Tiller Tiller Hex Shaft Frozen in Gearbox - Can't Side Shift

[mld213]

Thank you to all for the suggestions, I will give them a try and see what develops.

Earlier in the afternoon I decided to just leave it in the current position and finish the tilling at hand and then fiddle with moving it at a later time. My original desire to move it stemmed from my being about half way through 4 acres of tilling and eventually got tired of dodging tree limbs as the trees have grown.

However, after tightening everything up, when I did a test run, I could hear something tapping from inside the compartment enclosing the chain drive. I guess I may have knocked something out of alignment when trying to free the gearbox. I didn't pound on it *that* hard, and the outside of the bearing at the chain drive shows no lateral movement or deformation, but...clearly I did something.

I considered just using it a bit and seeing how it goes, but I figure better judgment is to take the cover off the chain compartment and see what's going on.

Thanks again to all. Will report back.

 

[mld213]

Fortunately the tapping sound turned out to be a loose chain tensioner, so it was an easy fix. (Once I figured out the threaded shaft on the tensioner bar has left-hand threads.). Got it all back together and finished the tilling with the tiller in the center position (just had to duck under some low hanging branches).

Will fiddle around with trying to offset it again once I knock out a couple of other high-priority tasks. Will report on findings. Thanks again to all.