Re: Pics of our 2 8820's sitting/working/before&af
Quote:whoa they do look very different. so basically you had to change every bearing from feeder house to chopper?
Well not quite everyone but I couldn't begin to tell you what we did. Some things were obvious, some things didn't last long, and some things surprised us all of a sudden. Some things on the larger side that we replaced--- both drive tires. The one we put on to get it home was cracked bad. It was a Goodyear which were bad about cracking in the sidewalls. Now it's got a Firestone in its place. The other side, well, I was thrashing beans that first fall we had it and the thing went flat on me and I didn't know it was going flat. It was a slow leak. I got a full bin and drove to the front of the field and unloaded. That's when I noticed that it was leaning a little bit. It broke down the sidewall driving it low with the combine loaded. When we changed it out, the guy that took it off pulled the tube out and the tube was a 24.5 X 32 instead of a 30.5 X 32. Some idiot put the wrong tube in it. Accident? On purpose? Who knows? It has an Armstrong on that side now.
Other larger items are the augers. EVERY auger has been replace except for the two cross augers in the tank. EVERYONE. Shoe, unloading, upright, upper and lower tailings, clean grain.
Another thing. The rear hood has been replaced with one from the salvage yard. The original had a hole in it that you could stick your whole arm through it on the left hand side, right before the word JOHN. You can see it in the photos. The whole top was just rotten. The one we put on was one off of an older combine. That's why the decal on it is a little different than the one on my granddad's machine. The color is just a shade lighter. So when it's cleaned up, in the sunlight, you can see the difference.
Another thing. We did not paint the combine. Only parts that were bad. Shields, fuel tank, clean grain elevator, rims, chopper tail board and whole rear where the deere sign and SMV sign are located. The rest was brought back to life with about 3 or 4 waxings. One right after the other. That was a job in itself.
Those are just some things that we have done. Still working on things to this day. It needs a feederhouse chain, augers in the tank, chains in both elevators. To name a few things still in the works.