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If you can turn wrenches and have some ambition and a service manual I would think you would enjoy it..Are you sure it needs rollers and idlers? I cant see it well enough to see that.With all OLD crawlers you have to decide how much you want to use it and if so so parts will get by or if your going...

One thing I just noticed, it has likely had an engine swap, the LH side of the hood is cut out to clear a non-Deere manifold. Quite common when someone bolts in a power unit out of something else. Lavoy Is that a good thing or a bad thing. I can turn a wrench some, and my loader tractor and bottle ...

I put the blade to the ground and spun the tracks, but I didn't think to try the steering levers. How complicated is it to replace the rollers?

Thank you. I don't have any close ups of the idler or the rollers. The bushings have not been turned, and they show some wear, but they didn't feel "flat". The current owner bought it a few months ago at auction with the idea of clearing cedar trees. He didn't know much about the dozer. He's asking ...

Howdy, I am new to tracked tractors, and I am looking at a JD 440 Dozer for road and small brush work. The Dozer, after a test drive, had some things that I noticed, but I don't know how big a deal it is or how hard and costly it will be to fix. The first is the front of the tracks (more so on the l...