If there is a crack, it may be too small to see until you put some stress on the mechanism (like when you pre-load the bands.)
Poor design? I can't really disagree with that. If we define a "good design" as one that does the job, lasts a long time, and is reasonably affordable to buy, operate, and maintain, then this setup appears to fail at the last point. With dealers demanding north of $600 each for the bands (which IMHO would be seriously overpriced at $150), I don't think that's reasonably affordable maintenance. Fifty bucks is plenty for a bushing, too, but you'd probably have $150 worth of time (yours and the machinist's) into it if you had one made from scratch. It seems that there would already have been other, better, proven ways to start and stop a PTO when these tractors were designed.
I still love the tractors, though, warts and all. They kick some serious booty out in the field!
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