Putting drive line back together on 128 cub

[Carpetbagger]

I'm a new member, having found this site from an OCC member answering me on another tractor site.

My problem is putting a driveline back together after replacing several parts that were rusted and seized. Now I need to reassemble the driveline and anticipate having trouble compressing the heavy spring on the shaft down far enough to get the roll pins inserted in the drive shaft. I was wondering if any of you that have done this before have any special techniques or tools to make this easier. The OCC member that replied to me called himself jimmychew, but that may have been his username on the other site. I couldn't find his name on a search here.

Thanks for any help.

Carpetbagger.

[Merk]

Here is a write up on how to build-rebuild a clutch for a manual trans IH Cub Cadet:
https://www.onlycubcadets.net/forum/...ad.php?t=54233
The write up shows the fixture I use to compress the big spring.

There are other ways to compress the spring. This is the way I do it.

[finsruskw]

A vise with some pads, (I use 2 pieces of 1/4" aluminum) between the jaws to protect the end of the shaft, a brass drift and a hammer is all you really need.
And maybe an extra hand to hold the end up while you tighten the vise.
Take 'em apart the same way

[Carpetbagger]

Hey Finsruskw... Thanks for your advice. We've got a lot in common besides being Hawkeyes. I'm a three million miler (30 years) gearjammer too. I drove for a mail contractor for most of my career I live in southern Iowa. (Derby, near Chariton) Where are you?

[finsruskw]

30 miles west of Dubuque
We'll have to get together sometime and haul some freight over a beer or 2!!
Used to haul some stuff out of Chariton. Bollards of all sizes and coffer dam sections to US Corps of Engineer dam sites

[Carpetbagger]

I imagine that dam stuff you hauled was out of Johnson Macine Works in Chariton. I've known a lot of hands that worked there.