Question For John Cub Owner

[Bamacub]

I read a post where you said the tranny front bearing holder could be installed reversed & if so the shaft will move backward & forward enough for the PTO to be disengaged. I may have installed one backward, because the shaft did move enough to disgage the PTO, the coller fell off. I have put the torque tube back on, but the engine is not on yet. Do I need to go back & fix it or does it make any differance once everthing is back together ? Thanks for any help. One more quick guestion, my last post was about oil pump gears both in this engine are drive gears, both having the slot for the keyway. Big Dog was the only one who had a responce & he said if it was OK before the tear down it should be OK now. If anyone has experienced this please let me know.

[Bigdog]

Bamacub, If you think you have the retainer backwards, now is the time to correct it. If you do not, you will be dealing with it later.
On the oil pump, as I said, if it has been that way for a while and is working, it should continue to work. I would think that the keyway in the gear would cause excessive wear on the fixed shaft over a period of time.

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

Bamacub. While the cub is apart, take hold of the shaft and move it in and out. if it will move more than 1.4 inch, the retainer is probalby backward and will need to be reversed. it will alow the pto to slip out of gear, and will cause excessive wear on the splines from just barely catching on them.

Regarding oil pump, I answered you on the other forum you asked on. There is supposed to be 2 different gears, one keyed, and one smooth. Like BD said, I would expect the extra keyed one to cause unecessary wear on the shaft.