Bent front arm.

Kimhamm

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I acquired this mower
From the city. By the looks of it they ran into a large object. The front right arm is about 1” higher than left causing the tire not ti touch ground. Needing advice on solution.
 

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Might be easier to lower the caster than straighten the arm. Don't know what tools you have.
 

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There's a few ways to do this involving Oxy torch and chains.
You have to heat up the bent portion (I assume it's supposed to be straight?)
and rig up something to unbend.

A much easier way might be to have a welder simply replace the bent portion. That's just a square tube and a fairly easy thing to do. And the welder can reuse that OEM wheel mounting.

You can also cut from the top down in the bent portion (not all the way through), straighten and weld in new metal.

Repaint with Kubota Orange II.
 
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Without seeing the whole thing, hard to say what my approach would be. Probably start by putting that part of the wheel mount that looks like a pipe under something that won't move, and placing a bottle jack under the square arm as close to the deck as possible and jack it.
 

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If you're going to do the work yourself the simplest cure would be to use a cut-off wheel and cut a slot in the inside and bottom of the arm that is bent. Then it would be simple to get straight. Then weld a plate over the area.
 
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TheOldHokie

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I acquired this mower
From the city. By the looks of it they ran into a large object. The front right arm is about 1” higher than left causing the tire not ti touch ground. Needing advice on solution.
I think you need to put a Port-a-Power body/frame repair kit on your Xmas list.

Dan
 
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fried1765

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To get it fixed right......take it to a welding, or autobody repair shop!
 
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yes D2C !
put straight edge on the beam so see where the bend is, mark the deepest part of the bend, cut bottom and sides,grind off paint, 'level' the beam, weld it up. this could be the easiest way.

curious though... why no paint on the 'bar' under the K in Kubota ?
 

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Looks like the axle for the anti-scalp wheels might also need straightened.

I have a welder so I’d be in favor, if it was mine, to cut that tubing, top and side pieces, but not cut the bottom piece of the tubing, and then force the front piece of the tubing down until the tire touched the flat surface that the mower is sitting on.

Then welding up the tubing, and possibly putting a small piece of plate over the top area if I felt like it needed it.

If you can’t weld things could be different I suppose…
 
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Looks like the axle for the anti-scalp wheels might also need straightened.

I have a welder so I’d be in favor, if it was mine, to cut that tubing, top and side pieces, but not cut the bottom piece of the tubing, and then force the front piece of the tubing down until the tire touched the flat surface that the mower is sitting on.

Then welding up the tubing, and possibly putting a small piece of plate over the top area if I felt like it needed it.

If you can’t weld things could be different I suppose…
If you are going to weld why not cut it out completely and weld in a new tube?

Dan
 

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If you are going to weld why not cut it out completely and weld in a new tube?

Dan
Simplicity vs complexity. As soon as you cut it free, you have to worry about holding it in place properly, and so on and so forth, before you weld.

If it is held in place by the bottom of the tubing, and if the tubing doesn’t look like it’s distorted too much to the left or right side, which it appears to be OK in the photo, then the quick, dirty, and pretty accurate, way to resolve the issue is just do what I suggested. (As did others previously I think).

That’s my logic. Right wrong. I’m not claiming to be an expert. Just claiming to express what I think I would do if that was my situation.
 
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