jonsstihl
Veteran Member
removing the cover will let you visually inspect inside and see if any more damage was done. If you get away with having only damaged the front cover, I think you can go get yourself a lotto ticket because other cases I have heard about involved internal damage. What you have done essentially is used a too long shaft to shove the PTO stub shaft into the transmission. I don't know if your extension bottomed out on the pto stub and pushed hard on the shaft and bearings or if you got lucky and the extension slide over the shaft and only pushed on the cover, while you have the cover off, I would take a good look at what is on the other end of that pto stubshaft inside the transmission.