Tractor & Machinery

Mower overhaul

PART 2

Great progress was made in the first part, where I pulled the mower from the bushes and gave it an overall assessment and began the strip down.

One of the first items I targeted for this issue was the PTO shaft. It is keyed to the shaft and secured to it by means of a roll pin, which came out easily due to the presence of grease, and the rear universal joint is in extremely good order and requires no attention.

The forward section of the shaft, however, was a different matter. It was fused to

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