Thanks to Dell and Willy and another Question

Now the question, the broken pieces seemed pretty good size and when the piece broke, the pto shift lever also broke right away which means that the hydraulic pump must have shut off right away but there was some big pieces from that broken coupler and maybe some fine grit that may be in the hydraulic pump housing. Should the pump be taken out for cleaning or can a person just spray some air into the pump to get the stuff clelaned out. I would like to leave everything hooked together if at all possible. Would you guys remove the hydraulic pump for cleaning and if I do is there a chance of doing too much of a good thing if you are not mechanically inclined. Thanks again for all the help out there guys.

Frankly though, it'll be hard to flush all the stuff that's in the nooks and crannies with the pump still in there and it'll eventually circulate and get into your pump. So, if it was me, I'd pull the pump, clean, clean, clean in the housing, and insepct my pump/replace orings while I was at it.

It's really a gamble. There is a video available on this and other sites (I haven't watched it so I don't know how good it is). If you aren't in a hurry, you might wanna get one and see what's involved. It isn't hard and only took me a day to rebuild mine and the parts are readily available.

Dennis N Tx put a large magnet in the bottom of his housing to catch shavings. Next time I'm in there I might do the same. If you go the "drain and flush only" way, you might want to do that as well.

See how much of your broken parts are missing (do a jigsaw puzzle) and how much metal grinding/beating was done to generate fine metal chips. You may get by with just a high pressure flush. I have an old metal pressure pump garden weeder I use with mineral spirits or diesel.

I know I'd figger out somehow to put a big magnet in there. Maybe JB weld it to your big hydro drain plug..... .....Dell