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Yes - take the cover off of the left hand clutch access (from seat), and at the top there is a little cover at the top that almost looks like a dust cover for a trailer axle that is held on by a curved piece of metal that is sprung onto it. Loosen the bolt enough for the piece of metal to spin out of the way, and you should be able to remove the cap. Under it, there is a castle nut and cotter pin. Once I removed the cotter pin, I put the box end of my wrench on the nut, and then hooked a pto shaft to the pto and put an adjustable on it, and loosened the nut from the back rather than trying to do it through that access panel (I put it back on the same way). Once it loosened, mine came off by hand. I think there is a thin washer or spacer between the nut and the bearing - don't spin too much fomr the rear and loose it in the clutch housing! From there, I started lightly prying and tapping until it came apart with a big thud (PTO housing fell down, shaft came up, slider gear fell down into housing w/thrust washer, etc. - you'll find out if you do it on your own:). When I put it back together I did it myself, but it would have been a lot easier with a helper to help guide things back into place up front. I used a long bolt near the top on both sides so that the housing was held up & square, and then went back together a little bit at a time until I could get everything lined back up and in place up front with the gears and gearing. I thought it was going to be much more difficult than it actually was, but it was pretty self explanitory once I got it all apart. I removed it from one tractor and put it into another in about 2.5 hours w/out help (top covers were already off of them both). It is much more open to get that rearend cleaned out with that out of the road - to me it was well worth the bother to know that I got everything out when I cleaned it. I found 2 pretty good sized chunks from the stearing worm gear in the bottom that I'm not sure I'd have been able to flush out otherwise, and am glad they are no longer in there floating around!
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