WhoWasJohnGalt
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Every year about this time I spend a painful hour or two trying to wrestle the PTO connector from my brush mower to my JD3046R. I have white lithium greased the male end on the tractor and all the parts of the female coupler, making sure the two ball bearings recess easily. But when I line up the splines, I can never get more than about 3/4 of The tip into the female connector and then no amount of wrestling, wiggling, jiggling or kicking can get that shaft engaged fully (see photo). Usually after an hour ow two it will magically finally click into place and look at me as if to say was that so hard? This morning I pulled a muscle in my back and popped my hip out of joint and still could not get the PTO engaged. I have tried adjusting the height on the implement to have the shaft straight and also tried it slightly higher. I had to leave for my off farm job so I知 looking for pointers before I head out again this afternoon. Any thoughts?