I start out with the best intentions because I like this kind of thing. Built race motors when younger and competed at a national level. An engine is so easy compared to a transmission. My trouble starts when things do not go as expected which they never do. For instance, loosening all the bolts holding on the
pto in my mind should have it fall in my hands. Oh no. Had to have fabricated a tool to pull the darn thing off. I learn about the tool when I go up to my JD dealer 28 miles away and ask why the
pto isn't falling into my hands. So the mechanic shows me what he uses. Of course he doesn't offer for me to borrow it and I don't even ask. This was right at the beginning and on and on it went for me. The tractor cost me $700 to fix. They would of charged $1100 with the labor. It took me 3 weeks to fix or about 80 hours. They would do it 24. I'm not sure its worth it for me. My difference is I don't settle into a problem as you guys do, I let it get to me and as hard as I try for it not to, it always happens. I now have a noise I never had in the tractor. If it happened like this to one of you, you'd just take it apart again. I just want to bring a shot gun to it. That's why I respect your kind of guys so much. I need to be rewired.
Lou