Problem with engaging the PTO to the engine side. MF135

I have a MF135 That I took the side housing off to clean the hydraulic filter. When I put the side housing back, I must have not gotten the lever in the notch on the gear. Did not use the tractor PTO since I cleaned the filter. That was till yesterday. Tried putting the lever to the engine side the PTO did not work. Moved it to the ground speed side the PTO worked with the tractor moving. Moved the lever back to neutral and the PTO kept turning. So I drained the oil, removed the side housing and seen the gear was engaged in the ground speed gear. So I did not get the lever in the notch when I put it back together when I cleaned the filter.

Let me tell you before cleaning the filter, when engaging the PTO to the engine side it never grind going in to gear. Now I put it back together it grinds when to try to engage the engine side of the PTO. I read about the PTO clutch plate need adjusting can cause the grinding. But as I stated before it never grinded before. Tried making sure the spline shaft on the engine side lined up with the spline of the PTO side with the gear engaged in the ground gear. So the spline shafts lined up and the gear slide and engaged with no binding. Installed the side housing back moved the lever thru from ground speed to neutral to engine with the engine off. No binding. Start the tractor and try to engage the engine side of the PTO. I get grinding and sometimes able to get the lever engaged to the engine. All with the clutch depressed. Remove the side housing again and the splines are off just like 1/8 of a tooth. Tried doing this about 4 times and still having the same problem. I am out of ideas.

Thank you,

Adam

You can take the round cover off the right hand side, have someone work the pto lever while you look at (with the engine off, and the parking brake set of course).

You can test the second stage for proper clutch release this way, with engine running and lift arms fully lowered, push the clutch pedal completely down. With it down move the three point back to raise the lift arms. If clutch is working correctly they should NOT raise with the pedal down, and raise with the pedal up about one inch, and stop again with pedal down again. PTO will not work right IF the clutch does not release right, since the engine PTO simply slides the gear forward to connect the PTO shaft to the hydraulic pump shaft rear.

I have this same problem with a 150. PTO
worked fine until I had to use it on a
square baler. After that PTO clucth does
not work properly, and lift arms will raise
with clutch down. Someone on here recommend
checking clutch play through inspection
plate, should be 80 thousands I believe. I
set it at that, but still haven't got it
working properly. Any suggestions?

(quoted from post at 09:42:54 06/01/17) I have this same problem with a 150. PTO
worked fine until I had to use it on a
square baler. After that PTO clucth does
not work properly, and lift arms will raise
with clutch down. Someone on here recommend
checking clutch play through inspection
plate, should be 80 thousands I believe. I
set it at that, but still haven't got it
working properly. Any suggestions?

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If the clutch pedal has about 3/4" free play, something had to happen with the pto clutch. The pto clutch plate could be stuck, or something happened to the pressure plate.