Tapered Bushing Reduces Wear On Gauge Wheel Arms

Tapered Bushing Reduces Wear On Gauge Wheel Arms PLANTERS Planters 19-5-12 If the gauge wheels on your Deere or Kinze planter have worn arms and pivot pins, you can make the arms "better than new" by having the straight or eccentric bushings replaced with new tapered bushings and you won't ever have to replace the worn pins, says Luecke Enterprises, Hays, Kan. The greasable, tapered bushings are made from a graphite-impregnated composite material that reduces wear even though they have more surface area than the original bushing, says Bill Luecke. "On older Deere and Kinze planters, the surface area of the bushings is so small that the bushing wears out fast and also causes wear on the pivot pin. Another advantage is that our tapered bushing bridges the worn part of the pivot pin so that you can continue to use badly worn pivot pins. The Deere pivot pin isn't replaceable so if the arm wears out you have to buy an entire new unit. "We've used these tapered bushings on our own Deere 7000 for the past two years, planting 1,500 acres a year, and we haven't had to replace a single one yet. Normally, the farmer sends us his worn-out gauge wheel arms and we rebuild them. However, we also have rebuilt units for sale. We'll pay $1 apiece for worn-out arms." The rebuilt gauge wheel arms sell for $17.36 including the bushings. Bushings alone sell for $3.68 apiece. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Luecke Enterprises, 765 E. 41st., Hays, Kan. 67601 (ph 913 628-1426).

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