NDDan
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You said in ealier post you have discharge beater impeller. Are the knotched edge of blades outwardIJ If not turn them outward for smooth discharge blades can have trouble pulling material from rotor. This will cause constipation, power consumption, and ground up straw. Did you check for any reverse rasp cylinder bars and if so how many and what positionsIJ Gleaner labels the bars next to discharge row A and row next to drive gearbox on large machines row D. You might want to measure distribution auger flighting and compare with new. I only know of one machine that ever needing new flighting installed. It is normal to have a discharge paddle off the end of every cylinder bar on these machines. Sounds like you do have the extended bars. Discharge paddles should look more like a piece of flat iron bolted to end of cylinder with two bolts. There should be a single gusset bolted to end of rotor which supports the paddle about mid way. If the paddles look like angle iron I would check with dealer to see if they installed something different. Now the next bare minimum thing I think you should check to see if you have is a triangle filler in top left corner of feeder just prior to cylinder. This filler should be in place and a helical bar run accross it. If you see nothing like this then ask your dealer if he installed when he did your helicals.