ams30gts Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 My PW autodrive finally arrived and now I'm having trouble setting it up. I followed all the instructions until you need to make the adjustments. I try and rotate it by hand, but it won't make a complete revolution. I believe I need to adjust the actuating arm either longer or shorter, but for the love of god I can't get the lock nuts to budge. I tried 2 wrenches and the nut is starting to round. Is there something I am doing wrong? This is how far it will go before the clutch kicks in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmorris Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) Almost looks like it is binding on the shaft the lever mounts too. What direction do you have it rotating? Adjustable wrenches are made to be a last ditch tool. They are best at rounding nuts and bolts. Get a box end wrench or a 6 point socket is even better. Edited December 21, 2014 by jmorris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ams30gts Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 I actually took the arm off and put it in a vise. Used a combination wrench and it still wouldn't budge. I can only assume PW used air tools on something meant to be hand tightened. This is the final result on the nut.. You can probably feel my frustration. My autodrive took 4 days to ship when it was supposed to in 1-2 days. Shipper forgot to put my unit number on the address label so I had to call to get that fixed and delivered the next day. The day of delivery the Fedex driver decided to cut his day short and say I wasn't home when He tried to deliver. Then I had to call Fedex to complain and go pick it up on the next day. I finally get my autodrive and the bolts are so tight the bolts holding my vise on a 1" ply workbench almost ripped out. Now I have to wait til Monday to call PW and most likely have to send the arm back to them and wait another 2 weeks before I can be back up and running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPRSkip Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 At this point I would chisel the nut off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alecmc Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 I know nothing about the autodrive, but the nut isn't something silly like a reverse thread is it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPRSkip Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 I know nothing about the autodrive, but the nut isn't something silly like a reverse thread is it ? Good idea but it doesn't look like it in the pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmorris Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Put the nut in a vise and turn the heim joint with a wrench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MstngLX50 Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 The bolts on my PW case pro drive seemed excessively tight from the factory as well. I put the heim joint in a vice and used a proper crows foot and 1/2 in breaker bar. As Jmorris said, the adjustable wrench is a bad plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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