Document overview
Operator's manual for DEUTZ FAHR 6040 from the 6040 Eco family. Digital PDF in English, 394 pages.
The original table of contents contains 119 sections and 333 detailed topics, providing a clear view of the systems and procedures covered by this edition.
- Preface, introduction
- Safety
- Adhesive safety warning decals
- Structure and operation
- Technical data
- Control buttons
- Cutting table adjustment
- Daily checks
- Travel and transport
- Cutting table
- Threshing mechanism
- Hydraulic system
Document details
- Brand: DEUTZ FAHR
- Family: 6040 Eco
- Model: 6040
- Document type: Operator's manual
- Language: English
- Pages: 394
- File size: 24.28 MiB
- Format: Digital PDF download
Compatibility
Before purchasing, verify that the model and starting serial number of your machine match 6040.
Complete table of contents
Preface, introduction
Introduction
- Authorised Operating Conditions
Drive sensibly – save running costs
- Environmental tips
Safety
- Conventions adopted in the diagram
Safety instructions
- Recognition of warning symbols and understanding warning terminology
- Observe the safety instructions
- Protective guards and devices
- Basic rule
- Observing road traffic regulations
- Starting the engine
- Using starting aids
- Wear suitable protective clothing
- Provisions for emergencies
- Transfer on urban roads
- Carrying passengers
- Personnel qualifications; basic responsibilities
- Driving conditions, road transport, travel and working operation
- Mobile phones, radios, electrical equipment, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
- Safety equipment, lighting
- Parking
- Front attachments, additional equipment
- Operation, mounting and demounting of front attachments and accessories
- Transporting front attachments
- Grain tank
- Lifting the combine harvester, supporting the machine safely from underneath
- Towing and recovery
- Safe maintenance and repair
- Spare parts
- Caution in the case of leaks from pressurised lines
- Fuel and lubricants
- Electrical equipment
- Battery
- Tyres, wheels and tyre fitting
- Safe maintenance of the cooling system
- Air conditioning system
- Disposal of environmentally harmful substances, environmental protection
- Decals on the combine harvester with contents relevant for maintenance
Main side hatches locking device
- Side hatches retaining system
- Side hatches opening
- Side hatches closing
- Opening and closing the straw chopper cover flap
- Closing the hatch
Grain tank
- Trafficable surfaces
- Locking the grain tank cover
- Rear lock
Service platforms
- Service platform, rear left
- Service platform, rear right
- Locking the rotary filter cowling
- Steps to the grain tank inspection points
- Access flap for solenoid valves
- Fire extinguisher
- Storage compartment
Cutting table side flap lock
- Locking the side flap of the cutting table
- Opening the side flap
- Closing the side flap
Safety precautions when parking the combine harvester
- Safety precautions when parking the combine harvester
- Battery isolator switch
- Wheel chocks (2)
Protections and warning notices for road travel
- Feed passage
- Feed passage locking bracket
- Excess width indication
- Front attachment locking lever
Adhesive safety warning decals
Adhesive safety warning decals
- Notes concerning the “Safety Symbols” Chapter
Structure and operation
- Construction of the combine harvester
Construction of the threshing mechanism
- Main components
- Threshing drum
- Threshing drum speed variator
- Synchronized straw beater (optional)
- Turbo separator (optional)
Cutting table components
- Pick-up reel
- Crop dividers
- Cutting table intake auger
- Feed passage
Construction of the rape cutting table
- Rape cutting table
- Maintenance of the side knives hydraulic drive system
- Lateral guards on the left hand side of the cutting table
Structure of the tailings return system
- Straw walker
- Screening and winnowing
- Elevator for tailings return
- Straw guide rake
Technical data
- Technical data
- Dimensions
Identification plates
- Identification data
- Chassis number
- Engine number
- Engine identification plate
- Cutter bar transport trolley identification plate
Control buttons
Control buttons
- Controls to the RH side of the operator’s seat
- Controls to the left of the operator’s seat
- Command and control switches
On-board computer
- Information on the display
- Multi-information AREA
- Indicator lights AREA
- Grain loss monitoring system AREA
- Cutting table control device
Range selector lever
- Main gear lever
Commander Stick
- Control for ground speed and direction changes
Sieve box lighting
- Lighting button
Air conditioning system controls
- Control panel
- Use of the air conditioning system
Headlights and windscreen wiper controls
- Lighting system
- Interior light located on right-hand side of cab roof lining
Climate control system air recalculating filter
- Recirculating air filter
Cab air filters
- Cab ambient air intake filters
Defroster/demister vents
- Defroster/demister vents
Fresh air vents
- Fresh air vents
Grain quality control window
- Inspection window
Steering wheel
- Steering wheel
Lights switch
- Lights – horn stalk
Starter switch
- Diesel engine ignition switch
Operator seat
- Standard operator’s seat
- Aerofit operator’s seat
Storage compartment and beverage holder
- Storage compartment under the right-hand console
- Storage compartment positioned under the driver seat
- Beverage holder
- Storage compartment in cab roof lining
Service brakes
- Brake pedal
Parking brake
- Parking brake
Cab access
- Cab door internal handle
- Cab external handle
Rear-view mirrors
- LH rearview mirror
- RH rearview mirror
CCTV monitor BE-850M
- 5-inch LCD TFT colour monitor BE 850M
- VIDEO CAMERA
Cutting table adjustment
Electronic Cutter bar Table Control
- Principle of operation and function of the electronic cutting table control
- Quick guide
- Operating modes
- Fitting and removing front attachments
- Calibration
Description and list of error messages
- Fault diagnosis
- Error code
- List of error codes
Daily checks
- Checks required before daily use
- Combine harvester checks before starting operation and following prolonged periods of storage
Travel and transport
Safety instructions – Road travel
- Driving on public roads
- Getting up and down from the combine harvester
Starting – stopping the engine
- Engine operation
- After starting the engine
Transmission
- Drive-away and acceleration
Operating principle and instructions for the brake system
- Separate braking
Towing hitch
- Manual towing hitch
- Automatic towing hitch
Tyre inflation pressure, tightening torques
- Wheel screw tightening torques
- Inflation pressure of tyres on front driving wheels
- Inflation pressure of tyres on rear steer wheels
- Cab access ladder
Ballast weight
- Metal ballast
- Ballasting by filling the steering tyres with water
- Filling the tyres with water.
- Draining water from the tyre
Towing the combine
- Transport over long distances
Cutting table
Safety warnings
- Safety instructions
- Important notes for operation
- Construction of the cutting table
Reel drive
- Reel control
- Cutter bar
- Intake auger
- Feed passage lifting cylinders
Cutting table engagement/disengagement
- Cutting table engagement
- Connections for operation
- Multi-way coupling (optional)
- Cutting table disengagement
- Multi-way coupling disengagement (certain markets only)
- Disconnecting the cutting table
Table trolley
- Drawbar jockey wheel
Transport trolley with brakes
- Adjusting the brake activated by the drawbar eye
Manoeuvres of the cutting table
- Cutting table control device
- Raising and lowering the cutting table
- Activation of the cutting table
- Cutting table disengagement
- Pick-up reel adjustment
- Electrical reversal of the cutting table
- Manual reversing
Mounting optional attachments
- Ear lifters
- Crop dividers
- Serrated bars secured to the feed auger to convey the straw
Cutter bar maintenance
- Maintenance
- Changing the feed fingers
- Changing the cutter bar
- Replacing the knives and fingers of the cutter bar
- Changing reel tines
- Changing the linings of the slipping clutches
- Setting the slipping clutches
- Faults on the cutting table
Threshing mechanism
- Safety instructions for the threshing section
Feed passage
- Tensioning the conveyor chains
- Feed channel reversing device
Threshing mechanism
- Engaging the threshing section
- Setting the speed of the threshing drum
- Threshing drum speed adjustment
- Basic adjustment of the concave
Concave de-awning plates
- De-awning plates opening adjustment
Cleaning the threshing drum and concave
- Emptying the stone trap
- Straw walker
Straw chopper
- Straw chopper (optional)
Chaff spreader blowers
- Chaff spreader (manufacturer: KPAB)
Straw walker cleaning unit
- Screening and winnowing
Setting the turbo fan speed
- Turbo fan speed
Grain loss monitor sensors and renewal and adjustment of the sieves
- Sensors for monitoring grain loss
- Removing and adjusting the sieves
- Cleaning/inspecting the sieves
- Installing the bottom sieves
- Installing the top sieves
- Installing the top sieve extensions
- Adjusting the sieves (standard version)
Grain tank
- Checking the level in the grain tank
- Grain sampling flap
- Inspection window
- Trafficable surfaces at the top of the combine harvester
- Grain tank cover
- Grain tank light
- Setting deflectors of the grain auger at the bottom of the grain tank
Grain tank discharge pipe
- Rotation of the discharge pipe
To empty the tank
- Emptying residual grain from the grain tank
Grain elevator
- Checking elevator chain tension
- Tensioning the chain
Tailings return system
- Setting the engine speed
- Safety flap in the event of clogging
- Protection against overloads
- Cleaning the grain returns elevator
- Cleaning the conveyor augers
Faults on the threshing mechanism
- Fault diagnosis
Basic adjustments on the threshing section
- Basic adjustment of the combine harvester (factory adjustment)
- Advice on using the adjustment tables for different crops
Adjustment on the basis of crop type
- Beans
- C.C.M. (Corn Box Mix)
- Peas
- Alfalfa
- Oats
- Maize
- Flax
- Rapeseed
- Rice
- Rye
- Barley
- Wheat
- Sunflower
- Soya
- Rye
- Durum wheat
- Barley
Hydraulic system
- Safety instructions for the hydraulic system
System components
- Ground drive hydraulic transmission
Control valves block
- Emergency operation” of the control valves
Changing the hydraulic oil
- Hydraulic oil
- Changing the oil filter of the ground drive hydraulics
- Cleaning the filter on the oil recovery pipe from the engine
- Cleaning the filter on the oil recovery pipe from the engine
- Changing the hydraulic motor oil recovery circuit oil filter
Ground drive hydraulics faults
- Anomalous noise levels in the combine harvester traction system
- Commander Stick “NEUTRAL” position adjustment
- Checking the pump
Steering system
- Checking the working hydraulic systems
- General checks of the hydraulic systems
Electrical equipment
- Safety instructions
- Electrical system main components
- Battery isolator switch
- Check the battery
- Fuses and relays compartment
- Fuse and relay assignment in control cabinet
- Potential faults – causes and corrective actions
Maintenance
Safety instructions
- Always observe the safety notes in the “Safety precautions” section.
- Personnel qualifications:
- Fluids / lubricants and fill volumes
General checks required before using the combine harvester
- Main maintenance operations before using the combine harvester for the first time
- Maintenance required before using the combine harvester for the first time
Maintenance and inspection schedule
- Checks and maintenance operations to be carried out every year before the start of the harvest season
- Antifreeze and coolant
Fuel – technical characteristics
- Fuels with high sulphur content
- Fuel additives
- Ann. 1 : Fuel Specifications (minimum requirements): Diesel fuel according to EN 590:2004
- Ann. 2 : Fuel Specifications (minimum requirements) according to ASTM D 975
- Cooling system protectants
Storage of the combine harvester
- Operations prior to long term garaging
Lubrication
- Lubrication plan
Maintenance and care of the engine
- Warnings:
- Engine faults
Checking the engine cooling system
- Draining / bleeding the cooling system
Air filter
- Cleaning the dry air filter
- Cleaning the dry air filter
Fuel tank
- Fuel tank
- Fuel pump
- Bleeding the fuel system
- Drain water from the fuel pre-filter
- Changing the fuel prefilter
Braking system
- Checking the service brakes
- Bleeding the brakes circuit
- Proceed as follows:
- Parking brake
Check level and change oil of front axle gearbox and final drives
- Checking the oil level
- Changing the oil
- Front axle final drives
- Gearbox control linkages
Threshing drum reduction gear
- Checking the oil level
- Changing the oil
- Drive belts and chains
Chains and drive belts maintenance
- General warnings
- Tensioner springs length adjustment method
- Tensioner springs length adjustment method
V-belt clutches
- General information
- Prescriptions for adjusting belt clutches
- Check the tension of the springs of the tensioners, controlled by means of an electric servomotor
Threshing section clutch
- Adjusting the belt guides
Grain tank clutch
- Adjusting the belt guides
Mounting the cutting table
- Adjusting the belt guides
- Functional test
- Setting the grain pan position
- Straw walker drive
- Turbofan transmission
Elevator for tailings return
- Elevator drive
- Sieve box crank rod
Grain elevator drive
- Slipping clutch
- Checking the elevator chain tension
- Checking the elevator head chain tension
Grain-tank discharge drive
- Checking the chain tension
Threshing drum drive
- Changing the threshing drum variator belt
Feed passage
- Adjusting the diagonal struts
- Slipping clutch
- Adjusting the slipping clutch
Changing the cab air filters
- Air filters (1)
- Air recirculation filter
Chaff spreader blowers
- Checking the oil level
Cab air conditioning system
- Safety instructions for the air conditioning system
Lubrication
Warnings for the use of lubricants
- Using lubricants
- Cutting table lubrication points
- Feed passage lubrication points
- Lubrication points on front LH side
- Lubrication points of grain elevator and steering axle (LH side)
- Lubrication points of grain elevator and steering axle (LH side)
- Lubrication points on the rear RH side of the combine harvester
- Lubrication points on the central RH side of the combine harvester
- Lubrication points on the front RH side of the combine harvester
- Lubrication points of Brake pedals and grain tank unloading system
- Lubrication points
