Removing the gear reduction from the spare engine.

Today I pulled the gear reduction off the spare motor.   I figured it would be easier to work with the motor without but now know that one should not run the engine this way as gear reduction unit acts as the crankshaft bearing for that side.  But this does give me some idea of what to expect if I have to swap engines.  I suppose the right thing to do is to put it back one.  I should get an image of the plate to see what the gear reduction is.

I used the Kwik Way Dirt Master Backhoe to do the heavy lifting.

The stuff draining out looks a lot like old gear oil. The AENL manual states that the gearbox uses the same oil as the engine

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