[SEL] Spam> Conundrum/Puzzle/Stumped

[Bruce Younger]

I am at my wits’ end on a mechanical problem.  I know someone here has the knowledge to
point me in the right direction.

 

I have a bicycle rack that mounts in a receiver hitch.  It fastens using a bolt that goes where the
hitch pin normally goes, but with a twist. 
It is threaded on the head end, but reduced in diameter on the opposite
end.  The rack is 1 – ¼”, the receiver is
2”.  There is an adapter sleeve that fits
in the receiver, surrounding the rack on three sides.  The bolt goes in on the
side where the 1 – ¼” stock is next to the inside of the receiver, thence through the adapter sleeve, and out the other
side.  That end of the bolt, as
mentioned, is reduced in diameter and drilled for a linch pin to serve as a
safety device, so if the bolt should come loose it can’t fall completely
out.  The inner wall of the 1 – ¼” stock
is threaded.

 

I removed the rack from the receiver to replace the adapter
sleeve, as it had become worn  and
allowed too much movement of the rack. 
Somehow in the reinstallation, the the bolt hung up and apparently
cross-threaded – at any rate, it will not go in, will not come out.  I have tried driving the small end, and a
pickle fork and a three pounder on the head end.  I tried an impact wrench in conjunction with
the pickle fork  I can make no
progress.  We are fixin’ to go on the
road again in a week, and I can’t take off without resolving this.  If it comes to it, I will saw it off, or find
someone with a cutting torch and cut it off. 
Who has a better idea?

 

Bruce Younger   

05G HHC 313 RR Bn 3/67-4/68   

Madison, SD  

sluggo54 at hotmail.com   



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