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John_New Readers At the left side of the main page click on the tips section then on gleaner upgrades then on the pictoral.Give it some time to load then click on the many upgrades.If your 70 is an early one it has the P1 processor,later model the P3 processor.Follow the instructions for a quantum leap in performance either way.The extended helicials are one of the many upgrades.Tough beans are where these upgrades were bred.Born of frustration.No.1 reason I've now found for customers to jump colors is loss of dealership,not lack of performance,reliability or features.Thanks to all of you for your input at Heston,larry's notebook was nearly full. Good luck! Hyper

I extended the helical bars in my 1987 R60 and changed it from a two paddle discharge to a four paddle discharge, the difference was night and day. I now have great capacity in green stemmed soybeans and 200+ bu corn. R60 can now cut green stemmed soybeans and never work the motor. It gave the combine 30% to 50% more capacity in green stemmed soybeans and 10% to 20% more capacity in corn. The boost pressure gauge never even moves off the bottom, the machine never moans and groans, just sails thru the field.

Hey John You are lucky to have a dealer who will tell you about how to goose your R70 to a 21st century level. Thanks to Hyper, Hyper II, Dan, lbran, tbran, and others on this page, my modified R60 has greatly improved capacity. It really is fun cutting soggy-stemmed beans without fear of plugging. Set it and forget it. Tom in MN

I'm also going to presume you have the P1 for that is the only system that there is a helical extention kit from Gleaner. It would be some extra helicals for thresher side and a couple the help the straw make a nice transition to the seperator helicals. That kit would be a most important one to start waking up machine. You would still need that kit if you were to go further and shim helicals by 1_4" or double stack which would be shimming helicals by 3_8". Some shim helicals on thresher side only and some shim all the way threw. An alternative to the flat iron helicals is channel iron helicals. I would prefer channel iron helicals but you could get by cheaper with the shimming. If you want to find out what most people do for your crops then you should post that question.

No, ours is a 91 model (orange stipe) with a P3.

Maybe your dealer was talking about extended cylinder bars which are a must for the P3. Find out what he is talking about and let us know. Maybe he extended the third helical from gearbox over feeder opening which helps prevent rock door from opening prematurely, reduces load on rear feed left side, and prevents major amount of once threshed crop from going over concave again. Maybe that R60 had worn out helicals and the dealer put in a new set of chrome ones. I've threshed in the toughest conditions with these machines with speed when many others couldn't move a wheel so stick with it and you won't be sorry.