"To adjust the PTO, the nuts on the end of the three screws must me either loosened or tightened. In your case they need to be loosened. There's a total of 6 nuts (2 on each screw). The inner one is the actual adjustment and the outer one holds the inner one in place. They are often a pain to loosen, ask me how I know
. There is a specific tool to adjust them but because I don't have the tool I had to do with feel.
It's not easy to explain without showing it but unfortunately I don't have any pictures."
So I have Type B in your pictures. Are you saying I need to adjust the bolts (13 and 14) on the backside of the PTO screws labeled #10 in the diagram?
I have that specific adjustment tool and the distance is set to spec per the manual instructions. :/ Essentially you're saying by loosening the bolts on the the three fingers off a little, the thrust button should come out a little? Won't that make the whole thing harder to disengage?
And yes, lots of slop in the linkages, to include the PTO lever and all the linkages to the thrust arm. At one point I had it running, but only when I pulled the lever towards me about an inch and held it there right on the cusp of the engaged/disengaged point.