raddle repair on gleaner 3

I've never replaced one myself. but thinking it over, I think there will be just room for one person. I think you'll hafta work on taking it apart and back together from the underside. that means you'll hafta lay on your back up in there. take a piece of plywood to lay over the sieves (a piece of carpet over that won't hurt either). you'll need to clean out as much stuff inside as you can, plus possibly squirt some water inside to settle any dust. everytime you smack the chain with a hammer you'll be breathing grain/dirt dust! will need sum wire to hold the chain together as you pound the chain together with a hammer. have a piece of plywood inside (about 6x6 inches) to put between the chain and inside tin of the combine. you could prolly do this on top of the pan, but it would be a one handed operation thru the window on the side. to get them apart, prolly can grind off a rivet with an angle grinder on top. again you'll want water to spray in there for any fires you may start. if you are a little fat like I am, you may hafta take the straw walkers out too. that's not a real bad job, just time consuming. and make sure you replace those wood blocks back in the same place where you took them out so they match the wear. and as Tbran says, check for other wear. good luck! (you might even manufacture sum new words)!   

I got into it today . It looks like I have 3 or 4 broken slats and a broken chain. One side of the chain has an old break and the other is fresh so the chances are it cracked or broken  at other spots as well.  It's not a normal chain  I looked on the net and can't find a chain like that.  I will call in the morning and see what kind of parts are around. If I   I go with K parts  is that a different chain?  Does anyone know if they sell the whole rattle  or do you need to put it together your self?  If you know where I should look (combine scrap yard) for these parts please give me a heads up. What is something like that worth. 

I don't remember the # of the chain size. check with shoup , and some farm stores still sell flat chain. may hafta save the links that the bars attach to tho. let OB check his stash first!  it would be alot of work, but you could take a wider one from another combine, cut the steel slats down and reweld to the width needed. I think they all had the same size chain in them of that age. would hafta put a piece of steel inside the slats for strength when re-welding them back together.

all my Gleaners had square link flat chain with the links that had the ear that the slates was riveted to. kinda like a chit spreader! 

Bill - Manchester Manufacturing link.   Read last paragraph:

http://www.manchestermfg.com/hillside.html

I have some NOS wooden slats but don't think I have any chain parts.   I bought a NOS Z-bar raddle chain set for a K off eBay cheap about 5 years ago but it's roller chain not Ag chain so if I ever install it in my EIII I need to change out all the sprockets.   It was like $400 for new sprockets from AGCO back then, no idea if they still carry them or how much.   I see Manchester also sells the newer drive and idler sprockets though as a whole kit with the raddle chain.   Mike

wjkrostek wrote: I don't know how you do it Mike but you sure can find stuff on the net.  I called them and they say they can fix me up with new raddle for $400 bucks .  new chain and steel slats with new sprockets and idlers.  Only thing is they don't know about shipping.  They will get back to me.  Lets hope they can put it in the mail.  Thanks to all of you for your input.

****This is the only one I could find and and that should be for an older 60 series.    Sorry...Dale

William....do you go to the "mocha Moose Café" there?

I turns easy.  I had to take it back out and laid it side by side but I didn't have the old sprockets as I destroyed them getting them out.  They must be bigger as the chain rides on the sprocket.   Not much room to work in there.  Now that I've done it If I have to do it again it will be a lot easier.  what did you do to get the roll pins back in?  

I didn't take the walkers out so you know the problems I had.  Only way I could get the pins in was to use an air hammer and it worked well.  there is just no room.  I cut the sprockets out with a torch.  They where so frozen on the shaft there was no way to get them off while still in the combine. Did yours sprockets slide off the shaft?  Maybe mine was worse than normal.  I wish I knew how to use a camera and had a helper.  This would be a good thing to put on utube (?) so others could learn form our experience. Thanks for your input. I'll find out next year if it worked.