Thread: Thomas PTO position on back of LT95

Originally Posted by rar110

I just re-read your post. Horizontal is interesting. Being leaf sprung are the chassis rails spaced further apart allowing more room on the inside?

Well, it is more kind of slightly below horizontal. From memory the chassis on the series is narrower than the 110, certainly the wheel track is. The issue was more to with fitting it past the exhaust. As it is, there is not a lot of room between the chassis and the PTO.

Make sure you check if you have a 110 or RR one, the 110 one should be longer. The drop part is about 330mm or about 215mm from gear centre to PTO drive line centre.

Here's a pic of how the drive line runs on the Perentie. The parts scale while showing the parts that make up this it is hard to see how it runs from PTO to winch.

There have been similar threads on this, took some finding though !!

Modifying a transfer PTO winch drive

Series 3 Stage 1 and Thomas Winch

Unfortunately some of the pics have disappeared.

thanks for the replies everyone. Andrew your diagram was very helpful. It showed the previous owner had the shafts fitted the wrong way round with the short section of shaft near the PTO instead of near the winch. It was fitted by a dealer up north so you would expect better. It worked ok which is the main thing I suppose.

Can anyone tell me where the front bracket mounts to, I have a photo which is a little unclear but it looks like it mounts on to the chassis at the engine mount. Brian I remember taking some photos of your set up but cant find them of course.

Originally Posted by rar110

thanks for the replies everyone. Andrew your diagram was very helpful. It showed the previous owner had the shafts fitted the wrong way round with the short section of shaft near the PTO instead of near the winch. It was fitted by a dealer up north so you would expect better. It worked ok which is the main thing I suppose.

Can anyone tell me where the front bracket mounts to, I have a photo which is a little unclear but it looks like it mounts on to the chassis at the engine mount. Brian I remember taking some photos of your set up but cant find them of course.

I will take a photo this morning and put it up later.

Spot on Pete. It bolts to the bottom of the engine mount.

Thanks Brian. I priced that bracket to see if it was worth making. It came in at $1395. So I'll be digging out a piece of angle and making one.

The more I look at my winch and compare with diagrams & photos the more I see it wasn't set up properly.

The middle shaft is supposed run on two bearings each held in a bracket that attaches to the chassis. On my setup one of those bearing/bracket's has been fitted to the short shaft that attaches to the winch. So the next question is how do I remove it from one shaft and fit it to the other? I am thinking that I press it off with a piece of pipe and a jack.