My Stupidity kicked in at full throttle.

[airbiscuit]

I've removed powder coat by using carb cleaner or laquer thinner. The trick is to soak it into a rag, wrap it around the part, then seal it in a plastic bag. The bag prevents the solvent from evaporating. Let soak for an hour and the coating comes off like a grape peel.

 

[airbiscuit]

This was another comment on that thread...

I have found that leaving a powder coated object in the environment that it is supposed to survive in, is the best way to get that crap to bubble.

 

[Williy]

Have you tried a pry bar and gently tapping with a rubber
hammer just work your way around it

willy

 

[dodge man]

Once again a perfectly good thread ruined by the OP coming back on and telling us he fixed it. Now all we can do is scold the people that don’t read the entire thread and tell the OP how to fix it.

 

[5030]

My FINAL suggestion is, get yourself a suitable length of appropriate diameter heater hose or plastic pipe that fits snugly and covers the stub and when not in use, keep it covered. Most dealers (Kubota included sell a cover cheap), if you want to buy one. Mine always stay covered when not in use and I put a nit of grease inside the cover so when I slip it on, the grease keeps the splines lubricated.

B4 I install any coupler, I spray the coupler with PBlaster inside as well.

 

[Little Red Tractor]

Could you take the u-joint apart and then possibly use a puller.

That would likely be the safest option of all. Even if you wreck the U-joint, it's the least costly thing to replace.

 

[kenhar]

Grease or oil on a PTO shaft works great one time, but the next time with the dirt and grime build up, you will cuss your grease gun. A wire brush on the shaft and inside the yoke does wonders. If it don't go on easy, you may have a burr on the splines or possibly a defective yoke. A touch with a file on both the male and female splines on the 540 PTO sometimes works wonders.

 

[WinterDeere]

I grease my PTO stubs. Never been an issue. I keep the OEM condom on the thing when not in use, although sometimes I'll forget to re-install when dropping an implement, and it does have dirt/dust stick to the grease.

But I have these things called paper towels, and this other thing called a hand. It takes all of about 2 seconds to wrap my hand around the stub with a paper towel, and swipe that dirty outer layer of grease off. Every boy learns that move around age 13, or so I thought.

People who talk about grease on a PTO stub being a problem are inventing a problem out of nothing. Every manual for every tractor I've ever owned says to grease the thing.

 

[olenjohn]

Drill a hole thru the pto shaft and spud. Put a bolt with a nylok nut on it. Run it like you stole it.

 

[Smokie Joe]

I bought a new 2024 Mahindra 1126 tractor. I have put around 70 hours on it. Until this past Saturday it had never had it's PTO stub uncovered. When I took the cover off the stub looked very smooth and black. I intended to connect a new 48" rotary cutter to the tractor. Every thing looked good and clean in the PTO shaft yoke.

Well the shaft went on to the stub about 1/2". From there I used a block of wood and drove it on, as far as it would go. About 1/4" from the lock pin groove.

My thought when driving it on was that it would free up while I was using it. But I ain't gonna use it for fear that the shaft will free up and sling off.

Now to my question. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I am gonna git the shaft off. I am disconnected from the rotary cutter with the cutter end of the drive line separated from the tractor end of the drive line.

My thought is to tie the shaft to a tree and drive off with the tractor.

I am open to any other ideas.

When I git this apart I will be cleaning the powder coat paint off of the stub.

Mule

Put prybar between pto slip joint and tractor apply moderate pressure tap i said tap pto joint it will slip off eventually. Been there many many times