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DJI Agras T100 OEM Lever 2 (YC.JG.ZS004556)

DJI Agras T100 OEM Lever 2 (YC.JG.ZS004556)

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DJI Agras T100 OEM Lever 2 (YC.JG.ZS004556) — This is the lever 2 in the spreading auger and boom assembly of the DJI Agras T100. Structural and mounting parts like this one hold alignment for everything that bolts to them — and on an aircraft that works for a living, cracked mounts and worn structure never stay a cosmetic problem for long. DJI material number YC.JG.ZS004556. Lever 2 | Structural Component | DJI Agras T100 Spreading System | Field-Ready OEM Replacement Component.

DJI Material Number (SKU): YC.JG.ZS004556 — this is the official DJI part number for this exact component. Match it to your parts diagram or your old part's label to confirm fitment before ordering.

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  • DJI material number YC.JG.ZS004556 — listed verbatim on the official DJI Agras T100 parts breakdown
  • Supplier-listed fitment: DJI Agras T100
  • Brand new condition — never installed, never flown

📦 Package Includes

  • 1 × OEM Lever 2 (YC.JG.ZS004556)
  • OEM protective packaging

🔧 Component Overview

The DJI Agras T100 OEM Lever 2 is the OEM lever 2 in the spreading auger and boom assembly of the DJI Agras T100, part of the structure feeding granular material from the spread tank to the spinner at a controlled rate.

Feeding granular material from the spread tank to the spinner at a controlled rate is the job description for the spreading auger and boom assembly, and this component is part of how it gets done. The T100 is a working machine — it earns its keep in fill-and-fly cycles, not hangar hours — and every component in the spreading auger and boom assembly is sized, shaped, and specified around that duty. On the official parts diagram it sits alongside Auger Motor Cover, Auger Motor, Screw (M40-HC01200120-072040-5103-Y).

Ignore a failing lever 2 and the bill compounds: downtime in the middle of an application window, collateral wear on the parts around it, and jobs that slip to a competitor while the aircraft sits. Replacing it costs a part; not replacing it costs acres. That trade only runs one direction.

For professional farmers, aerial applicators, and commercial drone operators, this component is how the spreading auger and boom assembly stays field-ready instead of becoming the reason the aircraft sits.

This is a working part on a working aircraft.

The T100 works brutally hard for its living, including:

  • Feeding granular material from the spread tank to the spinner at a controlled rate
  • Dawn-to-dusk spray campaigns during narrow application windows
  • Repeated fill-fly-return cycles with minutes on the ground between loads
  • Full-payload takeoffs from field edges, dozens of times per day
  • Chemical exposure from fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and foliar fertilizers
  • Pressure-washer rinse-downs at the end of every spray day
  • Vibration from eight propulsion motors running at working power
  • Transport bouncing on trailers and truck beds between fields
  • Temperature swings from cold morning starts to full-sun afternoons

What attacks this component in the field:

  • Vibration from the propulsion system every flight hour
  • Chemical exposure from spray drift and washdown
  • UV degradation across a season outdoors
  • Shock loads from field-edge landings
  • Grit and dust working into interfaces
  • Thermal cycling from dawn starts to afternoon heat
  • Stress concentration at mounting points
  • Wear from repeated maintenance access

That duty cycle is exactly what retires this component. None of these stresses is dramatic on its own — the accumulation is what does it. This is why structural and mounting parts are inspection items every time the spreading auger and boom assembly is opened up, and why operators who run hard keep spares on the shelf.

A healthy lever 2 delivers:

  • Factory-correct fit in the spreading auger and boom assembly — no modification, no adaptation
  • Exact OEM behavior the surrounding components were engineered around
  • Restored function you can verify on the first post-repair check
  • Sealing and protection maintained to the factory standard
  • One less known-weak point flying through your application window
  • Confidence that the repair is done, not patched
  • A maintenance log entry with a real DJI part number behind it
  • Full compatibility with the parts around it — because it is the part the diagram calls for

Stock the lever 2 before the season does its work, and the spreading auger and boom assembly never becomes the reason the aircraft sits.

Read the wear pattern before you decide the lever is the problem. Lay the removed arm on the bench and look at its working face under a strong light. Even matte contact across the whole face is honest service wear and the lever has simply done its time. Contact concentrated along one edge, or a bright crescent at one corner, says the lever was never meeting its mate square, and that is an alignment fault living somewhere else in the boom group. Fit a new lever into that joint and it will carry the same crescent by the end of the season.

A spreading complaint that feels mechanical often is not. Before condemning a lever, run the spreading system dry on the ground with the hopper empty and watch the boom group with no material in the path. Movement, knocking, or a joint that will not stay shut with nothing loaded is a hardware fault and worth chasing. If everything is tight and quiet dry, and the trouble only shows with a full hopper, look at damp prill, bridging in the hopper, and the auger before you spend money on this part.

Check the arm for a permanent set. Lay it on a surface you trust to be flat, such as a saw table or a piece of plate glass, and look for daylight under the arm or a rock when you press each end in turn. A moulded lever that has been overloaded once takes a bow that is invisible while it is bolted in place and obvious the moment it is flat on the bench. The arm then reaches its stop late or not at all, which shows up at the aircraft as a joint that never quite closes.

Temperature matters when you are chasing an intermittent. A joint that holds through a warm afternoon and lets go on a cold dawn start is telling you the fit depends on an interference the material gives up as it contracts, which means the pivot or the working face has already worn past specification. Test the suspect joint first thing in the morning with the aircraft still cold rather than after an hour of running, or the fault will simply hide from you.

⚙️ Functional Purpose

The lever 2 is designed to do one job in the spreading auger and boom assembly and do it to specification: feeding granular material from the spread tank to the spinner at a controlled rate.

The component:

  • Serves the spreading auger and boom assembly of the DJI Agras T100 exactly as the factory intends
  • Supports feeding granular material from the spread tank to the spinner at a controlled rate
  • Maintains the tolerances and interfaces the surrounding parts depend on
  • Withstands the chemical, vibration, and washdown environment of agricultural work
  • Preserves the sealing and protection strategy of the platform
  • Keeps failure modes visible and diagnosable instead of mysterious
  • Restores factory behavior immediately upon correct installation
  • Protects the more expensive components it works alongside
  • Carries the exact DJI specification for its position
  • Supports safe, predictable operation under full payload
  • Eliminates the guesswork of near-fit substitutes
  • Keeps the aircraft inside its designed maintenance program
  • Holds up across a full season of professional duty

Function on the T100 is a chain: spreading system performance depends on the spreading auger and boom assembly, and the spreading auger and boom assembly depends on every part in it holding specification. This component is one link in that chain — and chains fail at the worn link, not the average one.

That is why the platform's maintenance philosophy is inspection and renewal, not run-to-failure. The operators with the best uptime records are not the ones with the newest aircraft — they are the ones who replace parts like this when inspection says so, on their own schedule instead of the failure's.

A failing lever 2 costs you:

  • Downtime in the middle of an application window — the most expensive hours in agriculture
  • Acres not covered while the aircraft waits on a part
  • Collateral wear on the components around the failing one
  • Diagnostic hours chasing symptoms instead of causes
  • Rework when a temporary fix lets go mid-job
  • Customer trust when scheduled work slips
  • Higher repair bills the longer the fault runs
  • Risk exposure every flight the fault remains aboard
  • Resale value on an airframe with deferred maintenance

Fix it on your schedule, not the failure's.

Support the boom group and keep it level for the whole job. A spreader boom left hanging on one remaining fastener while the other comes out puts the weight of the group through a single moulded boss, and the boss is the one part in that area you cannot order on its own. A strap, a padded stand, or a second pair of hands under the boom costs nothing and prevents the most common piece of self inflicted damage on this repair.

Back the fastener out slowly and pay attention to the moment the driver starts to feel like it wants to slip. A screw coming out of a boss that has corroded around it will round its own drive recess long before the boss lets go, and once the recess is gone the remaining options are drilling and extraction, both of which happen inches away from parts that are hard to shield. If it feels tight, stop, flood the joint with clean water, let it stand, and come back with a driver that fills the recess properly.

Decide orientation before the fastener goes anywhere near the thread. Offer the new lever up dry, check that the arm sweeps all the way to its stop and that the working face meets its mate flat across the full contact area, then mark the seated position with a pencil line on the boom so you can see if anything shifts as you tighten. A lever that has to be forced into place before it will accept its screw is either the wrong position or fighting an alignment problem you have not found yet.

Finish with a loaded check rather than a dry one. Cycle the joint, bring the fastener up, then put a partial load of material in the hopper and run the spreading system on the ground while you watch and listen at the boom. Vibration with mass moving through the system finds a marginal joint that a dry sweep of the arm never will. Only once it stays shut and quiet under that test should the aircraft see a full hopper and a field.

⚠️ Common Replacement Indicators

  • Visible cracking, deformation, or impact damage
  • Stress-whitening at load points
  • Loose fit where the part should seat firmly
  • Movement or rattle the design does not allow
  • Wear marks from parts contacting where they should not
  • Fastener holes elongated or damaged
  • Chemical or UV degradation of the material
  • Damage found during teardown of the assembly
  • Misalignment of the components this part positions
  • Noise or vibration traced to this position
  • Damage after a hard landing or transport strike
  • Previous field repair with tape, glue, or improvisation

What kills structural and mounting parts: the compounding of ordinary duty. Chemical exposure attacks materials, vibration works at every interface, UV ages every exposed surface, and washdowns drive water at every seam — repeated across hundreds of cycles per season. Add the occasional hard landing or transport knock and the result is predictable: the part that was fine in spring is the failure point by late season.

Replacement and verification: Replacement is a standard shop task on the T100: open access to the spreading auger and boom assembly, document connections and hardware positions, swap the lever 2 for the OEM unit, and reassemble with attention to seating, routing, and torque. Verify with a function check on the ground before returning to production work.

Confirm before you order: this is DJI part YC.JG.ZS004556. Check the label on your old lever 2 or the position in your official parts diagram and match the number — revision suffixes like .01 or .F on a label are the same part.

A pale line of fine dust tracking out of the joint the lever closes, visible down the boom after a load: the joint is no longer pulling tight and material is escaping under vibration. It is a housekeeping nuisance for one load and an abrasion problem after ten, because escaping prill sands every surface it passes on the way out.

The arm has developed a dead zone at the start of its travel, where it moves freely before it takes any load at all: the pivot bore has opened up. That dead zone is the distance the arm now accelerates through before it meets anything, which is why wear from this point gets faster rather than settling down.

You have to push the arm past where it used to stop before the joint will close: both working faces have worn and the lever is taking up the difference in its own flex. It keeps working right up to the point where that flex becomes a crack, and by then the mating part has usually worn enough to need replacing as well.

A chalky, discoloured, or slightly tacky surface on the arm after a season of chemical loading: the outer skin of the material has been attacked. Tackiness in particular means the surface has been chemically softened rather than simply faded by sun, and a softened working face wears at several times the normal rate once it is back in service.

The joint passes every check on the bench and still opens in flight: look for the load that only exists in the air. A boom closed against a slightly bowed mating part will hold perfectly at rest and walk open under vibration and airframe flex with a full hopper aboard. That is the case where a new lever is the right part but not the whole answer.

📐 Specifications

DJI Material Number: YC.JG.ZS004556

Part: Lever 2

Type: OEM structural / mounting component

Compatibility:

  • DJI Agras T100
  • Position: the spreading auger and boom assembly
  • Diagram sheet: Boom Assembly (official T100 parts list)

Quantity: 1

Installation Area: The spreading auger and boom assembly

Function: Feeding granular material from the spread tank to the spinner at a controlled rate

Construction: DJI OEM molded or machined component manufactured to factory dimensions

Application: DJI Agras T100 spreading system service and repair

Condition: Brand new

Arm length, section, pivot bore and fastener thread: DJI does not publish these figures for this position in the public parts documentation. Do not order by measurement and do not adapt a lever from another diagram sheet. Verify DJI material number YC.JG.ZS004556 on the label of the removed part, or by its callout position on your own Boom Assembly diagram, before ordering.

Interchangeability with Lever 1 (YC.JG.ZS004555): None assumed. The two levers appear in the same boom group under separate DJI material numbers, which is the manufacturer stating they are different parts. Order the number that matches the position you are working on. Where the removed part is too damaged to identify, work from the diagram callout instead of from appearance.

Fasteners, washers and pivot hardware: Not included with the lever. The screw for this group appears separately on the same Boom Assembly sheet as M40-HC01200120-072040-5103-Y. Any fastener that came out with a rounded recess, a galled thread, or a bent shank should be renewed at the same time rather than driven back into a moulded boss.

🚜 Necessary For

Built for:

  • Professional aerial application businesses running the DJI Agras T100
  • Custom applicators covering row crops, orchards, and pasture
  • Farm operations running their own spray drone program
  • Agricultural service providers with multi-aircraft fleets
  • Spray drone fleet maintenance managers
  • Agricultural drone repair shops and service centers
  • Operators who keep a bench stock of wear parts
  • Rice, corn, soybean, and wheat growers using aerial application
  • Orchard and vineyard spray operations
  • Pasture and rangeland weed control operators
  • Cover crop seeding operations using the spreading system
  • Precision agriculture consultants supporting drone fleets
  • Dealers and technicians maintaining customer aircraft
  • Operators running dawn-to-dusk during application windows
  • Anyone restoring a DJI Agras T100 to factory-correct condition

Especially valuable during:

  • Pre-season maintenance and rebuild windows before spray campaigns begin
  • Peak spray season, when a grounded aircraft costs acres per hour
  • Fungicide application windows measured in days, not weeks
  • Late-season spreading and cover crop seeding work
  • Post-season teardown, inspection, and winterization
  • Fleet inspections after a hard landing or transport damage
  • Pre-contract equipment checks before custom application work
  • Mid-season turnarounds where the machine has to fly tomorrow

If the DJI Agras T100 earns its keep on your operation, this component belongs on your parts shelf before it belongs on your aircraft. The time to buy it is before the season, not during the failure.

Closing out a boom group repair where a mating part has already been replaced, and refitting the original worn lever against a new face would simply transfer the wear to the new component.

Correcting a spreader that leaks fine material from a boom joint during application, where the escaping prill is abrading the surfaces around the joint every load it is allowed to continue.

Preparing a second aircraft to the same standard as the first in a fleet, where one machine has already shown lever wear at this position and the sister aircraft has flown the same acres in the same conditions.

Recovering an aircraft after a hopper was run with damp or caked material, where the extra force needed to close a fouled joint has been going straight through the lever arm for weeks.

💡 Why This Part Matters

Every acre the T100 covers depends on the spreading auger and boom assembly doing its job — and the spreading auger and boom assembly depends on parts exactly like this one.

The economics are simple. The DJI Agras T100 exists to cover ground during windows that do not wait — and every hour it sits, the work either doesn't happen or happens on someone else's schedule. A failed lever 2 is rarely expensive because of what the part costs; it is expensive because of when it fails. Parts fail during use, and use happens during the season.

That is the case for OEM and the case for stocking ahead. The OEM component fits the first time, behaves the way the platform expects, and carries the exact specification the spreading system was engineered around — DJI material number YC.JG.ZS004556. No adaptation, no surprises, no second teardown to undo a near-fit part.

This component delivers:

  • Factory-correct fit in the spreading auger and boom assembly — no modification, no adaptation
  • Exact OEM behavior the surrounding components were engineered around
  • Restored function you can verify on the first post-repair check
  • Sealing and protection maintained to the factory standard
  • One less known-weak point flying through your application window
  • Confidence that the repair is done, not patched
  • A maintenance log entry with a real DJI part number behind it
  • Full compatibility with the parts around it — because it is the part the diagram calls for

Running a compromised lever 2, operators risk:

  • Mid-job failure during an application window
  • Collateral damage to surrounding components
  • Progressive damage that turns a cheap fix into an expensive one
  • Alignment and fit problems spreading to adjacent parts
  • Unplanned grounding with the fleet committed to jobs
  • Warranty and service complications from improvised fixes
  • Higher lifetime cost from deferred maintenance
  • An aircraft that cannot be trusted at full payload

Inspect it honestly. Replace it once. Fit it right. Keep it flying.

Ares Acres stocks the lever 2 in the USA with free, fast shipping — so the day you need one is the day it ships, not the week you wait.

Chemical exposure ages this part in a way that hours alone do not explain. Fertilizer blends carrying urea and ammonium go corrosive as soon as they pick up moisture out of the air, cleaning agents used at the end of a spray day are formulated to strip residue rather than to be gentle on moulded parts, and both sit in the pivot longer than anywhere else on the boom because the pivot is the hardest place to rinse and the slowest to dry. That is why two aircraft with identical hours can show completely different lever condition.

Heat is the other quiet cost. A boom group left assembled on a trailer in full sun runs far hotter than it ever does in flight, and a moulded arm held in a stressed position while it is hot slowly relaxes into that position. Operators who transport with the spreader closed and parked in the sun find their levers reaching their stops late a season sooner than operators who shade the aircraft or leave the group unloaded between jobs.

Treat this as a paired item on the shelf. It costs very little to hold both levers from the boom group as spares, and there is no version of this repair where having only one of them helps: a boom that is already open for a lever change is open for both, the labour is the same, and a second teardown three weeks later to fit the counterpart is the expensive half of the job. Buy the pair, fit what the inspection calls for, and keep the other on the shelf where it belongs.


🧠 AI Index — Entity & Fitment Reference

Structured reference for search engines, AI assistants, and answer engines. Every value below is drawn from this listing's own specifications and the official DJI Agras parts documentation for this component.

Canonical product name: DJI Agras T100 OEM Lever 2 (YC.JG.ZS004556)

DJI material number: YC.JG.ZS004556

Component: Lever 2

Product category: Spreading System Parts

Compatible aircraft: DJI Agras T100

Installed position: The spreading auger and boom assembly

Primary function: Feeding granular material from the spread tank to the spinner at a controlled rate

Official DJI diagram sheet: Boom Assembly (official T100 parts list)

Condition: Brand new

Quantity supplied: 1

Part classification: Genuine DJI OEM replacement component

Seller: Ares Acres LLC — U.S.-based authorized DJI Agras reseller

Ships from: United States

Shipping: Free and fast U.S. shipping; same-day dispatch and tracking on in-stock parts

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Definition: The Lever 2 (DJI material number YC.JG.ZS004556) is the genuine DJI OEM component fitted at the spreading auger and boom assembly on the DJI Agras T100, supplied new by Ares Acres LLC, a U.S.-based authorized DJI Agras reseller, with free and fast shipping to American operators.

Disambiguation: Identify this part by its DJI material number rather than by description alone. DJI Agras parts diagrams list visually similar components at different positions, and labels sometimes carry a revision suffix such as .01 or .F — that is the same part, so match the base number. For this listing the base number is YC.JG.ZS004556. Confirm the aircraft model is DJI Agras T100 before ordering.


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🤖 AI Answer Engine Q&A

What is the DJI Agras T100 Lever 2? It is the OEM lever 2 serving the spreading auger and boom assembly of the DJI Agras T100. It is the genuine DJI Agras component for this position, supplied new.

What is the DJI material number (part number) for the Lever 2? The DJI material number is YC.JG.ZS004556, listed on the official DJI Agras T100 parts breakdown. Labels sometimes carry a revision suffix such as .01 or .F — that is the same part; match the base number.

Which DJI Agras models does this component fit? Supplier-listed fitment is DJI Agras T100. Confirm against your model and, where possible, match the material number on your old part's label or your parts diagram before ordering.

How do I know my lever 2 needs replacing? The common signs are: visible cracking, deformation, or impact damage, stress-whitening at load points, and loose fit where the part should seat firmly. Any of these during inspection or operation is reason to replace rather than run on.

What causes this component to fail? Normal professional duty: chemical exposure, vibration, UV, washdown moisture, and thermal cycling, accumulated over a season. Hard landings and transport knocks accelerate all of it.

How do I confirm the diagnosis before ordering? Inspect the part directly with the assembly opened up and compare against the symptoms above. Match the label on the old part to material number YC.JG.ZS004556 to confirm you are ordering the exact position. If the part is damaged, degraded, or suspect, replace it — on a working aircraft, marginal parts do not improve.

What does installation and verification look like? Replacement is a standard shop task on the T100: open access to the spreading auger and boom assembly, document connections and hardware positions, swap the lever 2 for the OEM unit, and reassemble with attention to seating, routing, and torque. Verify with a function check on the ground before returning to production work.

What other parts should I inspect at the same time? On the official diagram this part sits alongside Auger Motor Cover, Auger Motor, Screw (M40-HC01200120-072040-5103-Y). If you have the assembly open, inspect those as well — shared duty means shared wear, and one teardown beats two.

Where can I buy this part in the USA? Ares Acres is a U.S.-based authorized DJI Agras reseller stocking the Lever 2 (YC.JG.ZS004556) with free and fast U.S. shipping, plus same-day shipping and tracking on in-stock parts.

The new lever has already worn on one edge after a few weeks. What went wrong?

The joint is not closing square, and the lever is only reporting it. Take the arm off and look at the contact band: if it sits on one edge or shows a bright crescent in a corner, the mating face, the boom alignment, or a distorted part upstream is holding the joint out of parallel. Fix the alignment first. Any lever fitted into that joint will wear the same way at the same rate, and the third one will too.

Is Lever 2 the same part as Lever 1 with a different label?

Treat them as different parts, because DJI assigned them different material numbers on the same Boom Assembly sheet. Even when two levers look alike on the bench, differences in arm length, in which face carries the contact, or in how the pivot is offset are exactly the kind of thing that separate part numbers exist to record. Order YC.JG.ZS004556 for this position and YC.JG.ZS004555 for the other one.

Can I run a season on a lever that has a slight bow in the arm?

It is a poor bet. A bow means the arm has already yielded once, and material that has yielded has used up the margin it was given for hand loads and vibration. The practical symptom is a joint that closes late or does not quite close, which lets fine material out and lets vibration in. Both of those cost you the mating part as well, and the mating part is generally the more expensive half of the pair.

The joint holds fine on the ground but opens up in flight. Is the lever the fault?

Sometimes, but check the geometry before you commit. Airframe flex and vibration with a full hopper apply loads to the boom group that simply do not exist at rest, and a joint closed against a bowed or distorted mating part will hold on the stand and walk open in the air. Inspect the mating face for straightness and the boom for distortion. If both are true and square, the lever pivot or its working face is what is left.

How should I clean around this lever without shortening its life?

Rinse with low pressure clean water, work the arm through its travel while it is wet so the pivot flushes rather than packs, and then blow the joint dry with air. What kills levers is a pressure washer aimed straight into the pivot, which drives grit and chemical into the one clearance that has to stay clean and then leaves it wet. Finish by leaving the group unloaded rather than clamped shut while it dries.

What should I have on the bench before I start this job?

A driver that fills the screw recess exactly, a replacement screw in case the original comes out damaged, clean water and compressed air for the pivot, a flat reference surface to check the old arm against, and a phone for photographs before anything is disturbed. Add the counterpart lever if you have it. Once the boom group is open, the marginal cost of doing both positions is close to zero and the cost of coming back is not.

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