I was fairly certain that PTOs were standard all around, but now I'm not certain. I tried for hours to get my new Lorenz 430 snowblower's PTO shaft attached to the BX, but it just won't snap in securely. I finally measured the distance from the PTO coupler lip to the ball bearings used to retain the shaft on the tractor's PTO, and compared that measurement to the distance from the tractor's rear seal to the groove on the PTO shaft and it appears to be a 1/4 inch too short. As in, if I wanted the coupler to snap into the groove, I would have to force the snowblower's PTO coupling 1/4" into the rear end of the tractor!
Any ideas? Aren't these things supposed to be universal??
Any ideas? Aren't these things supposed to be universal??