[sorner]

Maybe the rear end had something to do with it being junked, but the main reason it was junked is because something fell on the hood and shattered all of it, and broke the engine plastic and valve cover on one side. I think I'll have a good tractor when all is set and done. Just a lot of work going into it, not a lot of money because I already have the parts. I don't mind the work, I like to tinker.

As far as what I'm going to do, I wasn't planning on swapping the pinion, I was planning to just swap the reduction gear over, I was figuring that would be the same thickness and not throw everything off as far as shims. I definitely will go through the manual procedures and set it up right, I want it to last a while for me. The pinion in the good case looks good.