Tim Stuart
Silver Member
- Joined
- Jun 5, 2007
- Messages
- 127
- Location
- Coldspring, TX
- Tractor
- Mitsubishi bd2h dozer, Gradall G3WD, New Holland TC35a, Chevy Dump Truck
Guys I was hoping one of you could give me some insight on what I am facing to put the PTO back into my Mahindra 575. I have a PTO drive shaft from my brush hog stuck on my PTO output of my tractor. So being a pretty day yesterday I figured I would go out and get it off. The brush hog PTO shaft is one of the older style push button releases on it and the button was gone. I took a punch and tried pushing in where the button was but that did not work. The PTO tractor output has a metal shield that goes around it to keep debris and shirt sleeves ect.. out. From getting caught in the u joint on the drive shaft. The shield was held on by 3 nuts that were finger tight so I thought that I would get that out of the way so I could see the push button lock mechanism on the drive shaft. So I removed them with my fingers and took the shield out of the way. I than oiled up the pto splines so I could get the drive shaft off, I started to pull against the drive shaft with my bare hands and the whole PTO shaft came out of the tractor and I when over backwards on my *****. Than it seem like 15 gallons of hydraulic fluid went pouring out on me. The 3 nuts, what I thought was holding the PTO cover shield on was in fact holding the entire PTO shaft in the tractor. I than get up off the ground holding the PTO shaft out of my tractor in my hand. I tried to stick it back in but I could not feel the hole on the inside of the tractor that the pto shaft slides into. So I thought I had tore enough stuff up for the day So I just stop. This happed so fast it was like a bad cartoon. (To me) My question is does anybody know what it will take to get the PTO shaft back in the tractor correctly? Will I have to split the tractor? Does anybody have any diagrams?