johnnydel29
Bronze Member
Last summer, I posted a thread regarding MY PTO on my 2305 completely getting destroyed while brush mowing w/ a King Kutter 4' mower. I noticed that this happened to someone else w/ an LX-4 on this forum. Luckily, Deere completely reparied the PTO under warrenty. The total cost was a little over $4000.00.
I did some research and spoke to some very experienced Deere mechanics at different dealers and a few mentioned that you MUST be real careful when using the PTO on this machine. The reason is that the 2305 is is a very powerful machine with a very small body. In other words, it is a lawn mower on steriods. The gears in that PTO are small, compared to the larger machines. Therefore, the smaller gears become damaged easily, and over time they get worse (when you hit rocks). And one day, like that aweful warm summer evening when I was bush mowing, I hit a rock and those gears exploded before that shear pin even had a chance to break.
Even though the machine is repaired, I decided not to use the rear PTO much, just sparingly for brush mowing.
Now I have another problem. It is leaking hydro fluid where the rear crank shaft enters the housing. Deere picked it up and they are going to see what they can do to repair. This was my fear. Once these complex parts are taken apart and put back together, they can potentially be never the same. I am thinking, I may end up selling the machine in a few years.
Once agian, even though we feel like this little monster can do it all, be careful.
I did some research and spoke to some very experienced Deere mechanics at different dealers and a few mentioned that you MUST be real careful when using the PTO on this machine. The reason is that the 2305 is is a very powerful machine with a very small body. In other words, it is a lawn mower on steriods. The gears in that PTO are small, compared to the larger machines. Therefore, the smaller gears become damaged easily, and over time they get worse (when you hit rocks). And one day, like that aweful warm summer evening when I was bush mowing, I hit a rock and those gears exploded before that shear pin even had a chance to break.
Even though the machine is repaired, I decided not to use the rear PTO much, just sparingly for brush mowing.
Now I have another problem. It is leaking hydro fluid where the rear crank shaft enters the housing. Deere picked it up and they are going to see what they can do to repair. This was my fear. Once these complex parts are taken apart and put back together, they can potentially be never the same. I am thinking, I may end up selling the machine in a few years.
Once agian, even though we feel like this little monster can do it all, be careful.
