Claas Senator - freeing up a blockage

[Cowcorn]

Here you go @Exfarmer @Cowabunga a little trip down memory lane for you........
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1976 ish?(I think it was R reg) MF 525 12' cut. Eat you heart out all you Lexion boys - you don't know you are born

Looking at that photo on a wet miserable evening gives a warm nostaglic feeling thinking back everything seemed simpler weather was better and we were definitely younger. Any more photos from the era ?

 

[yellowbelly]

Looking at that photo on a wet miserable evening gives a warm nostaglic feeling thinking back everything seemed simpler weather was better and we were definitely younger. Any more photos from the era ?

One or two . Have a look here...........
https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index...-j-d-tractor-pics-from-the-70s-and-80s.98652/

 

[New Puritan]

Right, back to the clapped out Senator. Does anyone know what the correct name or ideally part number is for the pair of belts that drive the header? As per the expertly drawn-in diagram below:

There ought to be 2 but there is only one, and it doesn't look all that healthy. I thought whilst the machine is laid up I might as well sort that out too.

Having taken the front wheel off to replace a tyre, the guard behind the wheel was a bit bashed around from when I drove it into the shed with a flat / split tyre, and I am hoping it was that (as well as the original but now cleared drum blockage), that was stopping the mechanism from engaging properly. It's pulled out okay and doesn't rub any more, but I'm not willing to fire it up whilst it's sitting on a jack, so I'll wait until I've got the new tyre on to try it.

The new tyre has been lost in the post, surprisingly for such a large item. I am managing to draw the end of my harvest out as far as possible, which, to be honest, is driving me mad.

 

[bobk]

610830.0

 

[New Puritan]

Result! Thanks @bobk - assuming that's a Claas part number and not some random numbers.

 

[bobk]

I threw 4 away .

 

[Andy26]

Right, back to the clapped out Senator. Does anyone know what the correct name or ideally part number is for the pair of belts that drive the header? As per the expertly drawn-in diagram below:

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There ought to be 2 but there is only one, and it doesn't look all that healthy. I thought whilst the machine is laid up I might as well sort that out too.

Having taken the front wheel off to replace a tyre, the guard behind the wheel was a bit bashed around from when I drove it into the shed with a flat / split tyre, and I am hoping it was that (as well as the original but now cleared drum blockage), that was stopping the mechanism from engaging properly. It's pulled out okay and doesn't rub any more, but I'm not willing to fire it up whilst it's sitting on a jack, so I'll wait until I've got the new tyre on to try it.

The new tyre has been lost in the post, surprisingly for such a large item. I am managing to draw the end of my harvest out as far as possible, which, to be honest, is driving me mad.

https://www.bearing-supplies.co.uk/agrimanual.pdf

Page 9.

 

[New Puritan]

I threw 4 away .

Marvellous! I'm hoping I'll be in a position to throw one away in a couple of days' time. Do you memorise the part numbers of everything you throw out?

 

[Andy26]

https://www.bearing-king.co.uk/bearing/hc610830/12538

 

[bobk]

Might be wrong number @Andy26 found the right one

https://shop.marksman-ind.com/claas-629836-equivalent-belt-6901-p.asp

 

[New Puritan]

Thanks guys, as I have said before, this forum is so useful to someone new to farming. I need to check what model of Senator it is before buying the belts, I think it's a 70 but I might be wrong. The user manual I have for it is for a Mercator, in case the picture above confused anyone.

 

[bobk]

The drive belts are all the same , I've found 2 in the shed .

 

[New Puritan]

@bobk - $$$ - if you want rid of them?

 

[Exfarmer]

@bobk - $$$ - if you want rid of them?

Dont get excited, first rule of negotiation, he has one buyer

 

[bobk]

May as well buy new ones , they're only 20 squid a piece .

 

[New Puritan]

Fair enough @bobk . I have ordered some from Bearing King - thanks everyone for your continued help and suggestions with this particular endeavour.

 

[Selectamatic]

Fair enough @bobk . I have ordered some from Bearing King - thanks everyone for your continued help and suggestions with this particular endeavour.

I would have arrived by now...

 

[Gapples]

I might still have my training/repair manual for a Senator 85, it was one of the first manufacturers training courses I did at Newbridge, Edinburgh when it first opened.

 

[New Puritan]

I would have arrived by now...

I wish you bloody had! I might have even upped the offer to one and a half pints.

 

[Selectamatic]

I wish you bloody had! I might have even upped the offer to one and a half pints.

Im on my way!!

Check my progress on Sally Traffic, BBC Radio 2...