F2 long and short shoe?

Tractorcedric · Oct 24, 2016

I have an F2 and I read on here that there is a long and short shoe in these. How do you tell which one you have? Mine has been used for small grains and alfalfa. What would I need to cut soybeans? The finger guides in front drum are plastic not metal.

paul · Oct 24, 2016

1977 was he short shoe model. If diesel, it had the 6 cyl diesel. Later had the turbo 4 cyl.

Paul

JMS/.MN · Oct 24, 2016

Long shoe F2 starts at sn 39201. Plastic guides are fine, steel are just longer lasting. Either one, replace as soon as damaged, otherwise the fingers will tear up the feeder beater drum. Cyl speed, concave clearance, chaffer and sieve settings are different for different grains. Details in your operator manual. Start with those settings and adjust per results.

cornerpost · Oct 26, 2016

Dad had late F Diesel and a F2 with 4 cylinder turbo. We preferred the 6 cylinder. Got to be good at replacing clutch in F2. Long and short he went to 6620 in 1984. Still like contro layout on F without any stinking all look the same rocker switches. Current combine a 9500 is terrible if you had to get in and drive with no labeling. Yes you can set an F to get corn graded #1. Keep it loaded but not overloaded.

paul · Oct 27, 2016

My F had the bearings go out every year on the bell housing the clutch is in. What a pain. Dad actually had a machine shop turn the bell housing and fit timpkin bearings in it, thrn it lasted 18 months between shelling out. Don't know what was wrong, but it ate up those bearings. We got good at pulling the rim, pull the sheave, drop the bell housing, and pound the shaft out.

The F2 and F3 had a different design slightly.

The clutch itself was fine. But that bottom set of bearings and that bottom Vee belt man what a pain.

Paul

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