Bearing,​​ Needle

Needle bearings were all worn out....replaced bearings and now it’s fine. My first time inside a rear tine tiller tranny...hopefully, my last.

1. Took entire tiller apart .
2. Removed motor.
3. Tore down transmission .
4. Checked condition of all parts .
5. Cleaned all good parts .
6. Ordered parts needed.
7. Received parts .
8. Put transmission back together .
9. Put tiller back together.
10. TAKE LOTS OF PICTURES AS YOU TAKE THE TILLER APART . THIS WILL BE VERY HELPFUL .
11. Used over a gallon of marine grease .
12 . Make sure the transmission moves in every gear before reassembling tiller .
13. Replace ALL bearings .

Replaced needle bearings, drive chain and the input shaft. it was pretty much a straight forward disassembly of the entire rototiller. With the exception of the removal of the left hand side tines and drive wheel. It required using the two arm puller for removal of these items. the only issue I had with reassembly was the rear tine axle seals. they had a pretty tight tolerance, and I had to heat them up to expand them to fit on the hubs. As far as special instructions, I would recommend not removing the three shaft nuts on the left hand side of the transmission during disassembly and splitting of the transmission body. It's not needed, and the re-tightening of these nuts can be a little tricky as far as over tightening them. You should turn the Tine axle during re-tightening to make sure all of the gear works is turning smoothly before you move to reassembly of the rest of the tiller. Nothing worse than taking it back apart to loosen something.