Ed- I dont have a deck for my 1450 yet so there's no weight at all on the shaft.i can take hold of the arm that sticks out of the frame where you'd attach the lift bar for a plow or snowthrower etc and rotate it forwards and backwards and it moves freely.the problem is we're the"float"linkage goes the hydraulic piston and the the rock shaft,that aforementioned linkage moves with the piston freely also but doesn't apply any lifting force to the rock shaft.in the am I'll see if I can email you a video off the lift moving the way I'm trying to explain