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[Richard Fink Sr]

Thanks farmer i have saw the pilot bushing you speak of and the replacement 
bearing.   i am going to try every thing before i think about breaking it 
in half to replace the clutch. Because this unit has a full cab on it.
R Fink

>         Additionally, ( not instead of) be sure to check the pilot
>bearing. Some are bushings and some are ball bearings.
>Either way a loose one will let the tranny input shaft try
>to wobble around and make the clutch chatter. It is a
>little like trying to set a disk sander down flat and fire
>it up...   :-)
>         We had a Ferguson that the dealer had put a clutch in many
>years ago. When we put a clutch in it later the pilot
>bearing was a very thick walled brass bushing pressed into
>a fairly large hole in the flywheel. I don't know if it was
>original or not. It was badly worn and the clutch would
>really growl with the pedal down. When we bought a new
>bearing for it it was a ball bearing unit. It fit the hole
>in the flywheel perfectly and the growl was gone. I believe
>that I had looked at the cut-away picture in the original
>manual and it pictured a ball bearing there. Maybe the
>brass bushing was a cheapie replacement that the dealer had
>used.
>Good luck.
>
>--
>"farmer"
>Hewick Midwest
>
>The master in the art of living makes little distinction
>between his
>work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and
>his body,
>his information and his recreation, his love and his
>religion. He
>hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision
>of
>excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide
>whether he
>is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
>  ~ James A. Michener, attributed
>
>Francis Robinson
>Central Indiana USA
>robinson at svs.net
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