Well, cub dealer was open today and just got home with no satisfaction whatsoever. I played the nice guy and it got me nowhere, they treated me like I don't have any mechanical ability

, at which time I told them I grew up on a 30 acre auto salvage yard and could probably run circles around his mechanics. Only reason I took tiller to them is cause I'm not equipped with a torch, yet. So they lost my business for good and will talk them down everytime I hear there name, brutal lesson learned!
Yosemite, the part in the pic isn't the extension, it's the primary that the extensions attach to. So finding a replacement for that will be next to impossible, without buying another whole tiller.