Well...It's been a WHILE since I posted here, and I've got a quick question as I dive back into the wreck... I'm ready to put the clutch assembly back onto the tractor, and I just got done driving the (new) inner race of the clutch bearing onto the crankshaft. Now I look in the book to see where this "bearing washer" goes, and I'm pretty sure that I can just "lay" it down in the clutch (so it will be on the engine side of the clutch bearing) and then press the clutch bearing down over it, all before I even put the clutch on the tractor. Seems I recall that this is how it came apart.
Sound correct? There's another problem, though... The bearing washer is "dished" and I don't know which way the "dish" goes! I've posted some pictures to my website hoping someone can help me figure this one out... It's really hard to describe! Those of you who are in the know; imagine the washer as a dish, such that the inside diameter of the washer is the bottom of the dish, and the outside diameter is the top. Now, facing the front of the tractor, and using your x-ray vision to "see" the washer as it appears when properly installed in the clutch, does the bottom of the "dish" face the clutch cover or the main case? I don't know if this makes any sense to anyone but me... Try the website for a better illustration: www.sculptoratlarge.com/tractor.html Thanks in advance for any help. And hello again to all of you who may remember me from my many postings two summers ago! I started tearing into this tractor in the summer of 2001. I got caught behind schedule when winter came along and the cold Wisconsin winter cut the project short that year. Last spring, I got engaged, last summer I got married, and somewhere in there, the tractor got very little attention. Now it's spring again, and I've been painting and wrenching again, mostly because my wife is on me to get the tractor put back together! :) Just kidding, but I'll tell you what, it sure is easier to put something back together that you took apart two days ago than it is to re-assemble something you took apart two years ago! Thank God I got the engine and transmission back together that first summer! chris
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