tbran
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yeah, but you gotta realize lbran may have to get the benefit of the doubt as when we were young and did things like piling loose hay on the ground and jumping into it from the hayloft. we always threw lbran out head first to see if we had enuff hay to be safe..... he is a real test pile-it....... anyway the fingers on the feeder beater should be set so as to be fully retracted BEFORE they start up in the back half of travel. This mean when looking from the lh side of the beater the fingers should be fully retracted at the 5 o'clock position. 4 oclock at the latest in short dry stuff. If the fingers stay in too long they will tend to lift the crop and as the cyl pulls it back down it will either slip the clutch or break the chain. Also the slip clutch for the feeder beaters shim BETWEEN THE ClUTCH AND THE lOCK COllAR FOR THE BEATER DRIVE SHAFT! If this area isn't shimmed properly all the springs in the world won't do a bit of good. To my memory E's didn't have FB slip clutches unless one used the slipclutch for the corn head drive. They drove from the lh instead of the right like k-l's
