Has anyone removed the pivot shaft from a D2 without undoing the tracks - just jacking the tractor up, loosening off the pivot shaft retaining bolts, and sliding it out? My tractor is in a shed that doesn't have much room on one side, so I'm thinking of maybe taking off the track frame on one side, and then sliding the pivot shaft out of the other track frame without "removing it" from the tractor. If this is a dumb idea. let me know : ) Actually it's not so much the removing that I'm concerned about, it's the reinstallation. If that's going to be impossible, then I won't attempt it.

Righto thanks Jon and Gary - I suspected as much but you never know when someone has a cunning technique the rest of us haven't thought of