[ERICKS]

What are the new updates for 2015 ,i have a s77 bought new and have had lots of problems, all updates from last year, chopper, gear box sensor,elevator bolts,heavy stop sign, broken universal drive for chopper, had trouble with chopper knives wear uneven, belt jumping when engage cylinder for chopper, bearings, monitor screen letters are jumbled(they have not found fix), hope for better luck next year. To much advertizing light weight, need stronger drives and beef???thanks for the help

 

[redline73]

what specific gear box sensor are you referring to? That sounds like a plethora of problems. Im sorry but this doesnt pass the smell test.

As far as updates, I think the updates that come out are exclusive to S8 machines. I couldnt be wrong though since I own an 9 year old R65.

 

[matt708]

Gear box sensor for rotor drive gear box, i think for oil level. Our dealer was talking about fitting one to our 77.
Not sure the smell test is needed here, I am pretty dissapointed in ours too. I think with all the updates and sorting out it may be okay now.

 

[lostcause]

as the less than proud owner of a s78 I can believe it probably has some issues. not here to wish anyone bad luck but its kind of a relief that I don't have the only one that has problems. with any new piece of equipment one should expect to have some bugs to work out but they should be with in reason not excess!

 

[redline73]

Well in light of owners having all these issues, I retract what I said. I dont delete posts.

These threads make me want to hang onto my 5 series for even longer.

 

[lostcause]

I kind of wish I had mine back except the s has less rotor loss than my r had. not sure if it is enough too justify the hole in my pocket.

 

[greencountry]

Ericks your not alone with these problems. I own a 66 yet but every other day in harvest someone was commenting about the problems that you have had. Our 66 had enough capacity problems and can't image how much more magnified it would be by putting more capacity with the s series to this 20 yr old design. I have said it for years, gleaner needs to quit bragging about their light weight machine and beef this thing up. You can not put a 30" cylinder in place of a 25" rotor with the same gearbox, mounting hardware and discharge. I think the 5 series was max for this design. I still like my gleaner but man I wish for some design changes. I know I will again get bashed by the silver panties but improvement is about due.

 

[khigerd]

You can not put a 30" cylinder in place
of a 25" rotor with the same gearbox, mounting hardware and discharge.

I'm going to keep beating this dead horse....Someone please tell me if they had a gearbox fail on a S series that was not due to loss of oil. There are very very few if any.

The new gearbox was for the S8's because of the increased horsepower in that series, not in the S7's.

 

[bighopper]

I had gearbox fail, but what came first. bearing fails seal goes out the small amount of oil is gone in short time and then everything seizes up. For the slow speeds we run in corn I shouldn't have to check the oil level in gearbox all the time. It was a preseason check years ago and we never had problems. I 100% agree with guys wanting more beef in machines as well as not being afraid to make it bigger in areas for more capacity. I appreciate agco not making it a abrams tank but man i'd sooner have the weight and not have breakdowns, or just for increased capacity.

 

[khigerd]

I had gearbox fail, but what came first. bearing fails seal goes out the small amount of oil is gone in short time and then everything seizes up. For the slow speeds we run in corn I shouldn't have to check the oil level in gearbox all the time. It was a preseason check years ago and we never had problems. I 100% agree with guys wanting more beef in machines as well as not being afraid to make it bigger in areas for more capacity. I appreciate agco not making it a abrams tank but man i'd sooner have the weight and not have breakdowns, or just for increased capacity.

What year is your combine? Hard to tell which failed first, the bearing or the seal. From what I understand, the early S series had seal problems. Once the oil leaked out, the bearing would obviously fail.

 

[glennw]

What year is your combine? Hard to tell which failed first, the bearing or the seal. From what I understand, the early S series had seal problems. Once the oil leaked out, the bearing would obviously fail.

Ours is a 2012 that had bad looking oil when draining during overhaul but plenty of oil. Found the input shaft had slop to it so it was taken apart and rebuilt and dealer was wondering if there was enough preload on the bearing. At least we caught it before complete failure.

 

[bighopper]

Mine is a 2012 that is almost always getting worked on. For the hours we have on it it always has something failing. most thingsare just nuisances of bolts breaking or tinny brackets or rivets that break. the gearbox went out last fall, found out of others with s series that went to checking oil daily after mine went out, with a few that caught it by luck before failure. 1 guy said he checked it in morning ,oil level was fine, went to oil unloader chain at later that day noticed oil leaking and fortunately caught it in time.

 

[lmtman]

In answer to your question, there are a few updates for the MY2015 over the 7 series. T4F engines, heavier rotor gearbox, perforated cascade pan, increased clean grain elevator capacity, spreader moved rearward 2", among other things. These updates can be found on YouTube.

2015 updates:

2014 updates: