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Originally Posted by Yosemite Sam
It looks like the end of the crank was rubbing on the back of the spring, if that is the case the bearing is too far back on the crank (the bearing should be flush with the end of the crank).
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The bearing seemed pretty flush on the crank although it did have a little play in it. Definitely due for a replacing.
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Originally Posted by cadzag72
if it would spin free when the lever was engaged, that means the linkage was way overtightened already. when i set my pto's up, i have the linkage backed way out and in the engaged position.at this point it is tight and won't spin by hand. I then pull it back to disengaged and tighten the linkage a turn at a time until i can spin it by hand. i'm surprised your spring didn't snap after all that tension and friction!
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That would make sense to me, and I think how the PO did it, that way you are only putting the tension you need to disengage it but the manual says to have it just barely off the button so that's what I did which worked for a while until now, obviously. I'm guessing it's more of a safety issue. If you need to disengage the PTO, you want it to happen ASAP, not halfway up the handle travel. I'm thinking the few attempts at snowthrowing really exposed the weak links in my 105.
Again, thanks for input and for these forums in general. I wouldn't have been able to remove those pressure springs holding my grill in place to even look at this if someone didn't already describe how they work in another thread somewhere.