about the PTO gear in tranny

[haryv]

I know that my bj-60 can have the pto mounted to the tranny or transfer box and it can power winches ect. What are procedures to power up the pto? I suspect the tranny has to be in nutural and there needs to be a third shift lever for pto?

I will eventually put on one if one can be found or just put on a electric winch.

 

[cruiser_guy]

The PTO has it's own shifter. It continuously meshes with the PTO gear but not the remainder of the PTO drive until engaged with the PTO shifter.

 

[haryv]

Thanks for the info. now how hard are thay to come by?

I dont know what thay cost or how hard thay are to come by. But the idea of a mechanical pto driven winch is a pretty cool idea. So this has its own shifter, does the vehicle need to be parked to use it or driven or both?

 

[honk]

I dont know what thay cost or how hard thay are to come by. But the idea of a mechanical pto driven winch is a pretty cool idea. So this has its own shifter, does the vehicle need to be parked to use it or driven or both?

The trans has to be in gear. Which gear dictates the winch speed along with engine RPM. It's the transfercase that is shifted to nuetral or put in gear. When it's in gear it lets you drive the truck wheels while the winch is pulling, and that can help out the winch.

 

[cruiser_guy]

The trans has to be in gear. Which gear dictates the winch speed along with engine RPM. It's the transfercase that is shifted to nuetral or put in gear. When it's in gear it lets you drive the truck wheels while the winch is pulling, and that can help out the winch.

Tranny in gear, transfer out of gear (neutral) and PTO engaged. You can drive with it (transfer engaged) but you will spool at a different rate than you're winching and you CANNOT adjust your spool rate independently from your wheel speed other than hi or low on the transfer case.

 

[Tapage]

requires times to handle it properly .. winching with traction in the tires ..

 

[haryv]

Very interesting.

Yea I had to read this twice so it made sence. So you can have the vehicle in motion or not in motion and still use the pto winch but have more control of its speed while the transfer gear is in nutral.

I wonder if perhaps this can mean the PTO can be used for special purpouses like run a generator head or a hydralic pump. Has anyone ever done this before?

It would make for a good mobile emergency communications vehicle that can also double as a generator. Also, the idea of a reverse electric motor to assist in torqe would come to mind also.

 

[fjman]

I believe unimogs can use their pto's to operate waterpumps and giant snowblowers!!!!!!! Will it work in a fj60 or is the tranfer case different? I think fj40s and 55s can be adapted...

 

[rick_d]

pto's on cruiser really only run front winches. If you have ton's of time to develop linkages for other devices the pto can run them, but I have yet to see any operational oem pto's hooked to anything but a winch in 15 years.

G&S has pto's, levers, winches, etc. A comment, pre 1990 pto levers are directly bolted to transmission and they rattle, reaaaalllly rattle. 1990+ use rubber insulators which seems like the best deal. I could not make a pre 1990 lever work without welding/fab work with the insulators. the late model '90+ lever sub assembly can be had new, and use the knob and other parts to get the unit to work.

best o luck