Clutch replacement, was not expecting this

[bhaack]

The marriage ceremony is complete! Excellent!!
When I do those by myself, I typically have a chain come-along in the system to help do some pushing for me. You're typically right, remarrying a tractor is usually a two man job. Even a little one like this.
I can't wait to split my 100 hp 4230 (wrong color I know), it needs a rear main seal that I really don't want to do.

 

[jaxs]

Thanks for feedback everyone.

I'm sliding it together and it has basically stopped. The two studs on the top of the engine side have just slid into the matching holes on the rear side, so I'm pretty well lined up. I measured the gap at the top and the gap at the bottom and I'm within a mm, so it seems as lined up as I could reasonbly be. But it just will not got further together.

I thought maybe the spines of the clutch assembly arent aligned with the spines of the shaft so I tried rotating it slightly, but didnt detect any give or resistance there.

Based on the gap I think I should be at the point where the shift is just starting to slide into the pilot bearings, so maybe thats not perfectly lined up.

I'm to the threaded studs on the top, but not to the two dowels. I'm right at 25mm gap, within a mm all the way around, so I'm squared up.

Glad to hear it's finally buttoned up. Just for possible educational purposes for the group,does everyone agree with below observation?
From looking at shaft splines and smooth surfaces in pictures and 25mm gap I would think everything was engaged except frontmost piolet bushing.

 

[Russell King]

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I didnt update yesterday because I had a friend over and we got it together! Anyone capable of getting this together by themselves has my utmost respect and also must have vastly more tolerance for frustration than I do. Even with a buddy it took 30-40 minutes of pushing together, jacking up the back, lifting the front, lowering the back, lowering the front, wiggling the middle, etc. We got it done though.

The whole tractor is mostly together at this point. I should have planned better, I have to refill my hydraulic fluid so I might as well replace all my fluids and filters, so I am going to order those today.

Thank you so much to all of you for the help and support. I tried to document this repair thoroughly in this thread as resource for anyone in the future.

If you are reading this in the future and have any questions dont hesitate to ask here or message me directly.

Could you update on how your tractor is operating after all the questions about machining the flywheel?