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pea_grower

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I've blown out the bearing on the sickle head on a Gleaner floating head for a F2 Gleaner. What came out was a double roller, but looks like the parts book may require 2 single roller bearings. And it appears to only have had one snap ring.

There is not a grease zerk in the sickle head to grease the bearings. I guess there is a chance that its not the right sickle head for this header, and could have come off of something else.

If I see the correct bearing in the old book, the 2 bearings are 1307332-5 and require 2 snap rings.

Do you guys use a double rolling bearing, or 2 single rollers for this? And what do I need to do?
 
Not an answer as to what you need to do, but SHOUPPS has that bearing assembly for a 300 series table if that's what you have ?? Ours is a 315 model
 
Was very common to fit an aftermarket Hart-Carter or Love or other brands of floating sickle onto a rigid head of that era.

Are you sure you have the right setup there, manual vs actual cutter?

Paul
 
Paul
Hope you can tell by my post, that I'm not sure of anything. It does have the left end-piece for the floating head with the wobble box, as opposed to a rigid head end-piece for a pitman drive. I do have a a floating bar from a (thought I've seen it somewhere as a king-kutter ,which I called a tigerjaw) head that has what looks like a a deeper sickle head-piece. I need to look closer at it.
Mark
 
F series Im not sure there was a factory floating head.

F3 they had from the factory.

F2 Im not sure about. When they started having a factory floating head.

My early short shoe F2 was an add on Love floating sickle. I think. It was cream colored braces.

My F had a Hart-Carter floating sickle. I think. It was black painted braces.

I hope,I dont have those reversed - its been a while.

Paul
 
Thanks Paul. Mine has the black braces also, and I'm assuming it's a Hart-Carter.

Dont know about when either, but my parts book, that has the "CUTTER BAR-FLOATING", says on the front, F2 Series, Prior to Serial No. 65001 and has Oct 1980, Revised Sept 1982
 

Series 3 heads I think were the first flex head for Gleaners. You'd need a 1982 F2 or 83+ F3 to use them directly without some kind of conversion kit.

I think the factory Series 2 heads for an F2 should use a wobble box and be Hart-Carter floating cutter bars. I also have a 13' older head that had what I think is a Love floating cutter bar with a pitman drive but how the pitman connects to the sickle doesn't match the parts book.

I have not looked on my Hart-Carter heads in the knife heads to see if they have a double bearing or two singles.
 
In case someone else needs it, the part number the dealer gave me for the double roller, sealed bearing in the knife head is 71358958.
 
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