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| The fastest wear points of the 7000 planter are the gauge wheel arm pivots and the pivots for the tail piece. Opening disks wear too. Drive chains wear or rust rigid from inactivity. I had to cut some off of mine, those for the insecticide and herbicide boxes out back. The bearings for the drill drive shaft (hex shaft) wear. Worn gauge wheel arm bushings let the gauge wheels flop. There are replacement parts from Deere, Shoup, and the best ones from RDK.
Finger units wear the fingers and the back plate. Bean cups are irregular and so expensive to run, Kinze brush units, Deere brush units and Shoup brush units are all reported to work. I know the Kinze work very well because that's what I have on my 4 row. The drop belts wear and the seed tubes wear. The lenses on the monitor detector eyes get frosted from seed dragging on the. Sloan had the best price on those the last I bought about 10 years ago.
The steel line for the marker inside the main tube rusted through because of mouse liquid excrement. The seals in that cylinder can wear but aren't expensive to replace, just inconvenient.
Everything that moves does wear but by now most should have been replaced once. My 7000 was delivered in 1974 so its been around a while but it set a planting quality that modern expensive planters try to do as well.
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John Deere 7000 planter advice
