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West Central Wisconsin | Been working on my 6620 combine trying to get some of the slop out of the rear steering axle. Upon removing the tapered tie-rod end of the steering cylinder I noticed the tapered hole on the spindle is egg-shaped and sloppy, (#5, http://jdpc.deere.com/jdpc/servlet/com.deere.u90490.partscatalog.vi... . I dropped it off at a machine shop to see if could be built back up and then drilled using a reamer to the same specs as the tie-rod taper. They don't have such a reamer so now I'm looking for advice or a site that might carry these reamers. The machinist says it's about a 5 degree taper and the hole diameter for the threaded shank is 9/16" or 5/8". Is this the best way to go about this or are there other options. BTW, a new one is $600+. Another thought was to use a plasma or EDT? to cut out the bad hole and replace it with another hole from a donor spindle. Your thoughts? Joe | |
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Repairing tapered hole, (tie-rod).
