Combines clutch slipping

I was told that if you did not grease that clutch often enough it would slip. Not sure if there is a way to tightnen the clutch up. When we put our Crary Air reel on, we had the header drive belt slip really bad until we tighnened it up.

sorry ment electric clutch not slip clutch

check the voltage AT THE MAGNET. 12 volts minimum. Place one test terminal on each of the screws where the wires go in to the metal. If the clutch has slipped much it will be blue and warped and will never hold. We have in somecases bee able to take the cultch and magnets to a machine shop and reface true and have them work for years. On some machines a direct fused wire to an added relay has been necessary to quick fix the voltage problem. The wire from the header clutch now just engages the relay. Ususally problem only shows up when hot operating conditions. We have had some of the spring idlers let the belts slip that come off the clutch but the oly other area is the torque cam on the header drive shaft - the lH pulley to the right of where you hook up the header. There needs to be a 1_4 gap at slow speed here between the sheaves. Also welcome to the site! ask away and hang in there, sometimes takes a while to get answer.

tbran where exactly do you put this relay

tbran where exactly do you put this relay

Anywhere convienient. Run a n12 or 10 wire from the starter batt terminal with a fuse or breaker to a 25 amp (not critical as to amp rating as the clutch draws less than 7 amps) . Then use the clutch wire that normally sends power to the clutch to energize the solinoid, and thus send power direct from the battery_alt to the clutch. BTW make SURE the ground is good. This can cause slippage as well.