Gleaner Spike Teeth

I'm in the process of rebuilding a L2 hydro Corn Plus.... It now has a spike tooth cylinder in real need of attention. Agco dealer wanted 8.50 a spike. Is that out of line?

Not sure, but i did see a spike tooth tool,too remove the teeth in the cyl .from the top down, but i am sure your going to remove entire spike cyl, and put in a rasp bar cyl.

Whatever you do, do NOT buy the aftermarket ones from A&I parts. I think they were like $3 or $4 each. To get the old ones out, dad had to clamp vise grips on the spike and hammer away with an impact to get them loose. Some bent ones, most just all worn out. Dad went ahead and bought the aftermarket ones and while installing them, found that as soon as the impact would even start to tighten, it would pull the stud right off the back of the spike. He decided to try it by hand, and found the same issue. So he didn't tighten them as tight as he thought they should, and went ahead and ran some beans, then found he had a lot of loose spikes. Back to breaking them off again. Had a rock get into it, wiped out about 15 spikes, never popped the rock door open like it did with the old ones. He had to run though, so he kept replacing the broken new spikes with his worn out ones. By the time he was done doing soybeans he only had about 3 of the new spikes left. Even heavy feeding would break them off. They seemed to be hard and all, just so hard they were brittle. Looked like they were very high carbon, almost a granular appearance where the stud would fracture off the spike. So he still needed new spikes to run corn. Happened to be looking at a JD combine at Worthingtons, I believe it was a 9500, but not for certain. Anyway, dad noticed it had almost brand new spikes on it, JD ones at that, that looked about the same size as his Gleaner ones. He went and got one of his and they matched perfectly. He bought every spike on that combine, they were basically new, for $1 each. And, since that combine is so much bigger than his Gleaner, he has almost enough to change them twice. Ran all of his corn that year, and corn and soybeans last year with it, worked great. He was going to just go buy the AGCO ones, but just happened along that JD first.

Ross
Might want to try these?

Looked up what I paid from a dealer last year for just a few for a F2, and it was $8.52 each.

Well I have 850 into spike teeth. I just got the combine home and already putting a new SCH 3" knife in, 125 new Agco spikes, pulling the rattle chains covers next, new filters and I mean inter air outer air oil fuel ext.. But it's just in such good shape.