Jschal et al: Saturday the 20th of September, My brother, Dad and I just tore apart a 5047 transmission from a 1054 and rebuild using some gears from another one we had and added some new parts ordered from toro. My father has two 1054's and two B-80's and a lot more older parts than I even knew until this weekend.

We came up with some good mechanical information on the rebuild. I had purchhased new replacement spring (toro # 106030), pin and and detent balls as we wanted to make sure the shifting would be good. We had another older transmission (and some loose older parts from anoterh one he had) which was my fathers orginal from 1964 that had never been removed or worked on. Most gears were very worn and third was just about shot.

We realized after one placement of the balls, new spring and pin that that shifting forks would need a three foot crow bar on them to move the shift rails. The shifting rails would hardy move and we knew the pin, spring and balls were holding it too thight.

We took it apart again (we actually did not have the case back together again) and placed the old spring against the new spring on a steel table and came up with a figure of an1/8 of an inch that needed to be removed from the new shift pin (5614 from toro) in order to go back in the transmission with the old shift rails. We also compared another shift rail we had that showed about 1/16 more moon-shaped depth on it. So my father said an 1/8 removed ought to do it and he ground it off (making another one for future use if necessary).

I guess the newer shift rails were indented deeper thus the need for a longer spring and longer steel shift pin to place in the spring between the steel detent balls. We decided to use the old spring we still had (never did find an old shift pin-but we did find three or four old balls in the transmission case we were working on).

Two reasons I am writing this. First, my mother came up with the suggestion on how we cold best install the balls and spring on our next rebuild. Early Sunday morning the 21st, we got up and went to work using a bamboo chopstick to hold the spring, shift pin and balls in place with the 2nd gear shift rail placed in the shaft.

This worked perfectly and held everything in place until the second shift rail could be installed in place. I called this China meets USA transaxle rebuilding.

My second reason is that we had the 56 page transmission repair manual and it helped a lot on re-reading. We have done before on older tractors but the trick of shifting gears onece the balls and shift rails are in place is how you get your gears back in order to reassble the two sides of the case.

Although we messed around with this four about five or six hours on Saturday we had the thing rebuilt in one hour Sunday am and that was with the hubs, brake and drive gear back on!

Now we have one good spare for the two 1054's!