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You guys are harsh. So he's got no feedback, goes with a user ID starting with "joey", and thinks the way you sell a crawler is to blow yellow paint on everything (including the broken off pieces of the sprocket shields) and then overprice it. Everybody's got to start out somewheres. Me, I'm going t...

John,

Didn't you say in a post back around end of September that you had bought a bunch of the timing windows for $4 each?

Bill

Look at it on the bright side Lavoy. If there is one thing on a 1010 that should be relatively easy to find, it should be injector pump parts.

Now you know why it followed you home. It might of been melted down by this point if you hadn't happened along.


Bill

I finally got the mandrel fabricated to make the PVC version of the tool. The problem I was having was that the PVC was too slippery and too flexible to chuck in my lathe chuck. The mandrel is solid aluminum and is fitted to my collet chuck. The two o-rings give it the grip to permit turning. http:/...

Does sort of remind me of the joke where one guy says he got a new dog for his wife and the other guy replys "I wish I could make a trade like that!" While I'm still alive, I do have a question. Lavoy, what the H@#$# where you thinking buying another 1010C? Isn't your life interesting enough without...

I went ahead and posted your pictures into the message. http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/bigeasy03/JD%20Crawler/JDtrackloader003.jpg http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/bigeasy03/JD%20Crawler/JDtrackloader002.jpg http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n11/bigeasy03/JD%20Crawler/JDtrackloader001...

I have found the guys at Wengers to be well meaning but a bit uninformed when it comes to the older crawlers. To Lavoy's point, the price sure looks like the aftermarket 350 stuff which is fine if you can find the 350 sprocket rims and have somebody that knows what they're doing cut the rims off you...

Wow, he may be to the point where he doesn't need a plane to go flying :wink: Well, I've contended for a long time that there wasn't really all that much difference between the technologies of an airplane and a manure spreader. I suppose by the time you've become the crawler master, the world starts...

Here's one of the posts I was thinking of earlier where Lavoy outlines the interchangeability of the undercarriages. Lavoy's the man when it comes to this stuff. He might be the man when it comes to everything else too but I haven't had him up flying yet. http://www.jdcrawlers.com/messageboard/viewt...

John,

There's a bunch posted on the board here on the topic but the short answer is yes. It's basically the same track.

Bill

Jupiter, Welcome to the board! It might be easier for you on this first time for posting a photo if you email it to me and let me post it for you. My email address is wwattson@wi.rr.com. I will walk you through the process of posting more pictures in the future and we can put a copy in the Board Ann...

Chuck, It's turned from a piece of 2-1/2" Schedule 80 pipe so the I.D. is 2.323". It's really plenty stiff and I would guess it would easily survive 100 or so seal installs with little trouble. The cost of the PVC pipe is a small fraction of the cost of an equal diameter rod. I wanted to try to keep...

Finally got around to turning one out of PVC. I think it will work fine for the occasional final drive rebuilder. Actually had the thing launch out of the lathe and didn't even scratch it. Here's some pictures. http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t203/wwattson/DSCI0023.jpg http://i161.photobucket.com...

Eric, I think so long as you get it nice and cherry red and try not to make up the entire amount of twist in a short length but rather along the whole length at the bottom of the lever, you should be fine. The problem comes in trying to bend it with no heat. At cherry red the metal takes on an almos...