One ton tapered inserts or ream?

[ehall]

Somebody in one of your local clubs might have a reamer already

 

[dan1977p]

You could take knuckles and pitman arm to a machine shop too and probably get them reamed for less than the cost of a reamer.

 

[rockclimber]

I'm not a huge fan of tapered inserts

I had some really well machined ones that were tig welded into my knuckles to go from Heims back to TREs.

Eventually the knuckle cracked around the insert. Especially on a D30 knuckle you remove too much material imo.

I've also personally winched a rig back to camp that failed a pitman arm with one of those split adapters. Twisted it right out of the arm.


My vote is to ream the knuckles properly


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[cal]

you had to winch a rig over a pitman arm failure?

 

[themauler]

you had to winch a rig over a pitman arm failure?

Maybe camp was at the top of the mountain :dunce:

 

[rockclimber]

you had to winch a rig over a pitman arm failure?

he had no steering after that.

custom pitman arm at a somewhat weird angle, none of us had a spare that would work.

winching him around stuff was easier than anything else.