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No need to remove the front end at all. Put something under the oil pan like a small bottle jack or small floor jack and then hook a chain hoist to the center of the steering wheel, Support the clutch housing with a floor jack that can be rolled back with the rear of the tractor. Remove the bolts from the steering box where it is bolted to the clutch housing. Remove the bolts from around the Engine to clutch housing. take up on the chain hoist at the steering wheel to support the hood and steering column and if everything is loose roll the rear back till the pilot shaft is clear of the clutch disc and let the clutch housing down enough to get by the steering box and then roll it all the way back till you have room to remove the pressure plate. However! If the clutch has not been stuck for long you can probably get it unstuck by jacking up one wheel and with the tractor out in the open or with the bumper against a big tree with no slack between the two. Start the tractor and with it in high gear (4th) with the clutch pedal tied down and the engine RPM all the way open, drop the jack so that the wheel hits the ground suddenly and if it doesn't come loose the first time try it a couple more. Most of the time it will come loose if in fact it is stuck and not damaged in some way. Be sure to video the whole thing. :O) I have also got them loose if you have very good brakes by getting out on the road with the pedal tied down and in high gear and wide open and jump on the right brake as hard as you can till it comes loose. Be ready to hold on to the steering wheel though if it does come loose because it will veer off pretty quick. BE CAREFUL. When I was a kid and the first automatic transmission cars were coming out a family friends car which had the new automatic transmission in it quit on him on the way home from town one day. A lady neighbor of his happened by in her older Ford car and asked if she could be of assistance to him. He said that he needed a push start but that his new car had the new automatic transmission in it and it had to be pushed in excess of 35 MPH in order to get the engine to turn over. She turned around and went up the road a ways and then accelerated to 40 MPH and came barreling down the road and hit the back of his new car totaling them both! She thought he meant to be doing over 35 before the two made contact. Read my instructions carefully!
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