Deere B drill.. Your thoughts

[Cavjock22]

clean it out, and put some diesel in the box and let it soak, grease all zerks, and if not able to get grease in a Zerk, clean it and try again,

and then take a 5/8" wrench or adjustable open end, AKA crescent, and work the shaft under the box that turns the flutes or cups,

one could take and jack up the drill, and work the wheel carefully, back and forth, if the feed shaft is bound up one can end up breaking the gears on a deere, if you do not manualy break it free, there is a reason under the lids it says "if the drill has set for more than 30 mins work the shaft,"

Did as you said but with PB Blaster... Believe it but all jerks took grease. Took me several hrs but finally got the feed shaft turning only on one side. The other side had the gear busted off. I jacked the tire up and with a little patience got it turning. I was even able to get the slide adjustment working. I had 3 acres to plant with tritacale and she performed very well. 1/2 of her....

2 questions... 1 Can I find the gear assy for the feed roller on the right? Thinking if parts not available, Cut her in 1/2... Thoughts

2 The little plates under the feed cups were all very stubborn. Some missing.. How critical are these and are there replacements available?

 

[BHD]

as far as parts many are still available , gears I do not know, (my guess is I doubt it), find a parts drill and remove it and swap it, (my guess both sides the gear is the same) the end that the gear rides in is a right and left,

I did cut a old DR down to a 7' drill and used it to patch in and in between the trees and such, not that hard,

there was a guy a number of years ago, that had been buying up old stock parts and had a good collection, the problem was getting him to part with them in a timely manor ,

I had ordered some casting from him and he said he had it , but still have never seen it,

he had a web page for old john deere parts, I have now lost it, but one could do a search, with the part number one could check deere, the part number on that old stuff was cast in to the part,

even call the tractor salvage yards, they may have some old drills,