the stuff the cub shop manuel doesnt mention lol

i finaly got time to get started on a few projects on my 49? cub, first was a noisy pto shaft bearing, bought a shop manuel for it here, read it,got the pto assembly off no problem, replaced bearing no problem, now the sticky part, im new to cubs upon re assembly, the manuel didnt mention that the FRONT of the shaft must go inside the transmission shaft while at the same time you line up the pto shifter nub in its groove, while holding a flashlite in your mouth and looking thru the fill hole took me 2 hours to figure that out, [ i pulled the top off the tranny first, no seeum any help in there, also when done, the manuel left out the part about how the placement of that bearing is critical to weather the pto will stay in gear or not and the bearing does not seat on the coller on the shaft as one would think, got that working, now i need to find a noisy bearing in the left final drive and fix the brakes, i wonder what they left out about that, lol then on to they hydraulics, needs to have a kit installed or convert the tractor back to manuel lift ,what i did find was nearly every gear in the tranny and rear end had little or no wear at all, now thats nice for a tractor that old

Might try farmallcub.com.

If you had they could have told you to remove the transmission filler plug to view the pto shift lever and coupling collar during installation. They could have told you to replace the pto shift lever and coupling while you had it apart.

I have found that generally tractor shop manuals don't tell you all the steps to reassembly. I think most were written with the intent that the person doing the reassembly has had experience with similar previous work. The tricks come from guys who have done it several times or have done similar work. That is one of the things I like about this site and other sites like the Cub web site where you can get some advice from those that have been through it before. Roger

The guys are right...Farmallcub dot com. I am NOT a fan of the Cub service manual and my Cub is in pieces all over the shop. I could not get thru a week without the Cub Pros over on that site.