[AT] John Hall's JD 3300

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

My 55 is a lot better built and simpler. We'll soon see which is a better 
machine. We loved the 6620 we had before we downsized.

No real parts issues. I have been buying all my belts from AGKITS.com, they 
sell Q-power belts (tons of places on the internet sell these). They are 
1/2 -2/3 the price that Deere wants. I bought all the pulleys and bearings 
from Deere, no real cost savings to go anywhere else. I had to have a short 
tailings auger that I got from A&I for about half what Deere wanted. I used 
it but it is not case-hardened in the bearing area, I had to re-machine the 
welded thrust washer, and the auger itself is a finer pitch than the 
original--I am not impressed, but I will soon need the combine and don't 
have time to wait or make one myself.  Some of the parts I rebuilt would 
cost a fortune since they were castings, and yes they were available. The 
only thing I could not get were brake seals for the transmission. Deere 
found a set at a dealer but I just opted to get them from NAPA. When they 
came in they were wrong. I ordered them from another parts house, they were 
wrong again. When I cross referenced them to Timken, I got the same results. 
Obviously Deere supplied the wrong info to the seal industry--that is 
probably why Deere discontinued them, they can't get them their selves and 
are too lazy to go back to the original drawings. Anyway, I got the number 
off one of the old seals and had new ones the next day.

So far, I think we only found one item that was discontinued and we worked 
around that.

John


-----Original Message----- 
From: Al Jones
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 10:38 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: [AT] John Hall's JD 3300

John,

The guy that does our harvesting went from a 3300 (not used on our farm) to 
a 6600,to a 6620 and a 7700, and he got a big-time 9500 last year.  Anyway. 
In watching/holding tools for him while working on the 6600, I would 
definately agree with you.  In general Deere combines up until '88/89 are a 
poor design in a lot of areas that makes them hard to work on.  But around 
here they were green and yellow so they had to be good.....

Have you had any parts availability issues yet?

Al


-----Original Message-----
>From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
>Sent: Oct 20, 2012 8:46 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] test
>
>Still here Mike. Haven't seen any messages all week, I guess everyone is
>outside enjoying this nice fall weather.
>
>We've been turning wrenches on my 3300 Deere combine for over a month. 
>Still
>a ways to go yet to get it field ready. I've put in 11 bearings, 5 idler
>pulleys, 3 bearing blocks, 9 or 10 belts, one auger, 4 seals, 4 headlights,
>2 hydraulic hoses, repaired a bunch of wiring harness, and re-machined  3
>pivots for idlers that were beyond worn out. We are getting close to taking
>it for a test drive so I can check the brakes out ( pulled them apart to
>clean them and change the bearings, balls and springs). I still need to put
>a kit in the carb and then turn my attention to the header. Also going to
>install a battery disconnect switch---there are just way too many (old)
>wires on this machine for my liking. One thing I have discovered on this
>machine is that it appears the quality of farm equipment went down the 
>tubes
>just like automobiles during the 1970's. This machine is a mixture of
>english and metric sizes, poor design, and even poor factory support (found
>a few errors in the parts books).
>
>John Hall
>
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Mike Meulenberg
>Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 8:13 PM
>To: at
>Subject: [AT] test
>
>Anyone home?
>
>Mike
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