445 rear 540 PTO

[Richard001]

To answer BeenThere, I do have the technical cd, but finding anything on that has been a lesson in frustration! I most likely need a better PDF reader. I hate Adobe and won't put that on my computer, but the one I'm using isn't all that great.

Well lets see, your current PDF viewer works like crap, but you don't want a better viewer because you don't like
adobe. Why don't you like Adobe? It has always worked great for me.

Bite the bullet, go for Adobe, live with it.

Richard

 

[wwivhobbit]

I didn't say it works like crap. In fact, it's worked very well for many years. When I say it's not all that great, I really meant that it lacks some of the bells and whistles that I've seen before, like the Index and pages, but that might just be the PDF file itself that lacks that information, and without trying anything else I don't want to blame one thing or the other As far as why I took Adobe out, it was because it got into every aspect of the PC and made a mess out of my registry! I ended up formatting my hd and reinstalling Windows to get rid of it! At any rate, they might have changed it, as it's been 15-20 years since i had the last fight with it, so maybe it's better now

 

[wwivhobbit]

Just a followup on the original PTO situation. I got it installed and fired up the tractor and the mower started right up. This is BEFORE pulling up on the PTO knob. Long story short, I fought it for a couple of weeks, trying everything and finally removed the rear PTO kit, the rear hydraulic kit I also bought for it, and put the stock cover back on, with a brand new PTO solenoid and it did the same thing! I then went and bought a new PTO switch and installed that and it didn't change anything so was about to load it onto a trailer and take it to the Deere doctor, when my brother (who's a great mechanic) showed up and convinced me to pull out the PTO solenoid and the guts below it so he could look at everything and found a diagram that showed it going in the reverse direction. We inserted the thing in the reverse direction and voila! It works like brand new again! The installation instructions that came with the 540 Rear PTO picture does show it correctly, but it's so blurry in the printed version I had that I saw it wrong, and the parts exploded view that I found elsewhere showed it in reverse! Beware of those things!

 

[beenthere]

Good information to know, and glad you stuck with it to eventually get it all working. This is what TBN is all about. :thumbsup:

 

[wwivhobbit]

Yeah, once I get caught up with all of the mowing that's been neglected while I try to figure this out, I plan on reinstalling everything, along with the 3-pt. hitch that's been sitting in the box, awaiting install! I won't have the dash lights or any safety features without the proper wiring, but I'm not concerned with that, so much as being able to actually do something with this thing!