Kioti LK3054 PTO

CaliEscapee · Aug 18, 2015

I'm pretty new to this tractor thing, but I bought a decent sized piece of land and needed one to help take care of it. A year ago I picked up a LK3054 and this spring my PTO stopped working. I took it apart and found the PTO shift fork broken. Today I got the new fork, installed it and put everything back together but this is the first time I've ever done anything like this and I'm a little worried everything went back together a little too easy.

Before I put the 27L of transmission fluid back in or tear it open again to recheck my work is there a safe way to check that the PTO is working now? I am getting a nice mechanical snick-snick-snick when I move the lever but the PTO turns freely with the extra sound of gears turning when the lever is in the engaged positions. Is this right or should the PTO be hard/impossible to turn by hand when engaged?

Patches · Aug 19, 2015

I have the same tractor and with the tractor not running and shift the selector to either of the pto ranges, you should not be able to rotate the pto shaft, unless the clutch is completely depressed

CaliEscapee · Aug 19, 2015

Patches said:
I have the same tractor and with the tractor not running and shift the selector to either of the pto ranges, you should not be able to rotate the pto shaft, unless the clutch is completely depressed

Thanks. I tore it open again this evening and after a little searching found a ring that couples the shafts together fallen in where I couldn't see it. After I put that on and did a little adjustment to get the shafts to mesh up the PTO locked up when in gear.

After I got everything back together I filled up with fluid I gave it a test run. It grinds trying to engage the PTO but works once engaged. Now I think I may have to play with the clutch engagement and hope I don't have to do a clutch replacement.

Patches · Aug 21, 2015

It sounds like an adjustment; I had to adjust my clutch so there is about 3/4" of an inch free play at the pedal and I always wait several seconds with the clutch pedal fully depressed before attempting to engage the pto to prevent the grinding

chrlslovak · Sep 15, 2021

CaliEscapee said:
Thanks. I tore it open again this evening and after a little searching found a ring that couples the shafts together fallen in where I couldn't see it. After I put that on and did a little adjustment to get the shafts to mesh up the PTO locked up when in gear.

After I got everything back together I filled up with fluid I gave it a test run. It grinds trying to engage the PTO but works once engaged. Now I think I may have to play with the clutch engagement and hope I don't have to do a clutch replacement.

Patches said:
It sounds like an adjustment; I had to adjust my clutch so there is about 3/4" of an inch free play at the pedal and I always wait several seconds with the clutch pedal fully depressed before attempting to engage the pto to prevent the grinding

Can you tell me where you found instructions for tear down and rebuild. Having the same problem. TIA