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I'll admit to paying a neighbor kid 20 bucks to clean my walks and driveway. No way would my back and shoulder tolerate it anymore. I did clean the cars off and that was enough. Shoulder is letting me know bout that too...
Unfortunately, there are no neighbor kids, and it's still an unplowed half mile farm road to the unplowed public road. Didn't really have a lot of choice here.
I've got a 1979 JD 850, also a rebodied Yanmar. I get parts from Hoye Tractor. Got a new injector pump for half the cost of the dealership part (same p/n). I doubt your tractor has a two stage clutch. On the 850, the two-stage clutch wasn't introduced until 1981. Mine is single stage.
One of the worst things everybody says about changing the clutch is when you put it back together. It's really hard to get the back end to roll straight in. The manual I have says to pull the front end off leaving the motor connected to the trans. Then pull the motor with a cherry picker. Not sure which way would work best. Any thoughts?
Railguy
I have split about 100 tractors in my lifetime. I am trying to recall the one and only John Deere compact that I did a clutch on.
You should go with the manual if you are going to split it in the center. Clutch installed use a floor jack on wheelsfor the back half and the front supported by two bottle jacks frame rails or if you have a cast oil pan or engine hoist make sure both the front half and back half are parallel when you are close make sure the stater is removed so use a screw driver and 18" set of channel locks. Screw driver to turn the flywheel and channel locks to pinch the two halves together. Apply pressure to the channel locks and rotate the flywheel to spline the input shaft to the clutch hub.
A little trick when you are close put the trans in gear to stop the input shaft from turning. And also when it splined up bolt the bellhousing together and remove support from both halves, dump trans in gear and get help to rock tractor and step on the clutch to make sure it realeases and the same for the PTO.
FYI if you have the flywheel turned and it's a step flywheel, make sure the machine shop takes off the same of amount off the the top step as they did for the friction surface.
It gives you a good feeling when you finally get dug out. That was a fair bit of work to say the least.
Those Nor'easters usually track further up the coast with more developing strength as they hit us here in Nova Scotia, as we are stuck out in the ocean. It only gave us a few flurries and a bit of wind as it went by and remained to our south. Apparently a large high pressure area blocked the storm from coming any further north. Lucky us. 5 C (41 F.) here today.
It's sunny and about 40F here again today. Good news is the snow has gone down about a foot since Sunday. Some melting, some compacting, as it was very fluffy originally. Only two feet deep in most places now.
I m thinking of reusing the old clutch disc it's not that bad and may be better than the new one. Also I don't know what kind of grease to use on the pilot bearing . And the "holder" for it rides on an output shaft.
I m going to start new thread . "Pilot bearing grease"
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