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Bushings will be expensive regardless of made or purchased, but guessing most will be obsolete. Likely the pins will be worn too. Bushings for the cylinder ends might still be available, I just got some for a much older blade.
Lavoy

Rods I have on hand, mains are not currently available.
Lavoy

Function depends on which way you have mounted the controller and/or run the lines. If the controller lever over centers and stays locked in one direction, that is for brake release, plumb your line accordingly.
Lavoy

Main bearings have not been available for almost 2 years. To the best of my knowledge, Clevite has discontinued them, and will no longer be manufacturing them.
Lavoy

Pic above is it, thanks Hurlbutt. Yes, normally keep throwout bearings in stock.
Lavoy

Yes, in stock, $40.
Lavoy

I can only see one rail, but based on the one I can see clearly, the links look good. Pins and bushings were shot a few hundred hours ago, so no way that is original hours. The pitch is already so far off on that crawler it is eating the sprocket, taking a link out will just finish wrecking it. It h...

Yeah, I think I have welded several over the years and thought they were cast steel.
Lavoy

As long as you links are good enough shape to warrant it, rebush your exising rails, you will in all likelyhood never wear them out again.
I am working on a new production run of pins and bushings, would hope to start rebushing tracks by this fall if not earlier.
Lavoy

Yes, you can, but by doing so you are doing it knowing that you are running the tracks and sprockets to destruction.
Lavoy

Well crap, that sucks.
Lavoy

Reasonably sure that pedal is cast steel, not cast iron. Drive the crawler up on some railroad ties, slide underneath and weld it in place.
Option 2, cut the part of the pedal your foot pushes on off in the center, remove the pedal, fix the pedal, weld the cutoff section back on.
Lavoy

I may be wrong, but I highly doubt it due to the wet clutches and associated oil flow through the housings.
lavoy

He's working on a wheel tractor, not a crawler, I talked to him yesterday. Wheel tractor uses a one piece affair, can't use crawler pieces to fix it unfortunately.
Lavoy

Stacking is not factory, and no factory linkages or lever exist to do so, you will have to fabricate most of it. Sideways on the fender is the only configuration for dual hydraulics that is factory.
It will work, that is not an issue, it is just whatever your preference is.
Lavoy