Adjusting The Needle Entry Point; Feed Dog Height - JUKI HZL-X Series Service Manual

6-2 Adjusting the needle entry point

○ Remove the face cover.
Adjustment procedure
1. Select the straight stitch using the pattern selecting button. Choose center needle position.
2. Assemble a needle #14 into the needle bar, loosen the setscrew in the eccentric collar and adjust the feed
bar eccentric collar so that the needle meets the center of the needle slot in the throat plate when it reach-
es the top surface of the throat plate by turning the hand wheel.

6-3 Feed dog height

○ Do not remove the throat plate.
Adjustment procedure
1. Set the amount of feed to 0 (zero).
2. Turn the hand wheel to bring the feed dog to its highest dead point.
3. Turn left side shaft a and right side shaft b with a 2 mm hexagonal wrench.
4. Adjust the feed dog height so that the front and rear ends of the feed dog are spaced 1.0 ± 0.1 mm from
the top surface of the throat plate.
Adjust the rear end height of the feed dog with shaft a, and front end height with shaft b.
Shaft a
Setscrew
Feed bar eccentric collar
Shaft b
Shaft a
– 14 –
Shaft b