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Originally Posted by fresno99
Update on my pto problem. Thanks to Sam Mac I contracted Warner Electric and the whole pto clutch was discontinued several years ago and they scraped all the leftover parts. However they are going to be able to mill out the old coil housing and put me a new coil in. Warner also sent me the drawing with the bearing numbers and Jay at Waterman Farm Machinery said he can get me the bearing. So I shipped my old coil yesterday to Warner so hopefully I will get it back in a couple of weeks ready to be put all back together. Hopefully it will last but I might just be rebuilding the problem pto clutch again. Thanks again for all the help. I will update again later.
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Originally Posted by J-Mech
In my opinion, if you don't identify what is making the whole set up fail, then once you fix it, I'd still suggest trading it off. It is a known issue and apparently there aren't many tractors out there that weren't affected. If you can identify the cause of the failure and fix it, then it would be worth doing. Right now, all I think you are doing is throwing good money after bad if you intend to keep the machine. FWIW, from what I saw it looks like either a lack of lubrication to the thrust bearing, poor size/poor matierial thrust bearing, or too much pre-load applied. Could even be that there wasn't enough pre load applied and the bearing was always slamming into itself and destroyed parts. I don't have the parts to look at it....... but I am just going to state again that unless you know the reason of the failure.... trade it off once you fix it.
Your tractor, your money, and your time...
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Glad to have been able to help. I have to agree with J-Mech on this one. Assuming that you are successful in getting to function I would trade it in on something that is more reliable. Looking at it from the pics you posted it looks like a poor design.