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When you fill the clutch housing with fuel, you will be tearing it down for sure. This will ruin the composite clutches. Follow Crawler Heaven's advice and tear it down. A couple of things: 1. Get the Parts Manual and Service Manual. 2. To break the track, CAREFULLY blast the master pin out with a torch and replace it when reassembling. It is faster and easier and a new master is only about $10. I don't know about you but my time is worth more than that. 3. Freeze the new master overnight. It should slide right in (Ok, maybe with a little help from a hammer). 4. Now is a good time to turn the pins and bushings. 5. I had a machine that was abused. The clutch would not disengage on one side. It turned out that the vertical shaft in the housing was bent. I changed shafts on both sides and the bushings. 6. Check for cracks in all the housings. 7. I modified an engine hoist to lift finals out of the frame. I used a piece of 4" tube. I cut cut it on an angle (about 15 degrees for my hoist, remember an engine hoist is designed to lift high, it will be at the bottom of the stroke)and welded it back together to fit under the Hyd Tank and Battery Box. See No. 9. 8. You do not have to cut the track frame to remove the finals. (Seen it done, read the service manual, you don't have do it). 9. I made a lifting bracket similar to the one in the service manual from 1/2 rebar. It is hard and will not bend under the weight. Taper the ends to fit in the holes in the finals. Tap it in with a hammer, a final falling on your foot will ruin your day. 10. There is no better time to change seals. Do not remove, or if you do, abuse the seal on the axle shaft, it can be VERY expensive. 11. Get the clutch adj tool. I think I only paid like $20 at JD. The SM will give you the part no. for that model. It will save a lot of problems later. 12. Change all clutch parts brake bands, and throw out bearings. 13. Believe it not, I got better prices on some things at JD. Buy your parts from and AG JD dealer. They can get all the same parts as a construction dealer but a lot cheaper. Hence the parts manual, he will not be able to look up your part number(no const PMs on his shelf), but he will be more than happy to order the parts. 14. Replace the gaskets on the top of the clutch housings. Water will run right down in the housings if you don't. 15. Good luck.
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