- Location
- Mendips Somerset
Bought a old rake , been in a shed for a while , cant get pto apart , tried soaking wd40 , tapping with hammer , any short cuts lol ? , doesnt help cover is full length so you cant get a good grip on pipe
Any tips on getting a stuck pto shaft apart
- Thread starter andybk
- Start date
Jam Tomorrow
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- Location
- Hardy Country
Oil it well , let it soak in . Attach a ratchet strap and pull them apart.
yeah, a bumper like i made ,like a slide hammer with a big d on the end that goes through the yolk/hard spicer joint ill see if i can find a pic. actually its on here somewhere...
thefarmingforum.co.uk
the old lump hammer head slides along on an old tyre lever iirc, D just welded on at an angle to allow its pin to through through the uj iyswim.
leave the shaft on the machine mind to do it so the other end is held firm whilst you bump away.
Removing pto shaft
Have a pto shaft which I cannot get of the splined shaft of topper. The shaft has a ring that you pull back which then allows shaft to slide off. However this time, the ring pulls back but the shaft will not come off. I suspect that the steel balls are not retracting. Any ideas?
thefarmingforum.co.uk
leave the shaft on the machine mind to do it so the other end is held firm whilst you bump away.
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- Location
- Mendips Somerset
good idea thanks
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Got a similar problem here. The PTO is stuck on the short PTO of the implement. I've tied a few days of penetrating oil and a big hmmer and a punch but it's not moving. I am thinking it must be thread locked on, so heat next. But I think you are saying it's the guards that are stuck? Quite a few videos on Youtube, but nothing that works for me, though yet to try attaching one end to an immoveable object and the tractor on the other end.
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
guards ok , just they are a length that you cant vice grip the shaft without fkn the guards up , there is only few ins either end to grip just the uj really , so you can get hammer on other end ,typical the covers are like new , will give the ratchet strap idea a go first i think ,
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
pto shaft seized on my fert spreader over winter 
.....chained fert spreader to building stanchion....attached pto to tractor + drove off ......take shaft out after use now
.....chained fert spreader to building stanchion....attached pto to tractor + drove off ......take shaft out after use nowPistonbroke
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While there's tension on it give a couple of whacks sideways halfway along with a rubber or wooden mallet. Shouldn't hurt the guard too much and might shock it loose
- Location
- North West Wales
Don’t try to pull it with tractor shaft, most are only held in with a circlip and the inards with bolt on shafts don’t appreciate being used under tension either. Feed a strap through the yoke and to drawbar or similar and other end to something solid or another vehicle
i don't know why but I have a vision of a building collapsing in a cloud of dust ...and spooked chickens scattering across the yard ....and a loud "bugger"pto shaft seized on my fert spreader over winter
Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
Done this a few times. Lifting strap though yoke one pallet tine of telehandler.
strap through other yoke onto chassis of handler. Then boom out!
If pto is fooked then nothing will shift it.
strap through other yoke onto chassis of handler. Then boom out!
If pto is fooked then nothing will shift it.
Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
I wouldn't recommend that. Likely to do more damage to other parts. Namely the locking pins. If they get distorted then you've got bigger problems
- Location
- North West Wales
God only knows how but I’m sure it was something to do with the push out hitch but few years ago I had a challenge to remove a tanker PTO shaft off a tractor. In end had to remove the stub, strip down the UJ and press the stub out of the yoke. The shaft splines had actually re shaped the loking pin wedging it solid!! It was actually creaking as it was shifting in the press!!
thats why you put a brick in front of the wheels if it doesn’t want too come it’ll roll over the bricks... locking pins aren’t the end of the world too change my Nan could change a set of locking pins I’d be more worried about what ever holds the shaft in than the locking pins but again a brick in front of the tyres isn’t gonna break a heavy circlip or bolts...
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
I have the PTO shaft stuck on the machine and the locking pin is out. Can't work out why tapping with a 7lb hmmer and a punch won't move it. There isn't much rust.
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Maybe it is left hand tap.
2 locking pins?
Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
Yokes often wear sideways. Making them into a kind of bayonet. Any slight step or burr internally will totally bugger the job
fiat 9090
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- Location
- co offaly eire
Years ago the shaft on our dung spreader got stuck tied it out of a girder at one end and put a chain on the other end out of the toplink of the new Holland left plenty of slack in the chain and got a good shock at it ,the pin broke at the tractor and broke the back housing of the tractor I thing it cost 900 for a new housing ,an expensive lesson/ ,
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- boom new holland rust telehandler