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Okay I'm at a loss as to what to do next. We are working on a 9650sts that the bearing went out of the cleaning shoe drive shaft. The left side bearing went out behind the eccentric/cam bearings. We replaced it; we took off the two cam bearings, removed and replaced the shaft bearing and put the cams back on how we believed they came off (snap ring side of cams facing each other). We did all this with the belt off, but we didn't roll the shoe to re align the shaker arms into the center of the window they moved back and forth in.
Short while later the big shaker arm on the right side broke, shoe lurched forward and wrecked the cleaning fan, but no damage to shoe. Removed shoe, fixed fan, installed new shaker arm, put shoe back in and loosened bolts that all shaker arms are attached to as per our Dealers instructions so that there would be no tension on the arms so they'd align to center of the windows after rolling the shoe by hand a few times.
Well no such luck. Arms will not align to center of windows, Dealer is scratching his head and for good reason would like to put a set of eyeballs on the machine to see if he can spot the issue. Not against this just waiting for parts on another project to come in before he schedules a visit so we have one service call instead of two.
Asking to see if anyone has any ideas that I can look/try out before service tech comes out next week. My only other thought is to remove the cam sets from both sides and see if the shoe would align that way, but not sure that'll help seeing as both sides the arms attached to the cams are in same spots. I figure if one side was messed up then the arms would be in different locations from side to side, maybe so maybe not? Watching the shoe move inside the machine everything looks to be moving in sync but again its only at hand speed not field idle or higher.
Short while later the big shaker arm on the right side broke, shoe lurched forward and wrecked the cleaning fan, but no damage to shoe. Removed shoe, fixed fan, installed new shaker arm, put shoe back in and loosened bolts that all shaker arms are attached to as per our Dealers instructions so that there would be no tension on the arms so they'd align to center of the windows after rolling the shoe by hand a few times.
Well no such luck. Arms will not align to center of windows, Dealer is scratching his head and for good reason would like to put a set of eyeballs on the machine to see if he can spot the issue. Not against this just waiting for parts on another project to come in before he schedules a visit so we have one service call instead of two.
Asking to see if anyone has any ideas that I can look/try out before service tech comes out next week. My only other thought is to remove the cam sets from both sides and see if the shoe would align that way, but not sure that'll help seeing as both sides the arms attached to the cams are in same spots. I figure if one side was messed up then the arms would be in different locations from side to side, maybe so maybe not? Watching the shoe move inside the machine everything looks to be moving in sync but again its only at hand speed not field idle or higher.