Gleaner F Info

[Ferguson Farmer]

I’m looking at a gleaner F. Chevy inline 6 engine. Comes with a 4 row corn head. The insides/threshing components seem to be solid. It needs some loving but it’s not the worst. Anything in particular to look for? How much fuel will it use per hour?

 

[the tractior vet]

I’m looking at a gleaner F. Chevy inline 6 engine. Comes with a 4 row corn head. The insides/threshing components seem to be solid. It needs some loving but it’s not the worst. Anything in particular to look for? How much fuel will it use per hour?

That one runs a 292 GM 6 . Now as to fuel lets put it this way it sure is no Toyota and with gas prices depending on where your at it will show you how fast your wallet gets skinnier . In good corn pushing it five to six gallon and hour is a guesstament . Way back when still picking corn with a New idea super picker with a 12 roll bed on a spiced up Farmall M picking in second gear 20 gallon gave you four hours of run time . My Massey 300 combine with a two row 38 corn head would DRINK around 40-45 gallon in a long day usually starting around 9-9:30 in the morning and running into the night filling every truck we could get and every gravity box we could scrounge up and stop around 10-10:30 at night once everything was full . That one ran a 225 Chrysler slant six . My Massey 410 ran the same engine as the F and we went thru around sixty gallons in a long day..

 

[Keith Williams]

I’m looking at a gleaner F. Chevy inline 6 engine. Comes with a 4 row corn head. The insides/threshing components seem to be solid. It needs some loving but it’s not the worst. Anything in particular to look for? How much fuel will it use per hour?

I had a K - KKS K corn and soybean special, it had extra screens to get a cleaner sample.
For Corn it needs the large (20") pully and belt.
The main shaft bearings are the hardest to change they are deep in on those shafts.
Most of the other bearings are pretty easy to change.
Get a parts manual and look over the bearings used. Many are a common 7/8", 1", 1 1/4".
Look over the belts, Many are variable speed and have a variable width pully on one end or the other. If the belt is too worn, you run out of adjustment range.
Check the rasp bars for ware, they have groves that thresh the grain. You can reverse them to get additional life.
For corn it helps to have filler plates between the bars.
Check the rattle chain for missing or broken cross slats.
Check the clean grain cross auger under the machine for pin holes or complete ware thru.
Spin the unloading auger to make sure it is not bent.
Check the fingers on the feed. The guides ware and the fingers get bent.
If you can run it, run the machine at speed and look at each chain and look for a vibration or a pulse. The indicates a bearing is going bad on one of the shafts. Same with belts.

I stocked an assortment of bearings and parts that were common and had good luck being able to run at night while I had a day job.
It cost a couple hundred to have an inventory, but it saved me a lot of extended down time.

That is some of the stuff.
HTH
Keith