how to unstick

[Jack-Iowa]

got a couple Telescoping PTO Shaft that are frozen anyone know the best way to get tehm free?
thanks

 

[tjiniowa]

I have had to hook them between two tractors before, once I get them apart then grease them good, or even wire wheel them first

 

[souNdguy]

take a 5g bucket of must oil and add some diesel or kerosene or mineral spirits to it.

set the shaft in there a week.

flip it over and let the other side set next week.

use comealongs then and put them in tension.

if plastic shields are off.. use 2 hammers to tap along the coupled shaft and keep tightening tension and coming back.

they usually start giving after a while.

once apart.. wire wheel and swab the innards and then grease..

 

[batractorman]

Did soak one in penetratin' oil then tied one end to a tree, the other to the tractor. Worked, but I don't advise it.

 

[souNdguy]

comealong and 2 trees safer!

 

[JMOR]

(quoted from post at 18:40:48 10/13/12) got a couple Telescoping PTO Shaft that are frozen anyone know the best way to get tehm free?
thanks

have heated with a torch.

 

[Ken Macfarlane]

I brought 4 stuck one into the shop on Friday, one came apart with chain and sledge, one wasn't collapsed all the way so pounded it shorter to break the rust then chain and sledge apart.

The last 2 are not looking good, going to put the chain fall to them and chain the other end down. Give em a soaking in some ATF fluid mixture. Pound up and down the sides. We see how it goes.

 

[da.bees]

I bought one that was supposed to be almost new. It had a new cover and the exposed parts were painted. First time I attempted raising the mower,no go. I removed it and no amount of force would pull it apart. When I got the new cover off I found the shaft(1"x 1&1/8th)twisted and female portion worn so severly that the male wedged in the female at about 1/8th turn mismatch. 1" open end wrench on male, pipe wrench on female tube and cheaters on both got them unwedged. Presently laid aside in shop until I pay the seller a visit with it in hand. The female is only in about 2"of the very end,which makes heating or hammering most of the tube waste of time. If yours is a hollow 3 cornered tube inside another 3 sided tube and rusted,soaking,pulling and hammering will eventualy get them apart. Impact air hammer while under hard pull with come-a-long sounds like a plan.