Skid Removal

[jrrayman]

I have a sheared bolt on the front arm to skid. I can not do the bolt and jam nut trick. The other side bolt is so tight I can not get to loosen even with a impact gun.
Is there any other tricks to hold the shaft? I would appreciate any help.

James Rayman

 

[Bushwacker1]

Try drilling the broken bolt so you can get a left handed easyout into it to remove, then use your bolt and nut jamb trick.
If that don't work pull out the grease zirk fitting, drill a hole in the shaft and insert a pin punch into the drilled hole to keep the shaft from spinning. You will need to replace the shaft but you may already be doing that if you cant get the broken bolt out of it.

You could also grind the head of the other bolt off to get the skid out. Then you would have two bolts to remove from the shaft. If you have access to a lathe the shaft could then be chucked up and the bolts could be drilled out for an easy out to remove the bolt.