John Deere 5300 tractor clutch help

[mjeselskis]

New clutch assembly, pilot bearing, and throwout bearings seem to have fixed the problem. For anyone else doing it, the pivot points for the TO bearing are known to get dry and need to be taken apart, cleaned up, and relubed to get the TO bearing to move freely.

Also, I found an small access cover under the dash that lets you view the TO bearing fingers and more importantly, the input shaft as it goes into the clutch. I'm not sure we would have got it together without sticking my phone on video mode on top of that access cover so we could see what was going on as we slid it together. You can't get your head in there to see down the hole otherwise.