John Deere Spindle Drive Shaft Parts

Maintenance and Cleaning

One of the most hardworking parts of your cotton harvester is the picking unit, including the spindle drive shaft and its bearings. Proper setup and inspection ensure that you will get the longest life from additional components such as spindles and doffers. Your cotton picker must be cleaned and maintained according to the operator’s manual. This will ensure that you enjoy reduced downtime, improved productivity, and reduced risk of fire.

Due to the constant contact with fibrous plant material, dirt, and other debris, broken, missing, or worn parts are generally discovered during your regular inspections which help to avoid downtime when you need your equipment operating at full capacity. Our top Drive Gears are machined, closely sized, and heat treated using high quality solid steel that will outperform powdered metal gears, and give you the correct back lash and durability you need.

The spindle drive shaft undergoes its fair share of abuse during harvesting and the operator’s manual covers the regular maintenance items such as daily cleaning and inspection when in harvest configuration, which will potentially save you a lot of money. Our Drive shafts are manufactured from top quality to-size precision ground material that will provide a press fit for our top gears and correct clearances for the spindle drive gears. This sizing will eliminate the problems of roll pins prematurely shearing off causing unnecessary downtime, machine failure, and loss of revenue.

Correct daily adequate greasing as well as checking the clearances will help you maintain smooth operation of the needle bearings, and identify a problem before it can potentially cause a costly failure or in the case of seized bearings or broken roll pins, further damage inside the machinery. Should you require assistance, we are just a phone call away.

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