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strange - kicked me off for 'spamming' oh well. shourd have been "war stories" Seeing the picture of the E posted here reminded me of the time MANY years ago a customer kept calling telling he could not keep corn in his E III. I suggested several things to check but none worked. Customer traveled to different farmers, again no success. He came to see me and said he could only keep corn in the E in road gear. I knew something was amiss and was curious by now and told him I would be out later that day. I drove up on the farm he was shelling in and heard a Piper Cub coming in for a landing, or thats what it sounded like. (Did I mention the customer was almost totally deaf?) Anyway the E came around the corner of the field and turned back into the corn row with the two row header. I was 10 yards away and was pelted by cobs and corn thrown by the single spreader which I could hear making a low humming sound due to high speed. I finally got the fellow stopped - nearly beat me since less er trying to pass the combine on foot and getting his attention. The mighty E was WAY overrevving. I noticed the gathering chains were about a foot outside the header due to centrifical force. The combine dieseled for a half minute and finally died. Customer came out of the cab and yelled "somethings wrong here" . I agreed and proceeded to examine the combine. The wooden raddle was in shambles, don't know how it was running as about every other slat was broke, the straw walker blocks were literally smoking. I climbed up on the engine and found the problem. He had cleaned out the carb and when reinstalling it had swapped the choke and throttle cable. He was running the unit at wide open throttle! Evidently he had been for a day or so. No oil was in the crankcase and the engine had siezed. Bless his heart, he could not hear the problem at all. He did set what I would say is a record for corn harvest during the time of WOT running though! The destroyed EIII sat in the spot for years as he just farmed around it. A monument to the little E that almost flew.
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