MacDon D60 Draper Headers - Manual (Page 146)

SECTION 9. TROUBLESHOOTING
* See your MacDon dealer.
** Refer to Windrower Operator’s Manual.
*** Refer to Windrower Technical Service Manual.
Form 169441 144 Revision B
SYMPTOM PROBLEM SOLUTION SECTION
Ragged Or Uneven Cutting
Of Crop (Continued).
Loose sickle drive belt. Adjust drive belt tension.
8.7.8 &
8.7.9
Sickle Plugging.
Reel too high or too far forward.
Lower reel or move reel
rearward. 7.12.8 &
7.12.9
Ground speed too slow. Increase ground speed. 7.12.5
Loose sickle drive belt. Adjust drive belt tension.
8.7.8 &
8.7.9
Improper sickle hold-down
adjustment.
Adjust hold-down. 8.7.7
Dull or broken sickle sections. Replace sickle section. 8.7.1
Bent or broken guards. Align or replace guards. 8.7.6
Reel fingers not lifting crop
properly ahead of sickle. Adjust reel position / finger
pitch. 7.12.9 &
7.12.10
Steel pick-up fingers contacting
sickle. Increase reel clearance to
cutterbar, or adjust "frown". 8.9.1 &
8.9.2
Float too heavy.
Adjust springs for lighter
float.
7.12.2
Mud or dirt build-up on
cutterbar.
Raise cutterbar by lowering
skid shoes.
7.12.1.2
Install cut-out sections. *
Flatten header angle. 7.12.3
Sickle is not operating at
recommended speed. Check engine speed of
windrower.
**
Excessive Header Vibration.
Sickle hold-downs not adjusted
properly.
Adjust hold-downs. 8.7.7
Sickles on double knife drive
not timed.
Adjust sickle timing. 8.7.9.3
Sickle not operating at
recommended speed. Check engine speed of
windrower.
**
Excessive sickle wear. Replace sickle.
8.7.2 &
8.7.4
Loose or worn sickle head pin
or drive arm.
Tighten or replace parts.
8.7.3 &
8.7.10
Bent cutterbar. Straighten cutterbar. *
Sickle Back Breakage.
Bent or broken guard. Straighten or replace. 8.7.6
Worn sickle head pin. Replace. 8.7.3
Dull sickle. Replace.
8.7.2 &
8.7.4