Hi Andreas! Yes, I'm Norwegian.
The ring has settled on an empty part of the shaft, it's just a hole in the housing. You can see bearing 39 in the back, and close up in picture 2. There is indeed a gap between the bearing and shaft in front, but you can also see part of a locking ring poking out of the shade near the bottom.
There are roughly 2 mm left of the housing/hole behind bearing 39 before it opens up into the next compartment. I can't see a ridge or stopper. Since there's only one circlip in the parts diagram, I guess the hole narrows towards the rear and that the bearing goes in from the front? Or it's already touching the ridge.
Could this be a locking ring that just sits on the shaft, not in a groove? Would attaching the bearing to the shaft with something like Loctite 603 be an ok fix? Or can I just assume that the bearing has rusted stuck and won't move, even without a circlip, and even if I doused the area in rust remover preparing to dismantle the shaft..? Since the locking ring came off, it wasn't that great in the first place, and now it's probably even worse. Would I glue that in place as well, or just cut and remove?
The hydraulics are fine, I'm just wondering what to do with this ring/bearing situation.
I opened the gearbox since my PTO lever wasn't aligned properly, going into gear in some random place and the PTO was slipping out of gear under load. I loosened the lever, pulled it out of the gearbox to disengage from the gear selector sleeve/muff and moved the lever/sleeve back and forth until they lined up correctly (by feel and spinning the PTO by hand). It now hits both gears and spins freely in the middle.
The bracket holding the PTO lever in place (part 28) was actually broken in half by the bolt hole, but still seemed to hold the lever in place. That's 4 mm thick steel. I wasn't able to check the internal parts for damage. I can't really see anything down there, and would rather not pick everything apart. If I need to replace parts, I guess I'll notice soon enough.
