Randy-IA.......415 oliver......

casey

The dealer thinks that the wear plates and caps for the inner shoe can be ordered . I hope they are still available . I'm leaning towards rebuilding this thing and selling it . I'm not going to paint it since I'm going to use it this year .

You called those guards JD guards . All the guards from the local stores ( and I've checked them all ) are plain green or blue and just have 700 ( green )or 800 ( blue ) cast in them on top . Are we talking the same guards ?

I worked on my 207 rake all day today , replaced one tine bar bearing and found four more that need replacing . Things get spendy quick when all I can afford is junk ;') $ 35 for each bearing . Found the reel hub needed replacing also . It'll hold for this year though . Went through it and replaced worn out nuts and bolts and fixed lamebrain lazy cobbled up repairs from the previous owner/s . It's amazing how $1.60 of machine bushings bought at the JD dealer tightened up all the tine bars and removed at least 13 fender washers and two pieces of threaded blackiron pipe spacers from between the bars and the shoulders of the bearings . I was amazed at how easy it was to change out a bearing . I've read in the archives that some rolabar rakes are a bear to change tine bar bearings . Other than driving in to work to use the hydraulic press it only took maybe 15-20 minutes since I've never done it before or even seen it done . That time included wire brushing everything clean too . Take care ....Randy