Combines l3 hyper mods

[tbran]

make sure the feeder beater is good. Steel guides. Hard surfaced wide spaceds bars - try to get the FRONT edge hardsurfaced so the bar will not erode under the hard surface and leave a 'tit'. 25 tooth sprocket on lh cylinder spkt unless belt drivc, make sure anti feed back grate is in, make sure thresher grate and channels are good and cylinder is level. Remove or tie up steel curtain over raddle except for wheat. Check raddles and idlers ; augers and troughs. Check dampner plate on eng. Make sure all idlers are true and check the rh pivot_ stub to be sure it is not pulled rearward. Make sure main clutch shaft VS pulley has the grease zerk on the outter edge and it is open. Check throat pivot bushings for wear as well. Also check rear wheel brgs and pack - very seldom done as are the brgs on the pivot shaft stubs, both sides. This is the VS pulley on the rh side and the counter shaft on the lh side.Other than even feeding and agressive cylinder, thats about all the options unless hillside performance is needed. Pretty tough old gals.

 

[tj]

One of our experienced operators would like to email you details, etc. -- can you provide your email addy on a postIJ If not, his phone is (402) 373-4367 -- hope this helps.

 

[R_O_M]

About 25 years since I ran an l2. In our particular patch in SE Australia, which in those days only grew small grains such as wheat and barley, we always had trouble with walking grain out regardless of the colour of the combine. This was probably due to the straw characteristics that were the result of local environmental factors and soil types. The capacity of the walker machines were often limited by the amount of walker losses we were able to live with. I eventually cut out the solid flat sheet on the back of the concave and below the beater and replaced it with a cell grate made from 1_8 x 1" flat on 1" spacings. I also made filler bars for the cell grate in case it did not work. We ran the l2 for a day or so with the open cell grate and then put the filler bars in to see if there was any difference. The filler bars were pulled out again after about 2 hours combining and were never installed again as long as we had that combine. There was an improvement of about 10 to 15% increase in capacity due entirely to the walker losses being drastically reduced by the addition of the concave cell grate.

 

[posum]

acasey6713@embarqmail.com

 

[ajco]

do the top screen mod_ make 1st 7 to 9 rows adjust separatly. helps on hills and increases speed you can drive without losing grain.

 

[tbran]

I don't know how they did it, but we had a customer or two raise the rear of the walkers an inch or two, run a 14 tooth driven walker shaft spkt instead of the 15 tooth and they said it helped in corn, we never ran into a walker loss situation in our wheat or soybeans. I think customers also added two extra risers per walker as well. I never saw this, and I don't reccommend anything I didn't witness, just reporting.. but I have no reason to doubt it - seems logical.

 

[NDDan]

We drilled new hole to tilt front of sieve down a couple inches. The allen head stub for pivoting sieve on during installation would have to be lowered approx 1". This provided more air to chaffer and cured losing grain when going uphill. This more closely matched the position of sieve in air stream to the Ns.

 

[posum]

thanks tj call me so that I can get some more info Alan Casey 919-669-0845