reply to hoader292

(reply to post at 22:59:39 05/04/18) Heres a post I copied and put in my email drafts. Silver Tractor in Henegar Alabama used to make the eliminators. This man made his own. Give me gears always is my motto. My 2640 came from a "very honest" fellow. Luckily I paid scrap price for it. One of the pinion gears in the high low unit was wiped out, broke the pin, went out through the drum and the pin had gone through the drum of the unit and was in the bottom of the trans. There was a double handfull of teeth and parts in the bottom when I split it. I ended up beating the drum of the high low unit back into shape and welding the hole up. Put all the "guts" on the shelf and purchased a used input shaft for a non hi-lo tractor. The shaft was the right length but posed an issue with sealing the trans oil in the trans. I put the shaft in the lath and polished it in the area that lines up with the front of the hi=lo drum and plundered Chicago Rawhide for a seal by dimensions and put a seal in the hi-lo drum. This allowed the PTO to continue to run off the drum as originally designed, kept the same charge pump, and totally eliminated all the guts of the hi-lo unit. 8 gears are enough. Occasionally wish hi-lo was there mowing but considering it costs $5K and was basically junk when new i like it setting on the shelf better. The tractor probably has 250 hours on it since the conversion and no issues associated with the trans.

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