Building up u-joint cap bore? (PTO shaft repair)

   / Building up u-joint cap bore? (PTO shaft repair)
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#11  
The first thing I would ask myself is if it fails what will happen? Is the bad yoke on the tractor side or attachment side? If the yoke breaks you are suddenly going to have a driveshaft flailing around. If it's connected to the tractor it'll either break your tractor or the driveshaft long before you can push the clutch in. If it's on the attachment side hopefully the slip clutch or sheer pin will give before doing too much damage. But the loose end of the sliding part of the shaft could get launched before it stops spinning. I'm all for cheap fixes but not when it could be very costly down the road.

You can try to wedge a feeler gauge in between the cap and yoke. But I wouldn't go very far before checking to make sure it's not working it's way out.

Now that I read this, you’re right, I definitely don’t want to take any chances.

I’m just going to buy the new pieces I need or it might be cheaper to buy the whole assembly...

Thanks everyone for the responses and ideas.
 
   / Building up u-joint cap bore? (PTO shaft repair)
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#12  
Yolk's have to do with eggs. You mean YOKE....
You mean Yolks right?

Or should we go into how to use an apostrophe correctly?

😂
 
   / Building up u-joint cap bore? (PTO shaft repair)
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#13  
Originally I was going to just buy half of the drive shaft ($100) and the coupler for the tractor side ($65) since I already had the ujoints ($60 for both)

TSC didn’t have what I needed in stock so I returned the ujoints and it was a better deal to just replace the entire assembly as a whole ($285) so that’s the route I went. This weasler pto shaft (#14006437) worked great for my older 6ft bush hog. Probably cut with it for 6-7 hours already.

 

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