pto winch shear pin

Thrupp · Post by **Thrupp** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:39 am

I broke my shear pin on my pto off my 70 series Landcruiser trying to winch petemcc out. Have a spare replacement pin, but I cant figure out how to get the old one out? Should I get a punch and remove it that way or does it have a thread? Do I have to dissassemble it and remove the pin that way? The new pin has a thread for half of the pin.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Sadam_Husain · Post by **Sadam_Husain** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:01 am

Had a quick look at the one sitting on the floor of my shed, its not easy looking down a 4mm hole but it dosent seem to be threaded :scratch:

PR · Post by PR » Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:48 am

I just did the one on the little womens Safari cause she broke it trying to winch me out. Just punch it out then put a bolt back through it will be easyer to replace then in the bush or mud :twisted:

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:17 pm

PR wrote:I just did the one on the little womens Safari cause she broke it trying to winch me out. Just punch it out then put a bolt back through it will be easyer to replace then in the bush or mud

The sheer pin is designed to be the week point so you dont break cables etc. I wouldnt put a bolt in unless you knew what load it would break at.
Better to break the odd shear pin than anything else! :wink:

PR · Post by PR » Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:41 pm

Aaron wrote:
PR wrote:I just did the one on the little womens Safari cause she broke it trying to winch me out. Just punch it out then put a bolt back through it will be easyer to replace then in the bush or mud

The sheer pin is designed to be the week point so you dont break cables etc. I wouldnt put a bolt in unless you knew what load it would break at.
Better to break the odd shear pin than anything else!

I would not use a high tensile bolt just a old crap bolt, done it before with no probs if anything they seem to break easyer

tgaguy1 · Post by **tgaguy1** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:58 pm

I have installed a grade 8.8 bolt in the pto box end and a 4.6 in the winch end on my Patrol. The theory is the winch end will shear first (easy to change). I did shear the pto end one time when I was running proper shear pins. Very hard messy job to replace in the middle of a mucky tack. Just my 2c worth.

PR · Post by PR » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:59 am

tgaguy1 wrote:I have installed a grade 8.8 bolt in the pto box end and a 4.6 in the winch end on my Patrol. The theory is the winch end will shear first (easy to change). I did shear the pto end one time when I was running proper shear pins. Very hard messy job to replace in the middle of a mucky tack. Just my 2c worth.

Cheers that sounds like a better system then what I put in