Alamo JD-5105, JD-5525, JD-5425, JD-5225, JD-5205, JD-5325 manual

Drive Shaft Installation - 5105 & 5205 (ONLY)

Drive Shaft Installation:

The Tractor will need modification to some of its components before mounting the Switch Blade nower Assembly. Perform these modifications before attemting any of the unit assembly

instruction.
As you will notice after drilling the 1-1/2
hole into the front bolster there is another part of
the tractor that will also need to be modified.		This is the
Right behind the bolster casting there is a part of	This hole
		area that
the front axle that will have to be grinded out as	cut
		must be
shown in (Figure 1). These procedure is needed	w/1-1/2"
		ground
in order to allow for driveline clearance, as you	hole saw
		down for
will notice the driveline has also been modified	for
		driveshaft
	driveshaft
for this particular application only. As you can		clearance
	access
see getting to the part that needs grinding is not		JD-5105
	to
going to be easy. After observing your situation
	crankshaft	&
and after reading the two procedures mentioned
	pulley	JD-5205
below you need to determine which way you feel
is better for you. First, you can raise the hood		ONLY
	Figure 1
and disassemble the battery and the radiator,
basicly the same procedure you have to do with
the other models in this manual. Once you re-
move the plate then you will have access with an
angle grinder or a die grinder to remove material
needed to allow driveline clearance. Second, our
installer chose to use a die grinder with a 3/4"
grinding bit and welded a piece of 1/4" rod to the
bit approximately 8"lg. and then reached in there
and started grinding, he felt that it was the better
way to go about it verses disassembling all the
components on top of the plate and having to
remove it also.

Switchblade (JD-5105-5205-5225-5325-5425-5525 Asy. Man.) 05/05

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