My tow mixer locked up on me last year and when I pulled the rear cover off a lot of broken gear pieces fell out. I think it was bad from the git-go as one wheel would lock up and skid and I would have to back up a bit and then take off again..It did this sporadically at first and gradually got worse and died but it held together for 3 or 4 years and a lot of blocks. I pulp heavy soaked cardboard and fill the tank and mound it before filling with water. It puts a severe strain on the machine as my Dodge diesel 3/4 pickup grunts a bit in first gear to get it moving. I am rebuilding it with another differential currently. I made the mistake of welding the trailer frame directly to the axle tubes so now I'm making a seperate frame and hitch and will fasten the diff with u bolts as I should have done in the first place. I'm not sure that the water that gets in the oil would cause things to break up as it travels at such a slow speed. Proper lubrication and
good oil would be more critical at faster speeds of course but I can't see any great heat buildup at such a slow speed. I am going to put soaked newspaper in the bottom of the mix from now on and maybe that would ease the load when starting up. If that fails I will have to load it in stages. I don't want to do that but that would be preferable to another breakdown.
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On Thu, 7/3/14, Alan rustaholic777@yahoo.com [papercreters] <papercreters@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [papercreters] tow mixer locked
To: "papercreters@yahoogroups.com" <papercreters@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2014, 3:19 PM
I really hope you removed
the brakes from you axle.If
they are in there it is easy for them to lock it all up.
Alan
From:
"Bornofthehorses bornofthehorses@yahoo.com
[papercreters]" <papercreters@yahoogroups.com>
To:
"papercreters@yahoogroups.com"
<papercreters@yahoogroups.com>
Sent:
Thursday, July 3, 2014 12:37 PM
Subject: Re:
[papercreters] tow mixer locked
It may have locked up
because of lack of fluid in the diffy, a chipped tooth on a
gear that locked the gears bad hub bearings no grease in
them also either way it should be opened up and inspected
there are many many things that can lock up a empty
mixer.
Ken
Lead Follow or get the Hell out of the Way
deepdesertsurvival
On , Bornofthehorses
<bornofthehorses@yahoo.com> wrote:
You may have PC in
the diffy if your recipe has had cement in it most likely
your going to have to take the diffy apart and clean it out
.We have had to do that few times in the last 10 years.
Ken
Lead Follow or get the Hell out of the Way
deepdesertsurvival
On Thursday, July 3,
2014 9:05 AM, "spaceman
Spaceman@starship-enterprises.net [papercreters]"
<papercreters@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Tow mixers have a tendency to leak water into the
differential, and
that emulsifies with the oil inside. You can get rust on
the gears
and bearings.
You can flip it over and remove the cover from the
differential to
see what's going on inside. You might be able to
carefully apply
leverage to the gears and break it loose but remember
that those
gears are really hard steel and fairly brittle because
of that, so
don't bang on them!
On 7/3/2014
6:31 AM,
blazingsaddles@frontiernet.net
[papercreters] wrote:
My tow mixer is several years old and I
haven't used it
in a couple of years, I went to use it the other
day and the
blade will not turn, the mixer will not move
forward. Any
ideas on how to loosen it all up? There is some
rust, I don't
know if that's the whole reason or what.
I've sprayed it with
WD40'w rust dissolver and smacked the blade a
few times with a
hammer to try to knock it loose but nothing so
far. I'm
hoping I don't have to replace the axle,
really hoping!
Anyone else have this happen?
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Thursday, July 3, 2014
Re: [papercreters] tow mixer locked
