Note the belts that are tracking hard against the belt guide.Д¬lose the tailgate, shut off both the power take-off and the tractor engine. You will find some belts tracking right, some left and some in the center. You do not want the belts to curl on the belt guide. Look at the tailgate belt guide and see how the belts are tracking against the belt guide. Stand well clear of the baler since the parts are rotating. You need to stop raising the tailgate before the balers with declutch stop the belts. To get tension on the belts, open the tailgate about 3 or 4 feet. To adjust the tracking properly, there must be tension on the belts. Hook the tractor to the baler and run the power take-off. An over-filled tensioning system will cause belts to be very loose. If the pressure does not go to zero, then the tensioning system is overfilled.

It is common for the gauge to show several hundred pounds of pressure after the baler has set for some time. If the belts go any farther than that, you could have some belts longer than others.ДЄlso check the pressure gauge at the front of the baler.

If you push against the belt at the back of the baler, you can probably push the belt in 2 to 3 inches. On New Holland balers, the belts are not tight when the tailgate is closed with no hay in the baler. I always number the belts so I can place them back in the baler in the same spot they were running in before removal. To correct mis-tracking, if I have the belts out, I will check their length and cut them to the same length. If the belts track OK until the tailgate cylinders reach the end of their stroke, then there might be a problem with the tailgate latches not moving the same from one side to the other. If all the belts mis-track when opening the tailgate, there could be a twist in the tailgate. This will cause all the belts to run to one side. Another cause would be the sledge-roll slip clutch is slipping. If all the belts suddenly track to one side while baling, the cause could be the tailgate was not latched on one side. Slow your engine speed down and shift up in gears. This usually happens in dry short hay conditions. If the bale core breaks down while baling, belts will get loose and can flip. If belts are overly long, they will be loose when the tailgate is closed with no hay in the chamber. They may be three-ply belts but look more like two-ply belts.Д¬rop wrapping on rolls can cause some issues, but I cannot say I have seen a mis-tracking issue solved by cleaning the rolls.ДЇor the most part, belts do not stretch, but I have seen a few that did. The belts are soft and not as heavy as original equipment belts. There are good aftermarket belts, but I have seen some from reputable aftermarket suppliers that will not track properly. Some cheap aftermarket belts do not have the strength to track properly. If your driving habits cause a new belt to mis-track, that belt will continue to mis-track. New belt break-in is critical for future belt tracking.

Most of the belt will track, but when the kink comes around, the belt will track poorly. Lay the belt out, and it should lay flat and straight. If a belt broke and got wrapped around a roll, it is likely the belt got kinked. I have not encountered any customer-laced belts that have caused a problem. New Holland recommends belts should be within 1 to 1ВЅ inches in length when compared to each other.Д«elts not cut square can cause the belt to mis-track, but in my experience the belt would have to be seriously out of square. This goes back to the issue of loose belts walking.

Some belts mis-trackД«elts of different lengths can also affect belt tracking. With a narrower baler, this problem is easier to deal with. If the wheels are spread far enough apart, this can work quite well, but on hillsides the side drift of the baler will put the baler out of alignment with the tractor, and the end of the bale will not be filled out. Operators also rely on the front tractor tire as a driving guide. Operators have a hard time filling the left side of the bale because they are looking over their right shoulders. Four-foot-wide balers are less likely to have belt-tracking problems than 5-foot-wide balers.

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