PTO rookie - questions about disassembly and greasing

   / PTO rookie - questions about disassembly and greasing #21  
Any #2 grease may lubricate at those temps, but if you use them on the sliding sections of a pto shaft. Once you stop extending /retracting that shaft at 0F it will be very difficult to extend a pto shaft to connect it.
 
   / PTO rookie - questions about disassembly and greasing #22  
If the sliding shaft is square, be sure you mark the position of each shaft before separating. There is a thing called PTO phasing, where the knuckles need to have the same orientation, otherwise there wile be an acceleration and deceleration with each revolution.
Even the square shaped shafts have a, what I call it, "timing slot".
You can put them together only in theses two positions, which rotates the joint by 180 degrees and in this case it doesn't matter.
 
   / PTO rookie - questions about disassembly and greasing #23  
One other point. My latest implement came with a PTO shaft that has a safety cable running through the middle to prevent the two half's from coming apart. If your shaft doesn't come apart because of this nanny cable, you need to punch out a drift pin from one of the outer shaft ends to release the cable and allow the shaft halves to separate.
 
 

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