In Reply to: Re: NDDan posted by brassring on July 21, 2010 at 17:14:27:
Removing the hump isn't the most key thing but still like it removed. If the 62 floor they use is the flattened one from a 65 they should be fine narrowing it. Do they tilt down the front of rear floor when they do the job? Tilting it down the approx 1" is OK and is the way factory is doing it. I stopped instructing the guys to do this for it was easier to reinstall the flatened floor in original position. Tilting it down gave more room if staying with the 8" drum. When we stay with the 8" drum and don't tilt the floor when we do it we will often times modify drum block to allow higher maximum height. Now for big key to floor mod and what we changed when we stopped tilting down front of rear floor. We found out the '92 and earlier machines had a front feed floor that dropped off the straw 2" sooner than '93 and newer machines. When we found that out we did a bunch of rethinking to get same results as previous kits. What we came up with is shorten the front floor back to what it was on earlier machines plus and inch (total 3"). When we do this we tilt it down 1/2". This allowed us to leave flatten rear floor in original location and still allow straw to make nice transition between the chains. A couple other things they would find out in the feeder floor instructions is to smoothen sharp corners on both left and right side of front feed toward the rear (we weld in filler plates to eleminate the sharp corners). The sharp corners will stall the straw that is sliding against the sides of feeder. Another trick to make sure the makes a nice transition and gets under the rear chain is to weld about 4 kickers onto rear feed tention drum. These can be 1" tall angle iron if you have the newer tention drum with W-ring and the flat feeder slat (not old teardrop style). Beater iron would need to fit between slat and drum so as it doesn't bumb against slat when they line up. Posi-feed drums do a similar trick. Good luck