After failing miserably with my latest plan re. getting the fuel tank plug out, I decided to stay out and do something else to the mog this afternoon. I had a good rummage through my parts pile and found my top link bracket. I gave that a good going over with a wire brush mounted in my drill, then greased it all up and bolted it on. Easy! Then I found the Ringfeder hitch, and the problems started!
The hitch was seized solid. I've been here before having been treated very kindly by a certain UK dealer who sold me the whole back end of a scrap lame spreader mog for a very reasonable price. I should add that he told me the score when I bought it and I accepted the challenge of getting the parts off and cleaned up. It was a challenge I was happy to take on to save what turned out to be quite a lot of money. I've actually had it apart once already but it got put back together without me paying enough attention to it the last time, so it stuck solid again.
I got it in the vice and with a bit (well actually a lot) of swearing and hammering managed to get the old thing apart again. This time though I've been thorough! I've taken it right down to it's component parts, brushed them down and covered them with enough grease to sink a small ship. I then set about fitting it to the mog. After hitting my head god knows how many times and getting covered in s*** I'm glad to say it's on and rotating as it should. But I've now noticed something rather odd...
How does the top link function with the hitch fitted? The top of the hitch is pretty much the same height as the holes in the top link bracket! I rotated the hitch 180 degrees which gives more room for movement, but it still looks tight. I really do hope that the two can work together but I'm not so sure how having looked at it!
My last question is the function of the hitch. When the release bar is pushed it moves the spring loaded pin up into the hitch and the pin stays there. How do you get it to come back down to lock in place? The only way I can do it at the moment is to give it a good tap with a hammer or wooden block in the direction you'd push it to open it. It then springs back down again. I can't however do that by hand. It's not that it seems to be needing a lot of force, rather that the softness of my hand doesn't seem to be able to give it the sharp tap that it needs. Just a gentle flick of a small hammer does it easily, but I'm sure that's not how it should be?!
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