justin you should try and grease the nipples.Some times from the machine sitting for a long time the grease will dry out and makes it hard to move out. Rodney
like he said, grease the heck out of the pivot zerks. load it up with the auger folded in, third of the way out, 2_3 of the way out, all the way, and in between. It'll take some grease to get it free again, but this will do the trick. Once you get it freed up, be sure to hit those zerks regularly to prevent it from happening again.
You could check the adjusting rod it may need to be set to lift the auger just a bit or where the rod hooks on to the auger tube it is sort of a ball and socket deal it may need to be lubed at that point this could be where your weird noise is coming from . You know steel rubbing on steel. The far end of the rod has two nuts for adjusting unlock them then turn the one nut as if you were going to tighten it a bit this will lift the auger. Hope this helps.
Justin did you check your two limit switches.There is one under your auger support where auger sits in transport position and the other is at the elbow where your grease zerks are down it rotates.I've had one get stuck.I think they might get dirt in them and eventually get stiff and move as freely as there suppose to.I took WD40 and moved it back forth while applying the WD40.If I did this in the morning it would be stuck again in the afternoon.I went and got a new switch and never had any problems since.My auger would not swing back in from the unloading position and it was the switch under the auger support.It seems yours is the one at the elbow as it won't swing out.The switch at the elbow stops the auger when it gets all the way out,the one under the auger support stops it from coming back in.When we leave the switches on in the cab for putting the auger in or out,which we all do, these switches out on the combine cut the circuit preventing damage to the hydraulic system. If you can find a safe way for someone to move those switches while the auger is moving in and out you will probably find which one it is.(use a long stick) Hope this helps. Have a 2344 also.How do you like your machine and it's capacityIJ Don't know about you but I'm upset at Case and the other manufacterors for not producing these "small" combines anymore.If 90% of combine owners out there would buy the combine they actually need(not buy the one that's bigger than the neighbors)we would still have Class IV machines.
This combine we bought after harvest. We haven't used it yet. When we saw the combine at first it looked huge. They said it was the littlest one they made. We went from a Gleaner F2 to a 2344 combine. Alot of a difference between the 2. More electric stuff and it finally has a radio and AC that we won't have to work on We think we are really going to like it. Its about the biggest machine around here except for a Massey 8790IJIJ and a jd 9550sts. other than that it is the biggest of most of them. Mostly round here are Massy 510-760. Mostly all of them sit in the field all year and never moved. We are going to have to study for the test in the summer (picking wheat) cause of all the electric stuff. But we really like it so far. you really like your 2344IJ any problems out of it. Right now the 2344 has 657hrs on it. looks real good thanks for the help justin
I read that most combines in your area set outside year around.If I were you I would make absolutely sure your combine was stored inside(cleaned and serviced,mouse proofed).This will do more for your combines life and reliablity(trade-in value) than anything else! Good luck
Most farmers around here do just leave them outside. Sometimes there aren't ever started for 2-10 years. Usually they can't sell the combine and it sits out side until someone comes along and would like it for parts (sometimes they might fix it up) We always store our best equipment (combines, tractors, hay equipment, trucks, and anything else that needs to be in). We got the 2344 in she shed right now. We got a Gleaner F2 that sits in the shed after every harvest. Its hardly ever in the rain unless we are to far from home to get it under anything. But we try to keep everything under a roof. justin
Justin We had a 1644 before our 2344,and I found it had a little more power than the 2344.Even the Case brochures say that a 1644 has 180 and the 21and2344's have 174,but that is just the brochures.I believe the 21'sand 23's had stricter emissions to meet,thus a small decrease in power. It still has plenty of power for our 1063 and 20' flex with air-reel.I'm going to put a 22 1_2 on next year.It would also handle a 1083 if necessary.The only problems I had with it are electronics.The header up+down and field tracker switch failed but if you a 21 or 23 it is bound to happen sometime as it seems everyone around here has had it fail.I also had a header sensor go.The one on the top of the feeder house on the right hand side when sitting in the cab.I just lovvvee all these electronics.Not easy to repair with your trusty old wrench set! What's going to happen in the future when we have all these computerized and electronically controlled machines that are 10-15 years old on the used market.What a nitemare that will be then when the electronic problems start to surface.Imagine the cost of a service call then let alone the cost for electronic parts.These engineers that think up all this n!IJ@% forgot that most things work good when new but did they think about the longterm,no!They'd rather just sell you a new combine! That's why I wish I could have reset the hours to 0 on our 1644 as in my opinion these combines (1644,66,88) were the simplest and best combines Case or is that CNH ever had.