[AT] New Holland sure thinks highly of their Ford parts :(

[Al Walker]

Call it a "redneck" repair if you want to, but I call it a dang good $110 
idea.
Al in NW MN

-----Original Message----- 
From: Alan Nadeau
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:53 PM
To: ATIS
Subject: [AT] New Holland sure thinks highly of their Ford parts :(

My shooting club has a Ford 4000 that we use for road and range maintenance. 
The 3pt hitch arms are the ones where you pull on a little cable lanyard and 
the end of the lower hitch arms slides out so you have some adjustment for 
hooking up.  On the left arm the locking assembly has pretty much gone 
kaput.  The spring inside looks to have broken in several places and the 
cable is about frayed through so it no longer locks the end of the arm 
properly.

Yesterday I went off to the local NH dealer to see about getting a new one. 
The thing has to be bought as an assembly as, while getting it apart is 
easy, there is no real good way to put it back together.  That is not the 
same as saying it can't be done.

There are no machined parts in it, one crude forging, a small spring ($2-3 
at the hardware store) a short piece of small but stiff wire cable with a 
couple stops swaged onto it and a steel ring to pull the cable with.  We're 
not talking high tech, tight tolerances here.

What we ARE talking is $110.11!   My butt got sore just thinking about it.

Do any of you guys know if anyone might make these things as an aftermarket 
part?  I was figuring maybe $35-45.  I'm 95% sure I can repair it but I just 
don't feel like putting my time into it right now.

New Holland part # is C7NNC882B if it might help.  I don't have squat for 
Google-fu so I have had no luck chasing anything down, no salvage yards 
anywhere around here.

Worst case I'll take the movable part out of the lift arm and figure out 
where the slot, that lets is move, ends when it is latched in place and bore 
a cross hole to intercept the slot and then just put a drawpin in there to 
hold it in place.  Pull the pin, hook up and push the moveable arm back in 
place and pin it.  Crude and pretty redneck, but workable.

Al Nadeau
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