Suspension rusted solid

[rustneversleeps]

Anyone been through rebuilding JD suspension?
My Trailfire 440 suspension is rusted solid.
The aluminum rods that are supposed to pivot inside the steel tubes are rusted/corroded solid, and no amount of heating or banging or soaking has freed them ...so far. Where are the zerks?
I'm about to start drilling.
Suggestions?

[Ryan Hausladen]

i have rebuilt a couple suspesnions, but i have never ran into the shafts frozen in there that hard. You already tried everything i could think of to remove them. the bad thing is as that deere didn't use any grease zerks on there suspensions. they may have in 82 or 83 models but i have never owned one o find out.

[cheap]

Maybe some wd40 or penetrating oil and a bigger hammer?

[CURIOUSGEORGE]

HAD THE SAME PROB. WITH MY 79 SPIT. WD40 AND LOTS OF HEAT,FEW *#@&*(^% WORDS. FOUND THE OUTER TUBE WAS BENT. YOU MAY GET THE SHAFT PART WAY OUT THEN JAMMED. FIND A FRIEND WITH A NEW PEICE OF PIPE TO USE AND GET A NEW SHAFT FROM DENNIS KIRK.