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Foxen, Brian and Gerald, A belated thank you for ALL the images and tips and encouragement. They were the key that let me know that I could do it. Now that I've been inside, it was really easier than I thought it would be. I'm pretty mechanically fit but I sometimes cringe at disassembling something...

Hope this worked. I need to go thru the rest of them to see what is relevant. My wife took over 60 pics this AM.

Done, Done and Done!!!!! When I got all the oil out and could see the bottom I found a gear laying in the bottom of the case. I was pretty sure it didn't start there.....As I looked around I also found a nut and a locking washer. I think, that when I put it in gear last spring, that there was still ...

If the pump needs to come out, do I remove the PTO shaft and pull it from the bottom?
Or will it come thru the top? Since I'll have the cover off anyway.
I can probably figure it out once the oil is out (again) and I can see it better.

Brian, Yes, the PTO is in gear. Valve was free and so was the lift piston but I cleaned them anyway. I actually removed the body from the top and took it all apart to clean it. When I lifted the valve body some of the oil in it ran out. It looked like the OLD oil (watery). That makes me believe that...

Well, I took the top off and cleaned everything up. It was already pretty clean but I did it again. No help. I.m pretty sure my pump has taken a vacation. On the case there is also the top mounted valve with feed and return hoses for attachments. When I activate the valve in either direction there i...

I feel so good knowing what might be wrong I could probably pick it off with one hand tied.........Yeah, who am I kidding?? But at around a hundred lbs my beam in the barn is safe!! And my 2 ton come a long shouldn't even struggle.
I can't wait till tomorrow AM. Can you tell I'm excited???

THANK YOU Brian, At last some insight. That can be tomorrows project. Any idea of the weight of that top? I want to be sure not to collapse anything (like my barn roof or something else kind of important). And are the "O" rings all pretty standard sizes? That is, something I can find at NAPA or simi...

One of the first steps. And it was really clean already. The mystery to me is , if it worked when I parked what changed? The only answer I can muster is WATER or (more probably ICE). And to be honest I'm not even sure where, exactly, the pump is. I removed the shifter fork from the bottom the other ...

OK, I've read all this with great interest. Here's my story. And I believe it to be a similar situation. I bought a 1961 Super Major in the summer of 2008. Ser # 1642672. After getting it home I discovered that the motor was pretty tired, but everything else worked. (Had severe blow by on #3 and #4 ...