I have looked at that gap on the tractors after reading your posts from the past about the problems you have had with the oscillation joint. Ours all looked ok. We do not run scraper pans with ours and I have never heard of a problem in that area "around here" which probably has to do with our tractors not being exposed to the more severe operating conditions some see where scrapers are used a lot. There are JD scraper tractors around here used on construction but not too many of them and generally farmers don't use scrapers that much for farming use here. We will look again though. Thanks for the advice.

John