Secret to hooking up PTO shaft

[MoArk Willy]

I have several type of couplers and seems sometimes it is quick and effortless, and other times nearly impossible. I read through the posts and saw some good ideas.

My trick, that I just began using this year on the tough ones, is to:

1. Make sure the pto shaft is lined up as straight to the tractor as possible,

2. Straddle the pto shaft

3. While using both hands to pull on the collar, push the shaft in by squeezing it forward with my knees.

Haven't had this fail yet, and seems to slide in much more easily, maybe due to the pressure coming from both sides evenly.

Hmm....are you Ron Jeremy by chance?

 

[Shady oak]

Thanks to whoever turned me on to puttimg the pto rear/mid selector into neutral. Works slick. As for lube, I use Never Seize on the splines and slide. Seems to really stay on anything. Including my clothes and hands.

 

[DieselBound]

Use Fluid Film or Slick Stuff. Much less messy.

 

[JRobyn]

Use Fluid Film or Slick Stuff. Much less messy.

Fluid Film is actually very good for your skin AND smells nice! It's the lanolin.

 

[DieselBound]

Fluid Film is actually very good for your skin AND smells nice! It's the lanolin.

I also use it in my hair Oh, WAIT! What hair?

Slick Stuff also smells great. But just about anything smells good after one has been whiffing PB Blaster!

 

[Wagtail]

Fluid Film is actually very good for your skin AND smells nice! It's the lanolin.

An Aussie/Kiwi lanolin product "LANOX" is my 'go to' spray-on product. :thumbsup:

Not only does the PTO get a spritz before and after use but at least twice a year I'll go around the tractor and spray anything that mechanically moves (that doesn't already have it's own grease nipple).

 

[Shady oak]

When I hook up the tiller, or the wood chipper, or the stump grinder and am having any problems, I just think of my shovel and my ax hanging in the garage.

 

[DieselBound]

When I hook up the tiller, or the wood chipper, or the stump grinder and am having any problems, I just think of my shovel and my ax hanging in the garage.

Yeah, or as a friend of mine says, sarcastically, of such problems: "Third world problems!"

Either a slave with a shovel/axe, or a slave to machines... (after a clutch job and suspension refresh on one of my cars I was kind of thinking that I missed manually installing fence posts!)

 

[Jd5203]

With a rotary cutter, lift the cutter so the jumper is off the ground. This way you can rotate the shaft, while rotating it slowly put it on the tractor, it will line itself up and when it grabs, just wiggle it around and it will go right on. Do this with all of my implements and it is by far quicker than trying to line up the splines visually.

 

[JBacon52]

If your tractor has mid and rear PTO, shift to mid when hooking to the rear, and vice versa.

It will allow you to turn the PTO shaft by hand to help with lining up the splines.

Thanks for that hint. I've never heard that before.. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: