What am I looking at?

[TYMinColton]

Can anyone tell me what I'm looking at? This is the front end of a Ford 881D that has a seized engine. I'm trying to bar her over. At first I was placing a large wrench over an odd shaped piece of steel bolted over the pulley. The inside of this piece clearly is the female receiver for a hand crank of some sort.



After pulling on this for several days I didn't like that it was doing some damage, so I decided to just remove it - hoping to find the legendary "pulley nut". Well there's a 15/16th nut for sure, but is this the pulley nut?

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if I crank to the left it comes off - and with an easy tug so does the pulley it holds in place (gunked in with white silicone mind you). This exposes the front end of the crankshaft that has a 16 tooth or so splined end. I really don't like the feel when I try to bar her over by tightening this nut down on the pulley. What am I doing wrong here? Should I be baring over using the piece attached to the pulley?

 

[beaner68]

if i am right i think it has something to do with front mounted pto equipment seen a similar post in here somewhere but dont remember where

 

[Farmwithjunk]

It's there to attach front mounted hydraulic pumps, ect. ("stinger pump"....usually for a loader, ect)

 

[TYMinColton]

Yup. You guys are both right. Sorry, somehow I ended up with duplicates threads. The other "version" had a bunch of responses with a similar conclusion.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/parts-repairs/127152-what-am-i-looking.html

Thanks!
Pete