bent PTO shaft

Anonymous-0 · Jun 15, 2011

Hey folks,
Last year (or maybe this year) while baling, I went over some uneven ground, the pickup forks bound, I panicked a little and raised the hydraulics (baler hooked to the 3PH drawbar). Put a little bit of a bend in the shaft so it shakes pretty good (makes the PTO seal on the tractor leak a little). Does it make any sense to try and straighten it or will I end up doing more damage? Will running it as is end up doing more damage to baler or tractor?

Thanks,

Dave

Anonymous-0 · Jun 15, 2011

If you can feel it, it makes sense to try and straighten it. Give it a good eyeball, to see just what is bent, then think about how to straighten it. Remember to mark the 2 halves, before dis-assembly, so you put it back the same way.

mkirsch · Jun 15, 2011

You've already damaged the tractor (leaky PTO seal). It's only going to get worse if you insist on running it as-is.

old · Jun 15, 2011

Yep either try to make it straight again or replace it. You already know it is causing a problem with the tractor and that problem will keep getting worse if you keep running it like you are. That said it will take a good hyd press or some such type of thing to do the job. Yep BTDT and my pipe bender works great for making bent things straight again

Anonymous-0 · Jun 15, 2011

Neighbor kid has a press and can take care of it if anyone can. I was gonna have him shorten it about 6 inches anyway because I ordered an overrunning clutch that doesn"t go deep enough to lock onto the tractor PTO without an adapter. Worse case, a shaft that size without a clutch isn't real expensive.

Dave

TGIN · Jun 15, 2011

Find a old shaft and cut your ends off and weld to it . You may just need one half or the other . The male end would be no problem to straighten if a solid shaft but the female end may want to distort .

sotxbill · Jun 16, 2011

going to ruin the bearing and seals on both..

JML755 · Jun 16, 2011

I tried to straighten one last summer. It didn't wobble so much to hurt anything, just wouldn't slide easy in and out. Used a homemade press setup. Thought I had it pretty straight. Still bound up some. Figured there was probably a little twist in it as well. Ended up cutting the 2 halves shorter as it only bound up when they got deeper into each other. At least now, it slides easy enough to couple/uncouple from the tractor without having to use a "persuader". Someone told me that once they're bent, get a new one.

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