Yardman999
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They've given up the ghost, so to say. I have new ones on the shelf, but don't have the old front one nor the jackshaft out yet. This front PTO also powers the mower deck.
I do have the rear bearing off (via the driveshaft's quick-release spring-fitting and the rear bearing's four-9/16 in.-bolt steel mounting plate.
The front bearing is the problem -- the splined jackshaft won't push forward out through it. I do have the two little front-bearing-retaining 1/2 in. bolts removed on via the two holes in the front, ~8 in. pot-metal pulley. I also have the snap ring off the shaft's front splines, but the pulley doesn't want to easily pull off via a two-toed puller hooked into the pulley's holes (and the pulley looks non-robust with its hub weakly factory-attached to the web of the pulley).
Does the pulley have to come off (e.g., is there a bearing or shaft retainer behind it), or should it and the shaft pull out the front?
Other hints on getting the jackshaft out without damaging anything but the old front bearing?
FYI -- This 999 was made for MTD by Kwik-Way/KW Manufacturing in ~1995.
I do have the rear bearing off (via the driveshaft's quick-release spring-fitting and the rear bearing's four-9/16 in.-bolt steel mounting plate.
The front bearing is the problem -- the splined jackshaft won't push forward out through it. I do have the two little front-bearing-retaining 1/2 in. bolts removed on via the two holes in the front, ~8 in. pot-metal pulley. I also have the snap ring off the shaft's front splines, but the pulley doesn't want to easily pull off via a two-toed puller hooked into the pulley's holes (and the pulley looks non-robust with its hub weakly factory-attached to the web of the pulley).
Does the pulley have to come off (e.g., is there a bearing or shaft retainer behind it), or should it and the shaft pull out the front?
Other hints on getting the jackshaft out without damaging anything but the old front bearing?
FYI -- This 999 was made for MTD by Kwik-Way/KW Manufacturing in ~1995.