 acetone / 1/2 ATF trick, tried beating them out (with some mushrooming), tried to actually cut them out with a sawzall; fourteen destroyed blades and maybe a nick on the pin, they must be hardened.
Anyway, I am here to ask the experts, how the heck do you get them out? It's obvious the previous owner did not grease or put oil on anything and it was just a tool to be depreciated and written off. Not me, I want to fix and use this machine for 30 more years.
For the record I work in IT now and raise goats, I don't have a lot of the tools a working farm should have but I am learning and gathering.
May the Orange experts look down on me tonight and enlighten me.
Semper Fi everyone,
Steve
I have been trying to get the pins out for months now. I have tried the 1/2 acetone / 1/2 ATF trick, tried beating them out (with some mushrooming), tried to actually cut them out with a sawzall; fourteen destroyed blades and maybe a nick on the pin, they must be hardened.
Anyway, I am here to ask the experts, how the heck do you get them out? It's obvious the previous owner did not grease or put oil on anything and it was just a tool to be depreciated and written off. Not me, I want to fix and use this machine for 30 more years.
For the record I work in IT now and raise goats, I don't have a lot of the tools a working farm should have but I am learning and gathering.
May the Orange experts look down on me tonight and enlighten me.
Semper Fi everyone,
Steve