pto alignment

Egon · Apr 9, 2003

With PTO shaft apart but attached at the implement and tractor its not hard to determine the proper lenght by marking it in the fully raised and fully lowerd position.

Egon

HayDR · Apr 9, 2003

When cutting the PTO shaft there must be 6" min. of overlap in the tubes when they are extended or the HP capacity of the PTO will be reduced. Often Tiller MFG use a larger PTO size than would be normally needed because in some applications the MFG knows that the 6" rule will be violated so the use larger rated PTO's to compensate for this situation. Not all MFG do this so it good to contact your local dealer and get the proper advice for cutting the PTO for your situation.

Justaplain · Apr 9, 2003

Yep, I found that mid PTO. I had one on a cub for 8 years and never turned it on, so I never looked for it on the 35 /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif bcs

tdenny · Apr 9, 2003

Justaplain,

Glad to hear you have a mid-PTO - now you can probably select it and the rear PTO shaft will spin very easily. This works very well on a JD 955/855/755/655. I always do this with the engine OFF. No reason not to shut her down while working back there.

5030 · Apr 9, 2003

( Trev:
Hacksaw or recipricating saw or cut off saw or hot saw and it's all done.

Egon

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I'll go along with everything but the hot saw . Tractor PTO output shafts are all tempered to overcome shock and shear loads imposed by the implement attached to it. Using a "hot saw" or "gas axe" will change the metallurgical structure of the shaft and might cause premature failure. We heat treat in our shop and some types of "normalizing" can be done at temperatures as low as 350 degrees farenheit. changing the "temper" of a metal part takes a higher temperature, but lower than what an oxy-acetelyne cutting torch produces. Remember, when you use a cutting torch you are actually melting the steel and blowing it away with the oxygen.

Daryl
Forage Services, L.P.

chrisjbell · Apr 10, 2003

( I have to agree with Chris. Once in a while you will have to struggle. For instance: You will get where you can easily put an implement on or off in minutes. Then one day, without warning, you will have to struggle for about thirty minutes, accompanied by sweat, swearing, skinned knuckles, greasy shirt, ant bites, high blood pressure, a lost pin, and maybe a broken two x four. )

Yup, that happens a lot. But it is always nice when you hit one of those times that you position the tractor just right and the implement seems to just attach itself /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif...