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Longmeadow Farm 07-28-2012 14:50:09 67.248.204.57 Report to Moderator	I own/use a New Idea 5209 MoCo. I installed a new hex shaft 3 years ago and everything is tight..no appreciable slop in the pods. I tear the pods down and grease them with EPO grease every other year.. as per the manual regarding number of acres cut. I have noticed that the second from the right POD gets rather hot while the rest of the pods are cool to moderately warm. The second pod in from the right takes the grass from the furtherest right hand pod and has to sling it back through the conditioning rolls along with it's own grass. The left side, which is the same is OK as I seldom take a full cut with the left hand pod. Do you suppose the high heat is attributable to the "extra work" or do I have something going wrong.. like the top pod bearing??? Thanks [Reply]   [No Email]
JMS/.MN 07-28-2012 19:59:32 209.237.107.155 Report to Moderator	Re: New Idea 5209 in reply to Longmeadow Farm, 07-28-2012 14:50:09   I bought one new, ran for 11 years. No heating issues, but I"d check the shims in that pod- is there less clearance between the gears, indicated by less gear lash? [Reply]  [No Email]
Longmeadow farm 07-29-2012 13:36:12 67.248.204.57 Report to Moderator	Re: New Idea 5209 in reply to JMS/.MN, 07-28-2012 19:59:32   Thanks for the tip. I checked my operators manual.. nothing in it regarding shims and lash. So I went to the AGCO site and ordered a shop manual for the 5209. However, I checked the machine and hot pod seems to have a little less lash than the adjacent pods. When I greased the pods this spring one pod was short a shim or two... maybe it was the one that is heating up. Some rainy day I'll pull it apart. It is now raining almost every day around here... after six weeks of extremely dry weather. Corn and soybeans seem to be recovering a bit along with the second growth hay ground. [Reply]  [No Email]
JDseller 07-28-2012 16:33:21 208.126.196.144 Report to Moderator	Re: New Idea 5209 in reply to Longmeadow Farm, 07-28-2012 14:50:09   It is common for these gear cases to run hot. I had a NI 5209. The gear cases would run so hot in real heavy hay that the paint would blister. It did it the first day I used it and lasted five years before I traded it off. [Reply]  [No Email]