D7 17A Tighten up the blade.

I have an angle blade on the D7. It can be centered, angled left or angled right by selecting the appropriate holes on the U-frame. It has a lot of slop up and down at the corners which make it hard to do certain kinds of dozing where I want to keep the side sloping under control. Any ideas on how to tighten it up would be appreciated.

The blade will have to come of the U frame, so you can see the wear. It could be the pin or the brackets on the blade or the U frame itself has worn. Probably some wear in all the points that move on the center of blade. If your lucky fixing one might be enough.

Hi, TOP.

As an 'emergency' measure, you can wind the tilt braces either all the way forward or all the way back on BOTH sides. This will help to take SOME of the movement out. How much it can take out will depend on the total amount of wear and where it is.

But, as Ray54 has said, you need to take the blade OFF the C-frame to see where some of the wear is, especially around the center pivot and swivel - and to be able to fix it. Wear in the angle braces and the receivers on the C-frame can be deal with while the blade is in place.

Just my 0.02.