Combines Need help with 76 l

Is the reel feeding the auger smoothly or is material bunching on the header,souunds like the reel isn't quite adjusted right for the conditions.Maybe it needs to be closer to the auger.Had the same problem with an M in oats slide the reel back and changed the pitch,worked fine.

replace cylinder bars or if they are good level cylinder. try 3_8 cylinder clearance and max rpm. cylinder bars seems to be the problem.

Have you tried the 2.5 to 3 inch diameter tubing just behind the knife idea as outlined in other posts . It really does trip the cereals over into the platform auger and can make a huge difference to the smooth flow of crop.

First thing i see is that the finger are adjusted a little out of wack. where they are fully extended does not matter......what matters is where they are fullt retracted. If they are still out of the drum past where they need to be they will carry material over the top and wrap and plug. They need to be fully retracted at 9 o'clock or straight in middle of cylinder or in the case of auger straight back in middle of feeder beater. It really sounds as if the material is not flowing beyond this point. the cylinder needs to draw material into it....it needs to be agressive enough that it pulls enough to suck dust in. 1_2 inch is way to wide for most small grains. Cracking will also occur with too wide of cylinder clearance. How much return is thereIJ Too much of this will also crack grain. What does the ground and straw look likeIJ Is it doing a good job of threashingIJIs the threasher raddle turningIJ What is your cylinder speedIJ........vstk

Sounds like your cylinder bars are worn out,also check belt that drives auger in head, I had the adjusting bolt in spring tightner back off while harvesting wheat this year and belt slipped.How about slip clutch on feeder beater it could be out of adjustment or worn, also be sure that you are not running filler bars on cylinder if it has harvested corn in the past and be sure the sprocket on left side on cylinder shaft that drives thresher beater is the right size,also gets changed to a small sprocket for small grains and a larger to speed it up when cylinder is run slower for corn or soybeans,I can't remember the sizes without looking.

Also I have never run cylinder even close to 1_2 inch in small grains.

You say the feeder beater is plugging. To eliminate that, you did well in replacing the clutches, but did you REMOVE the clutch and add the special shims to the bearing collar side to up the torque outputIJ One can add enough shims here to take the clutch out of the equation and assuming it is not a floating beater, it will pop the n50 chain instead of slipping the clutch. Many moons ago in south la before we went to the floating beaters we would do this with success. IF the rookie operator (they were all rookies as the few used Gleaners brought into Plaqumine la area were the only combines south of I10) broke the chain it was his fault, he could not blame it on the machine as they limited them to 1st gear. later when the machines were switched out to spikes and floating beaters they were baddd dudes. Sorry about the rambling, I am getting old. Shim the clutch.

Return is minimal maybe a half a handful at a time. We are cutting short in heavy straw. But seems like whereever you hit a sopt where the ground is shallow and the grain is short there she goes. Went last night and started in some feed barley and feeds like a champ. Just seems like the stiff wheat straw causes problems. I am not saying cylinder bars are not worn, but i have a 72 l running with her and her bars are worn and concave to cylinder is at 0 and full wide open cylinder speed with next to no crack. Also the elevator chains are snug, no crack in the barley. like i said had cylinder at about half inch and speed 850 or there abouts, any more either direction and i was a flour mill. It seems to me that the angle the feed has to flow to the cylinder is to high, the hump it goes up and over to fall into the feeder beater i mean. I have heard of guys lowering the grain pan and also installing stainless steel throat in header pan and feeder beater pan. Anyone ever heard of this and how it workedIJ I am down to abut 50 acres of wheat, rest will be barley, i guess i will just tinker with it until i figure out. Willis Kinder Bliss, Idaho