863 corn head is done!!!! Well.....almost.....

Dave H (MI) · Nov 10, 2014

OK. Stupid question. We are completely done with this beast. It is ALL back together. Shields and everything. Not a nut or bolt out of place. Manually tested to make sure nothing hits anything else. Now the stupid question...

We CANNOT get the darn thing hooked to the combine. So, if you don't mind, could we just run down how this is supposed to work? the unit is mounted on the combine and latched underneath. There is a hex drive shaft on each side that has a sliding sleeve which I assume is supposed to go over the drive shafts that are on either side of the feeder housing. Sleeves slide easily on the hex shaft of the header but will not slide onto the combine drive shafts. Not on either side. Is there a trick to this?

IaGary · Nov 10, 2014

I assume you turned the shafts to line up the hex with each other.

I have never seen another size but do both halves measure the same diameter?

Lastly do they not line up forward and back if so loosen the chains on the outside of the head and pull the shaft into alignment.

There is only one bearing holding that shaft on the head and it will pivot in the bearing holder.

If the head was set up for field tracker it will have two bearing holders out there on the end. Then you may have to slide the shaft in the brackets that hold the bearings.

Gary

Gary

gcnehring · Nov 10, 2014

Does your 1660 have field tracker? Pics of shaft on sides of feeder house would help. No known reason why couplers wouldn't slide on.

Dave H (MI) · Nov 10, 2014

No field tracker. I don't know what it looks like, honestly, but quite sure I don't have it. It's a pricey add on and the seller would have been all over it during the sale.

We finished the corn head up very late on this very fine afternoon (50+ degrees). It was starting to get dark and we decided to quit. I always have the option of dropping the head and pulling the sleeves off the hex shaft and trying them on the combine shafts by themselves. That should give me a clearer picture. I just want to make sure we are not doing something wrong because...believe it or not...this is the very first time I have put a head of any kind on a combine!

So the sleeve slides over the combine shaft. May I ask what keeps the sleeve from sliding back off? There are holes in the sleeves but nothing in them. A bolt, pin or similar?

Thanks much!

IaGary · Nov 10, 2014

Yep. Put a bolt or pin through the hole.

Gary

Dave H (MI) · Nov 10, 2014

Thanks. I will take a fresh look at it in the AM. Just had me beat by 5 PM today. I couldn't even begin to tell you how much we had to do to get that wrapped up, but it actually looks like a corn head now and not the pile of scrap I hauled home...LOL!

duane966 · Nov 10, 2014

I run an 843 on a 1620. I got rid of the hex shaft coupler several years ago. I now use the
universal/pto type connector that is used on the 1000 series. works much better and easier than the hex shaft coupler. the hex shaft will wear and coupler will round the hex shaft. we always had to drive the coupler on and off. dealer had one laying around and gave me a heck of a deal. something to think about.

fwiw

Duane

RODGEinIL · Nov 10, 2014

Found a 1000 series U joint coupler on the road one night... My 843 couples to the 815 much easier!

Dave H (MI) · Nov 11, 2014

I'll see how this goes today with some light to look at it. But, yeah...I agree. A better coupler would be a good thing.

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