Combines 1680 brakes

[larryNCKS]

Bleed the system at the slaves first. If that doesn't do it, you'll need to replace master cylinder unless there's a massive leak at a line or slave.

 

[Dave]

I didn't know they even had brakes on the 1680. Mine has pedals but I thought they were just left over parts from some thing else. Honestly, I quit trying to keep them working years ago. I was afraid I was going to burn the machine up if they stuck on anymore. I should take the pedals out or lock them up so nobody tries to use them and burns up the machine.

 

[Dave]

I didn't know they even had brakes on the 1680. Mine has pedals but I thought they were just left over parts from some thing else. Honestly, I quit trying to keep them working years ago. I was afraid I was going to burn the machine up if they stuck on anymore. I should take the pedals out or lock them up so nobody tries to use them and burns up the machine.

 

[west_illini]

That has always been my thought. I am goning to need more steering control in this mud,is why I was going to fix them up. May not go to too much trouble tho. Putting tracks and taller rear tire on.

 

[Dave]

Have you had someone watch the brake cylinders while you push the pedalIJ It could be they are working but need to be set up. I could get mine set but they would stick and not release, then they would get hotter than crap. Scares the heck out of you when you start smelling the linings. I have never heard anyone here figure out a way to get them to work for very long. Hard to believe with all the brake systems that have been used over the years and the price of a combine, that they wouldn't design reliable brake system for this combine. They would love to sell a new one though. I talked to a district manager about some of the high wear and maintanence areas on these machines. I ask him why they couldn't make the obvious wear points heaveier and_or replacable. He said they try to make the machines as light as possible to save on weight and cost. I don't dissagree with that theory but a replacable bin floor insert or heavier auger tubes shouldn't add too much cost or weight to a combine. Got of your subject a bit. I just got done replacing the outer unload auger tube and had to patch a hole in the clean grain elevator top boot, just put a new one on three years ago. Good luck

 

[Deadduck]

Case-IH does offer a lot of extended wear parts for these combines, such as augers, trasition cones, transport vanes, rotor cages, rasp bars, clean grain elevator, etc. The rice models have a lot of these parts on them, since rice wears the machines very quickly. But they cost a lot more, so you'll have to decide whether it's worth it. Besides, if your talking about a 1680, it's at least a 12 year old machine. Probably about time to have some stuff wear out.

 

[Deadduck]

Opps, just noticed you replaced your clean grain head 3 years ago. That is pretty short life. You can get an exteded wear complete clean grain elevator, but I don't know if you can get just the head.

 

[Dave]

I understand the parts won't last forever but, some of them don't last very long at all and they are the same parts as the new machines have. Yes, I have seen some of the augers and elevators are available in a heavy duty version. I have some in my machine now. And yes, I know my machine is 13 years old but it will harvest more bushels today than the day it was new, thanks to updates. My dealer would like to sell me a new one but, my partners can't keep the grain hauled away from this one. Great capacity just would like to see them make the machine more repair friendly on high wear items(bin floor ect). I just can't see a new machine improve my harvest enough to justify the cost yet. I will be repairing the same items in three years as I am now.

 

[Rusty6]

I've had several incidents of smoking brakes on my 1660 in the 6 years I've owned it. I've found that its best not to use the brakes at all. And really theres not much need for brakes on these combines most of the time. Mine dragged pretty bad when I was cruising down the road at full transport speed the first time. I was wondering why it was powering out on every little hill and finally stopped in a cloud of smoke. Its amazing how hot those brakes can get and not do any permanent damage. Just some burnt paint on the sides.

 

[Deadduck]

Dave, I didn't notice that you said you had just replaced the elevator head when I first replied. 3 years does seem a pretty short lifespan in grain or corn. We farm rice, so I guess we get used to replacing parts. Wasn't knocking your running a 1680, we ran a 1460 for a long time. We finally replaced it because we started growing more grain and needed more capacity, but we can't afford to buy new. We bought a '98 2388 in 2002 with 1100 separtator hours, with 25' 1020 header for $70,000. It had spent most of it's time in rice but didn't have the ext. wear package, so we knew there was a good bit of wear on it. All augers had been replaced with ext. wear though. We ran it for two years without doing anything to it. This year, at 1500 sep hrs, we spent close to $12,000 on it, replacing the transition cone, complete clean grain elevator, rotor cage and vanes with extended wear items from CaseIH. We also replaced the elephant ears with the Stewart Steel Axceller Kit, which increased performance quite a bit. So I'll agree with you that they wear pretty quickly, especially in rice. We also had a welder put stainless steel auger bottoms in our grain tank this year, as it was getting thin. A mechanic friend of ours that used to work for CaseIH and now works for Deere helped us go through our machine. He said that the 50 series STS's wore out even quicker, but that they had beefed up the 60 series some. I think they're all made out of metal that's too thin.