Posted by Fixerupper on June 01, 2012 at 18:13:40 from (100.42.82.164):
In Reply to: IH 56 Planter Skips posted by Jeff Wenner on May 31, 2012 at 19:28:19:
Do any of you guys know if the clutch on a 56 is the same as the clutch on a 58? When I had a 58 six row, the clutch 'facings' if you want to call it that, wore slanted so the two clutch halves would slowly separate and then sit there and chatter a while before it slipped back in, making a six row gap that was all the way from 1 foot to six feet long. Without a monitor it was very hard to detect from the tractor seat. If I remember right, I could remove the clutch spring cotter pin, slide the two halves apart and get up there with an angle grider and grind the faces to a 90 degree angle again. It's been a little over 20 years ago so my memory might be foggy about the face grinding part of it.
You guys are right about the bevel gears. They are running in dust and grit all the time so they wear pretty fast. Shimming them helps but eventually they get so cupped they start jerking.
I always checked the seed in the plate even though it was supposed to be the right plate for the chart on the bag. A plate that's just a twitch too thin can cause skips, along with a plate with too small of a cell, or too large of a cell where two seeds can wedge together.
I ran that 58 for 16 years at about 500 acres per year and made about every stupid mistake a person can make, but we learn from our mistakes (hopefully LOL).Jim
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