[macojoe]

tilt tube is easy, just keep spraying it and hammer it home! If need be add a little hest, the word is LITTLE! Once you have ut out get a nice round wire brush, I used a shot gun cleaning one. keep spraying and ram the brush in and out till clean, now wrap a rag on it loaded with grease and you will be fine.

Now the other problem, thats going to be a bear! Same spray and start moving it little by little, becarful using thr hammer here as you put it thur the midsection it will be junk. You can also unscrew the grease fittings and add new ones to get some grease in there. If you have to replace the mid be sure as stated above that the motor is good, would suck to do all that work to find out its junk!!