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I own a small hobby farm in very rural Wales.. so finding stuff can be challenging. The gardens are extensive (let alone the actual meadows and woodlands)

This rod end issue became more curious. I set it up in the mill to skim the broken thread flat before drilling.. had a happy accident when i set the rough cut endmill a tad low and caught the side of one remaining thread.. when the stud spun out! I had just one same thread bolt in my 'old bolt' box.. so made a temorary repair to find that the track rod end doesn't sit right in the taper anyway and is different to the rod end on the other end – so a previous gash repair.

I wasn't too suprised to find my fix failed just at the end of cutting the lawns.

I've tried to remove the opposite rod end but it won't tap out. Access to it is through a mess of hydraulic hoses and it'd be challenging to strip all that out of the way. the lazy answer is scrounge up a proper rod end from a dealer for this mower if parts can be sourced – although I may go for a second fix redrilling the old threads out to a larger size. This side is (I guess) a 5/16 thead compared to the other side at 7/16. And the gash bolt I used wasn't high tensile. I;ve got some high tensile M10's about for a second temp fix…