fixerupper
Well-known Member
This is the second pivot pin, as I call it, that has come out in the past two weeks because the cotter pin gave up the ghost. I overhauled this pulley three years ago and I suspect I put the pins in pointing the wrong direction. I put them in with the head leading, or pointing toward the direction of rotation. The I&T manual has one picture, a parts manual reproduction, that shows the pin in what I think is the opposite orientation, with the head trailing instead of leading. I have never found a publication that states which way the pin should face. I'm sure there is a Deere manual somewhere that has this information but I don't have my hands on it. Which way does this pin point?
I've had this thing apart maybe four times in the past 40 years, one time to fix a broken ear that let go when one of these pins came out. I don't want that to happen again if I can help it.