Brush Hog repair Question

I still have that hole in the jumper. I mow thru woods and continually clear wooded land to convert to pasture. I hit more than my share of stumps, saplings, etc. That ~1 1/4 " hole in the jumper has not caused any problems. I was a bit worried about throwing the jumper out of balance, but that has not been a problem either.

George

If you take it to a farm shop to have them take the pan off, you can torque the bolts yourself after applying some Loctite to them. Then assemble the stumpjumper with anti-sieze compund on it so if you have to you can remove it in the future.
That's about all I can offer. Good Luck.

If it's a splined shaft, with a castellated (castle) nut on it, with some washers under it, and on the face of the shaft there may be a divot machined out for a puller, as mine is.

I looked at it and realized I could take a large bar, ( I used a manhole lid type bar maybe 5 foot long ) and pryed against the face of shaft, to see if I could lift the pan using the face of shaft as the fulcrum block, and it slid up no problem, I then lifted a little and shimmed a little until it freed up, the splines, not the shaft are tapered on this one. I had friend hold a wrench on the nuts deck side, while I tightenend them down from the inside, then used a little wicking grade loctite from above after I flipped it right side up, it seeped into the threads under the nut. You have to have a straight pick to pull this pan off it seems, if you tilt it while lifting, it seems to jam the works up a bit.

I took pictures of this apart, e-mail me your address, I'll send them to you, it might help if it's set up the same way.

Once I tightened those bolts and sharpened the blades, it seemed to be very well balanced, no more vibration when you first turn the pto on.