Great Plains Swath Command Section Control - Manual (Page 15)

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. Table of Contents Index Install Air Clutches 11
2012-08-23 Table of Contents Index 402-382M
Install Center Air Clutches
44. Consult the layout drawing for your kit (found in
pages 48 through page 97).
45. Note which types of clutch assemblies are supplied
in your kit (there are six different total assemblies,
and as many as four combinations per kit). Find the
detailed assembly drawing and instructions for each
in the Appendix, found on pages listed at right.
46. Working from left to right, install the specified
components ahead of, at and in between each row.
see the checklist at right for items to watch out for
during row installation.
Align Center Shaft
When the right-most row clutch has been installed, and
any final lock collar or roll pin installed, make final shaft
adjustments.
47. Check that all bearing flangettes are slightly loose.
Working from left to right:
48. Push the line shaft fully into the hex cut in a locator
tool.
49. Tighten flangette nuts on bearings immediately left
and right of the locator tool.
50. Repeat step 48 and step 49 for the remaining tools.
At the left end of the center section:
51. Being careful to not disturb the shaft position,
tighten the flangette nuts of the left end row.
At the right end of the center section:
52. Being careful to not disturb the shaft position,
tighten the flangette nuts of the right end row.
Working from left to right:
53. Being careful to not disturb the shaft position,
tighten the flangette nuts at each row.
At the left end of the shaft:
54. Adjust the left-right position of the shaft to match the
measurement taken at step 30.
Working from left to right:
55. Slide each lock collar into gentle contact with the
associated bearing shown in the layout drawing.
Secure the set screws.
56. Adjust the line shaft input sprocket so that the chain
is vertical. Secure the sprocket set screws.
57. Re-engage meter drive chain idlers. See special
instructions at right for twin-row chains.
58. Remove the locator tools. This completes the center
section clutch installation.
Clutch Assembly Installation Details
402-273K-ASY: page 37 402-279K-ASY: page 43
402-275K-ASY: page 39 402-281K-ASY: page 45
402-276K-ASY: page 41 402-329K-ASY: page 47
Row Item Checklist
• Route shaft through locator tools as encountered.
• Add lock collar left of clutch where specified.
• Install roll pins as marked on shaft.
• Loop meter chain(s) when installing clutch.
• Add lock collar right of clutch where specified.
• Add shaft input sprocket when chain encountered.
Be sure to re-install any lock collars as recorded at
step 32.
• Do not tighten any collar or sprocket set screws
during row installation.
• Do not remove any chain slack during row
installation.
Twin Row Chain Alignment
If the planter is only ever used:
• with Singulator Plus™ (green wheel) meters, or
• at seed spacings below 6
1 ⁄
2
inches (16.5 cm), or
• with Air-Pro
®
seed discs having more than 24
pockets,
then skip this alignment.
If no deliberate sprocket indexing was noted at step 34,
re-engage meter chains with both meter sprockets in
the same tooth orientation (for example, with both
sprockets having tooth 1 at top dead center).
Otherwise, engage the chain for the front meter as
noted at step 34, and engage or adjust the chain for the
rear meter as noted.
Engage both idlers. Recheck the tooth number
relationship.