Super A Belt Drive

Dellbertt · Nov 1, 2009

The filler plug for the belt drive left of the umbrella bracket.
1. Does the PTO and belt drive use the same filler hole.

2. Where is the fill to plug for the belt drive.

3. What is the capacity for the belt drive oil.

Thanks,
Dell

ScottyHOMeY · Nov 1, 2009

1) Yes. More on that in a sec.

2) There is no fill level plug for the PTO/belt unit. It is not a self-contained unit and it shares its oil with the tranny.

3) The way the book puts it, the tranny takes 5 quarts by itself, and another half-quart if you have the PTO/pulley attachment.

There's a discussion started by dpskiof the same thing on a SuperC PTO down about page 4. The PTO/pulley gets its lube from a slinger gear in the tranny. There is a small reservoir under the gears or the belt pulley, which accounts for the extra 1/2 quart. There is drain for it at the bottom right of the belt pulley. As mkirsch noted in that thread, you could if you wanted, fill the entire transmission through the fill on top of the belt pulley, as anything more than what that reservoir at the bottom of it holds will overflow back down into the tranny. Even if you went at it that way, you would only fill to the level of the same plug that you used to check the level of the oil in the transmission, the one up by the left brake pedal. As long as your oil slinger is slinging, you can assume the PTO/belt unit will have the necessary oil.

Dellbertt · Nov 1, 2009

Good thing to know.
I should have drained the belt pulley at the same time as the trans to get all the crud out. And I am going to do that today.
It sounds like only a half quart should come out of the belt resevoir but we shall see.
Thanks,
Dell

ScottyHOMeY · Nov 1, 2009

The reservoir there is nothing more than what amounts to a bowl to hold some oil for when you start up the PTO/pulley, so that 1/2 quart should be about right, and I apologize for not suggesting you drain that before you got to changing out the tranny.

It's your call whether to drain and add the 1/2 quart back. My thinking is that, where you've run it with kerosene and with new oil, that would have mixed in with and then overflowed from what was in the reservoir when you changed out the tranny oil, so worst case is you'll have basically no more contaminant in the box than what was left in that 1/2 quart of dirty (wouldn't be a worry to me). What you drain out now may at this point look just like what's in the rest of the tranny, so a fresh 1/2 quart may not make much difference. It's a can't hurt/might help sort of thing, it's not a bad little exercise with no more cost than a half-quart of gear oil, and you'll be more familiar with your tractor when you're done.

The drain plug for the pulley is just above and to the right of where the PTO shaft passes through the casting. Should be a square-head pipe plug.

Super A Belt Drive

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