skylarkguy
Platinum Member
So yesterday I'm cooking along. Newly sharpened blades on the brush hog making quick work of a neglected section of my yard. I got a little sideways in a ditch with the 2 right wheels in the ditch and the left wheels out. The steering was hard to the left. I tried to back out of the ditch to take a new cut and bam...instantly had no steering. The sector shaft of the steering box snapped right at the base of the pitman arm.
I managed to get it pulled out and turned around with a come along, chain etc. Then pointed it to the garage and walked back in low idle. Outside of the spookiness of walking next to your tractor and pushing on the front wheels to steer it, it went just fine.
Does anyone have any experience repairing a sector shaft? Anyone have a steering box they would be willing to part with or the internals to put mine back together? How about model interchangeability. Will an MT160 steering box fit my MT372 (found one relatively locally).

Hoping to mow the entire place. (12 acres) before the rains really start....blurgh!
I managed to get it pulled out and turned around with a come along, chain etc. Then pointed it to the garage and walked back in low idle. Outside of the spookiness of walking next to your tractor and pushing on the front wheels to steer it, it went just fine.
Does anyone have any experience repairing a sector shaft? Anyone have a steering box they would be willing to part with or the internals to put mine back together? How about model interchangeability. Will an MT160 steering box fit my MT372 (found one relatively locally).



Hoping to mow the entire place. (12 acres) before the rains really start....blurgh!