New TO 20 owner

ajhbike

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Just picked it up and brought her home to CT. Quick question before the manual gets here the million I will have later...the had lift only works when the tractor is in neutral and the pro shaft is turning. Is this malfunctioning or is this a safety feature.
 
On a TO-20 the PTO has to be engaged for the 3point hitch hydraulics to work, yes. I actually like that
feature. Put it in the position you want and turn it off.
 
You can make depth adjustments on the move. As long as the PTO is in gear, and your foot is off the clutch, the hydraulics work, so you
can lift the three point arms on the move.
 
Send me an email, I can give you a link to view the operators manual and understand and operate the Ferguson draft system.

Tom
 
If you hook it up to a brush hog you will probably desire limiter chains and an ORC, or Over Run Clutch. The ORC simply connects on the end
of the PTO and prevents the brush hog from pushing you into the next county as you stop the machine.
Ask away. Most of us are also still learning.
Currently I am learning about invisible ground circuits in a '93 F350 and errant voltages.
 
I was checking out the PTO shaft covers that they sell and I see they are a threaded pipe essentially. However, my shaft doesn't seem to have threads to screw into.
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Thanks although I don't know what you mean by remove the threaded bore. Do you mean unscrew the PTO shaft or does the wide part of the shaft unscrew? I didn't look at it closely enough this morning.
 
Like Bob said, you'll need to remove your ORC to get to the threads for the shaft cover.
Also: is that a nut and bolt holding the ORC onto the shaft, or a grease fitting plugging up the hole for the roll pin?
I remove/reinstall my ORC quite a bit, depending on what I'm doing, and the quick-release ORC is a lot handier. (I've also seen photos of homemade covers made out of large PVC pipe, that let you leave the ORC on, and cover it.)
If you can confirm that the shaft cover in the photo below will work for you, you can have it for the shipping cost. I ended up with an extra cap when I replaced the PTO shaft assembly on my TO20.
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okay thanks. It is a grease fitting.

So my PTO shaft has an overrunning clutch...it is different than my other... There must be a pin or something holding it on.

I have to admit that I haven't had much time to look at the TO closely. Picked it up with a 12 ft trailer...blew out the trailer tire in White Plains, NY. Shuttled the tractor home on a UHAUL transporter, spare trailer tire had a different lug pattern, Troopers had it towed, blah, blah blah. Quite a day. Good news is the trailer didn't flip and the tractor started for the UHAUL and at home.

Thank you for the offer...let me check this out a little closer tonight tonight
 
I understand....the ORC fits over the tractor shaft and the visible shaft with the splines is a part of the ORC.

But there must be a pin holding the ORC on the original shaft, no?
 
You should have a grease zerk on one side and an
Allen screw directly opposite the zerk on the other
side of the orc. Remove both. Use a punch and
drive out the roll pin that holds the orc on. Be careful
the punch isn?t so large that it messes up the
threads, but not so small it goes inside the roll pin. If
it does it might be hard to remove. The roll pin is
5/16 x 1 1/4 long. I bought my last one at Napa for a
buck.
 

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