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Old 05-01-2011, 03:27 PM
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I have a question about hooking up a hitch or implement to the garden tractor and since I'm not for sure if this thread should be placed in the implement section or garden tractor section since it involves both items, I placed it here. I was wondering if there is any special technique for unbolting only a few bolts from the transmission cover to bolt on a hitch or right angle gear box so as not to cause a leak of the fluid from the seal/gasket? I was not successful on a 129 the last time I did this, so I thought it was time to ask others. I am basically wondering if draining out the fluids would help prevent it from leaking. Thanks for your help in advance!!!

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Ive been pretty lucky to never loose any fluid when doing this, but you might want to try backing the rear up on some ramps or something to get most of the fluid to settle toward the front of the tranny. I would think having the top few bolts still secured would stop the cover from flexing enough to allow any leakage, but it sounds like its happened to you before

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I just put the two point bar on my 782 at the bottom and my cover leaked a bit till I got the bolts back in and torqued. It's been dry since. The main thing is to make sure all the bolts are torqued to spec.
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Ive been pretty lucky to never loose any fluid when doing this, but you might want to try backing the rear up on some ramps or something to get most of the fluid to settle toward the front of the tranny. I would think having the top few bolts still secured would stop the cover from flexing enough to allow any leakage, but it sounds like its happened to you before

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I just put the two point bar on my 782 at the bottom and my cover leaked a bit till I got the bolts back in and torqued. It's been dry since. The main thing is to make sure all the bolts are torqued to spec.
I jacked mine up and torqued back to spec and had no problems. Helps to be quick but expect some drips. Unless you stop and go eat something your not going to lose enough to cause a problem.
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Funny that this came up. I am planning to install a sleeve hitch on my 125 and I figured that I just assumed that I would lose the fluid. I ordered a new gasket so I could put it all back together nice. Now that I know this, I am going to let it all drain anyway and replace the filter. I have only owned the tractor for a year and have no idea when the fluid or filter was changed last anyway.
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