Pin won't take grease

[Joe Kelly]

Hi Folks!

I have an LA853 FEL on my L5030 and have had trouble getting the upper bucket cylinder pin to take grease. Now having reinstalled the FEL after a winter off, that pin will not take grease, period.

The pin is 1" plus diameter and retained with a small (5/16"?) bolt and elastic stop nut.

My question is can I drive out the pivot pin from either direction once I remove the small retaining bolt? And is driving it with a punch and hammer OK, as opposed to rigging up a jacking arrangement?

JoeK

 

[BotaDriver]

Just make sure the pin is unloaded and not under pressure. Removing the small bolt should allow it to just slip out. It shouldn't need much force to remove it, as long as there isn't pressure on it. Depending on which one it is, be prepared for a cylinder to come lose. Might slip it out with a screw driver, leaving the screw driver in place to retain position/hold up anything.

 

[Wbk]

Hi Folks!

I have an LA853 FEL on my L5030 and have had trouble getting the upper bucket cylinder pin to take grease. Now having reinstalled the FEL after a winter off, that pin will not take grease, period.

The pin is 1" plus diameter and retained with a small (5/16"?) bolt and elastic stop nut.

My question is can I drive out the pivot pin from either direction once I remove the small retaining bolt? And is driving it with a punch and hammer OK, as opposed to rigging up a jacking arrangement?

JoeK

Hi Joe before you go to the trouble of removing the pin you could try to remove the grease fitting and dig out the dried up grease (a small drill bit works pretty good for that). If you have to remove the pin try using a soft metal pin approximately the same size and a large hammer. The more times you hit the pin you increase the chances of mushrooming it, don't use a air hammer. Sometimes a little heat helps but you'll burn the paint. Good luck Barry

 

[Dave_eng]

I have had some luck with this type of tool. In simple terms you fill it with oil, connect to grease fitting and bash it with a hammer forcing the oil into the fitting to flush out solidified grease.

http://reviews.northerntool.com/0394/403100/ipa-grease-fitting-cleaner-reviews/reviews.htm


Dave M7040

 

[Bulldog]

Like already mentioned I would try to remove the grease fitting and clean out the old grease before I removed the pin itself. Could be the fitting itself is the problem and not the pin anyway.

 

[Joe Kelly]

Thank you, guys!

Great advice about try the simple step first; I never thought of that! Guess it's my pessimistic nature! I will pull the grease fitting and see if it's the blockage before proceeding to pull the pin!

Joe K