Our bobcat t190 has a loose bucket. The bolt that holds the bucket to the arm in the pivot joint is loose. I can spin the bolt both ways and it doesnt get and tighter or looser. How do i go about tightening or replacing it? I didnt look at it too good but i dont see any nut or acess to a nut on the back of it anywhere. Any one seen this problem before?
have you tried pulling on it to see if its broken if you grease it there might be a little suction to it so pull hard other wise the pin may have broken and thats why its not tighting up try putting a pry bar between the arm and bolt head and use an impact to run it up tight it may also be really loose so try putting an impact on it first to replace it pull the pins out of the tilt rod ends remove the power bobtach cylinder if it has one and then loosen both bolts up hit them with a hammer to free them from the taper in the arms then remove the bolts and use a punch to drive the pins in then slip it out and use a long bolt to get in the threads of the bolt and remove you will need a long bolt to reinstall the bobtach on the machine in order to pull the pins back into place check the bushing in the bobtach and the taper on the arms and make sure its not oblonged if it is have your dealer use the reamer and make them round again other wise you will have the same problem again use alot of red lock tight and a impact and go tell the impact stops we use a 1/2 impact
Well ill try some of that tomrro since im done for the day. I did pull on it but only as hard as 2 of my fingures could. Ill let you know how it turns out . Thanks for the response.
Well today i was able to look at it better, and a giant pry bar and air gun drove that bolt right back in. Now im ready for the snow thats coming sat. Thanks BCmech for the insight.
your welcome keep an eye on them its alot cheaper to keep em tight than have the lift arms replaced or the ends cut off and new ends welded on the arms imo its like a tube of grease 2.00 bushings labor pins seals up over 200 dollars to replace per pin and bushing preventive maintance pays off not saying you don't but i have seen alot of problems if caught earlier would have been cheap to fix but in the end 2000 to 3000 dollars later its up and running again