super99
Well-known Member
Whew!! Long afternoon, I'm beat!! I'll refresh you with what I'm doing. I have an 88 with a 77 motor in it. Several years ago I bought a supposed to be good motor from a kid out in Iowa but never had time to try to put it in. A couple of months ago, a friend of a friend had a good 88 motor out of a pulling tractor that he wanted $250 for, so I bought it, now I have 2 88 motors, one good and one supposed to be good. I pulled the 77 motor out and put the first motor I bought into it before I figured out that the clutch shaft would not go in far enough to catch the splines on the clutch plate. So this afternoon I pulled the motor back out and took the bell housing off and discovered that the 77 motor had a bearing for the clutch shaft and the 88 motor had a bronze bushing that was too small for the clutch shaft to fit into. So I took the flywheel off of the 77 motor and put it on the 88 motor, put the bell housing back on and got it set into the frame. There are 2 sets of holes in the 88 frame mounting slots for the motor to fit into, I don't know which ones the 77 motor was in, I didn't realize there were 2 sets until I got the 77 motor out. I tried lining up the 88 motor to the rear set and couldn't get the holes to line up, so I slid it to the front set of holes and then all of the bolts lined up. Does it make a difference which holes the motor bolts up to?? I tried to put the long shaft back in and the splines for the clutch don't want to go thru the hydraulic pump. I tried shoving on it and it stuck and I had an awful time getting it pulled back out. Will it only go back in one certain way?? I tried the different long shaft that I bought and it's the same thing. Any tricks to getting the long shaft back in?? I didn't think to take a picture of the 2 holes with the motor out, but I have a picture from the bottom side on my phone that I will post .
