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Posted: 30 Jun 2025 at 6:36pm |
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Getting ready to run some wheat with my N5 and I noticed while hooking up the header that the straw spreader and the sieve was rotating very slowly without the separator engaged, then I heard kind of a bang noise, separator will turn on with the switch fine, but did the same thing when I turned it on and off. Any ideas? Thanks!
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DrAllis
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Posted: 23 hours 14 minutes ago at 8:21pm |
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Sooooo, you've been faithfully greasing the separator clutch bearing once a week right ??? Or do you even know what I'm talking about ??
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Posted: 22 hours 50 minutes ago at 8:45pm |
 DrAllis wrote:
Sooooo, you've been faithfully greasing the separator clutch bearing once a week right ??? Or do you even know what I'm talking about ?? |
Yes I certainly do know where it’s at, weekly? No I don’t run that many acres and don’t put that many hours on it. But it does indeed get greased, hell it only takes me a day to run the wheat I have. That’s why I run a junky old N5 to start with. So you thinking the bearing is failing?
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Posted: 22 hours 40 minutes ago at 8:55pm |
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Gotta ask !!! Many second and third owners have not a clue about that bearing. If the separator is creeping on its own, the only way is something wrong in that clutch area.
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Posted: 22 hours 24 minutes ago at 9:11pm |
DrAllis wrote:
Gotta ask !!! Many second and third owners have not a clue about that bearing. If the separator is creeping on its own, the only way is something wrong in that clutch area. |
Gotcha, yeah have to tare in to it I guess, hopefully it can be fixed without spending what the whole machine is worth!
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darrel in ND
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Posted: 11 hours 7 minutes ago at 8:28am |
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Try unhooking the hydraulic hose running to the rotary coupler on the separator clutch shaft. Start it up. Do not engage the separator clutch, see if separator turns then, or if oil spurts out of the hose
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darrel in ND
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Posted: 11 hours 5 minutes ago at 8:30am |
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Clutch pins also could be so badly worn that they are causing a bind that won't let the clutch fully separate when disengaged
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