Thanks Chris. I'll double check myself when I place it in a &quot;gear&quot;. 

I ordered an I&amp;T manual to help get me started. I'll be watching for a factory service manual. 

I started pulling the steps off and blocking things up to split it. I took a look under the PTO access cover on the bottom side. Looks like a grease grenade with PTO disc shrapnel went off in there. If there is one complete fiber disc I'll be amazed! Looks like total PTO clutch pack rebuild will be in the future as well. 

Small consolation, I did figure out that the PTO handle was set wrong on the shaft to rest to far aft from the latch. That'll be the easy part setting that right. 

Do I need to pull the PTO shaft out to split? Anything I might need to know that isn't obvious?

Thanks again!