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Originally Posted by three4rd
LOL...was expecting you'd show up.
Wait...if the linkage "fell off the hydro"...where would it be? I mean, everything is in place..or are you referring to a disconnection internally somewhere? The shift lever (on the dash) is working the rest of the mechanism as it should. That being said, however, could it be that inside the hydro something changed so that indeed it's always 'in gear' at this point? There was less of the grinding (or whatever) noise if I didn't depress the brake pedal
quite as much, and then more of it when pressing all the way.
Just now I turned the motor by hand again and don't hear anything unusual on either end. Weird. Guess I'll try it again tomorrow morning and see what happens. I don't want to keep doing this though for fear of somehow damaging the engine. Got that right about learning more than I ever would have expected. I think I learned more in the past 2 years than in the entire 40+ years I've had the tractor.
Assuming this unusual amount of turning the motor manually doesn't do any harm? I always turn in the correct direction of rotation.
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FWIW, As far as rotation, they are built for many applications and some are reverse rotation,
so no harm turning the other way.
The trunion linkage inside the hydro, is retained by a coiled pin in the swash plate.
I've seen them worn a tiny bit in the swash plate hole but never heard of one coming totally out of the hydro because of a broken coiled pin.
Those hydro's are avail used and usually about $100 if you actually have a bad one.
