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jbrewer 03-21-2020 04:24 PM

Those specially shaped bolts....
 
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I knew these were going to be crusty, so I PB Blasted them thoroughly before I started working on them with a 6 point box wrench.

They all came out (carefully).

These are the bolts holding the seat frame to the fender pans on my super scruffy 122 (that is now my go-to tractor).

I was SURE I was going to snap one off, but all three came out (the DPO only had three in , thankfully!)

athomas 03-21-2020 04:52 PM

Good deal ! they were on shaky ground for twisting off ! PB is as good as any, the key to any penetrant is giving it enough soak time to work !:beerchug:

ol'George 03-21-2020 05:45 PM

looks to me as ya done got most of the good out of them!:biggrin2:

darkminion_17 03-21-2020 06:17 PM

There you go.

jbrewer 03-21-2020 07:58 PM

Yeah I think I got my moneys worth out of these.

I got these to move a bit with some gentle wrenching and PB , the flooded em with more PB and more back and forth.

I got lucky!

West Valley G 03-21-2020 10:55 PM

Looks good, be extra careful putting em back in

Ken

guido 03-22-2020 03:12 AM

Those are definitely special looking fasteners. Another NLA item. Maybe Jeff can whip out a few for you. :biggrin2:

jbrewer 03-22-2020 06:29 PM

I have successfully taken them out of the gene pool. :beer2:

IHCubCadet147 03-22-2020 07:43 PM

They certainly earned their retirement.

cooperino 03-23-2020 10:43 AM

Todays bolts would have snapped for sure.. Good steel back then! :beerchug:


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