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[glcaines]

Is it possible that the control arm was bent, making it slightly shorter and this is why the holes don't line up? If so, when the control arm was bent that may be what caused the bolt to shear off.

 

[rtrask]

Is it possible that the control arm was bent, making it slightly shorter and this is why the holes don't line up? If so, when the control arm was bent that may be what caused the bolt to shear off.

It's not bent as far as I can tell. For sure it's not bent enough to make it that short. There is no sign the control arm had fallen down and drug. For sure that would have bent it if it had. There was a stub of the bolt still in the bracket that I suspect held it in place until it was parked.

I did not mention it in the previous post, but the hole in the mounting bracket the bolt goes through was kind of wallowed out. It had been working back and forth for a while. I was using the front end loader to scrape weeds off disturbed soil. While doing that I ran into an occasional rock, and I suspect that is what caused it to shear off.

 

[The FLU farm]

If the rod hasn't changed length, move the chassis over to make the holes line up.