new holland hay cutter

thank you all very much, larry

I guess I just meant that it helped to know what order to keep things in. It also tells you that you have to replace some plastic bushings under the gears every time you open the cutterbar (gearbox). I think someone else might have been right that the indexing of the gears probably isn't that important since you can just turn the discs some on the shaft when you put them back on. We put ours back like they were anyway. Ours has worked great since we repaired it. The repair was not nearly as tough as I thought it would be. I did fell better having the service manual to guide us. You may be just as comfortable without it. We only paid about $2600 for our mower so I can understand you wouldn't want to spend $2,300 to repair it. Billy

I do know that that bar is a bugger to get apart. All those big allen head cap screws on the bottom have to be turned out, which is not fun. My buddy made up a tool for that, and it required several feet of pipe on that to break them loose... and he's no midget.
Also, the suggestion to get a manual is a good one. HTH.

Rod