Retro-fitting a Rear PTO
 

I see from time to time a rear PTO on ebay. Like this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CUB-CADET-RE...item4170e9366e

Ignoring the price, how difficult would this be to install?

How cool would that be? What do you plan on running with that if you were to ever get one?

Brent

Price doesn't seem to bad, I think it'd be pretty awesome!!

The rear PTO's are pretty cool but they turn in the wrong direction, so you have to get one of those Hub City reverser's for about $400.00 to $500.00 bucks (picture 1) and you can run standard 500 rpm equipment. Other guy's have found or built equipment to use them as they are. :Wave:

There only value, as mentioned above, is the "Cool Factor". Functionally, they are worthless, as is.

So, back to my original question. How difficult is it to install one on an existing tractor? Does it require complete dis-assembly of the rear end, or is it simply installed by removal of the rear cover? Anybody know?

That one on ebay sold for $360.

Here ya go..... Installation Manual

if it makes it any cheaper for you....find a rear end out of a cub loboy or farmall A or cub. they will work. just need to put your axle tubes from your cub on them.

There is a lot more to it than that.

In order to install them, you have to swap out the shaft in the tranny to accept the PTO. There is a collar that slides back and forth to engage the PTO. The stock shaft doesn't work with the PTO. So the tranny has to come apart. Not too hard, just takes a little while.

Roland, you're the man! That's not too bad an install. Page 7 mentions illustration 14, but that's not shown. If I can't find a rear end with a PTO, I might try this.

I have never installed one of those Rear PTO's. I see the price(s) that they are being sold for and just can't justify the expense, considering there is no use for them nor on any of my Cubs.

I love the looks of rear pto's but no real use for them.:bash2: The hardest thing in the install is getting the engagement lever on the pto shaft so it will engage with the lever. No real tips in doing but keep trying until you get it.

I realize there is no real use for the rear PTO, but it's on the list of features that I've always wondered about.

When I first bought the 108 (35 years ago), I used to go into the IH dealer and peruse the racks of attachment brochures, being fascinated by the array of possibilities. At the time I could never justify or afford them. Still can't "justify" them from a practical sense, but financially, it's much easier at this point in life. We try to relive our youth through collecting things that have fond memories for us. Cubs is just another way to do that.