Got all my parts in from Shoups for my cutterbar rebuild.
Started tearing apart the cutterbar assy and the hold downs and guards were so misaligned across the width of the bar, I had to take knife
sections out, loosen or remove guards to keep the knife assembly from binding so I could pull it out. The ball joint that drives the cutterbar is in
great shape. The cutterbar, less sections looks pretty good too - as per the manual. I think the misalignment between the guard ledger surface
and knife sections was a combination of slightly bent/wore guards and wore and I'll adjusted hold downs. All of that will be renewed. I think I
can renew the knife bar with new sections and have a decent spare.
Question: Should the knife assembly easily slide out of the guards for replacement/service? The effort I had to make to remove the cutterbar
would be unacceptable if I were in the field - IMHO.
The half swaybar. Very simple mechanism - impressed with that design. There is a tad of slack in the linkages, probably need new bushings.
Doesn't look like a hard fix - will get to it over the winter or next spring - the morning before I cut.... ;-)
Noticed the hold down spring on reel belt tension pulley is broken. Need to fix that.
Started the tractor with the knife removed, running at idle and you can hear some slap in the half swaybar drive. No where near as noisy with
the knife assy removed, but running at idle.
Question: is your half sway bar assembly dead tight/snug or is there a touch of slack?
When I'm speaking of the 1110, the 1120 is essentially identical, except for 2 more feet in width.
Thanks!
Bill
Started tearing apart the cutterbar assy and the hold downs and guards were so misaligned across the width of the bar, I had to take knife
sections out, loosen or remove guards to keep the knife assembly from binding so I could pull it out. The ball joint that drives the cutterbar is in
great shape. The cutterbar, less sections looks pretty good too - as per the manual. I think the misalignment between the guard ledger surface
and knife sections was a combination of slightly bent/wore guards and wore and I'll adjusted hold downs. All of that will be renewed. I think I
can renew the knife bar with new sections and have a decent spare.
Question: Should the knife assembly easily slide out of the guards for replacement/service? The effort I had to make to remove the cutterbar
would be unacceptable if I were in the field - IMHO.
The half swaybar. Very simple mechanism - impressed with that design. There is a tad of slack in the linkages, probably need new bushings.
Doesn't look like a hard fix - will get to it over the winter or next spring - the morning before I cut.... ;-)
Noticed the hold down spring on reel belt tension pulley is broken. Need to fix that.
Started the tractor with the knife removed, running at idle and you can hear some slap in the half swaybar drive. No where near as noisy with
the knife assy removed, but running at idle.
Question: is your half sway bar assembly dead tight/snug or is there a touch of slack?
When I'm speaking of the 1110, the 1120 is essentially identical, except for 2 more feet in width.
Thanks!
Bill