I was half asleep when I put this post on so I messed up in the reply, sorry. The beaters drive off the big sprocket on the left side and to throw out of gear the front sprocket that is connected to the lever is raised and to put it in gear it is lowered. If you put it around the guides wrong it cannot lift the chain off the large sprocket on the axle. The chain that I said stays tight all the time is on the right side and drives the web. That long left side chain depending on the model of the spreader will determine how many guides-tighteners it passes thru. And any of them that the chain misses will make that problem. You might be able to if you look close seewhere it had rubbed on things to tell if you put it on the correct side of the guides. Different model spreaders will be slightly different in that but all are simular. My parts books are all out in the truck right now and I cannot remember off the topof my head the exact pattern. I do have several spreaders setting here I can look at later. I was getting John Deere and new Idea mixed up as Deere drives the beaters different.
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