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- Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:00 am
- Forum: Show & Tell
- Topic: Oh BOY, do I need one of these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26037
Hi, Looks like a modern Struck mini-dozer painted up to look like a Deere. Not that that makes it any less cool, though! I've been thinking about taking an old original Struck (aka the world's most useless dozer) I have kicking around and merging it with an old Deere 110 lawn tractor to make a track...
- Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:49 am
- Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
- Topic: Correct Direction of Track pads
- Replies: 16
- Views: 19889
Hi, If you look closely, you'll see that the Lindemann pads are stamped and have not so much a grouser, but a curl at the extreme end of the pad. The later (and what we'd call normal these days) pads are forged and have a vertical cleat some distance in from the end. The curl on the Lindeman pads wi...
- Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:26 am
- Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
- Topic: Bought a 440ICD as is -- the problems so far
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20412
Ray, So, if you're in 3rd gear and going backwards, then you had to be using the reverser, which is OK. The thing is designed to allow the machine to move itself backwards in any gear - although I don't much like using 5th gear in either direction as it seems way too fast for the tracks to me! When ...
- Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:48 am
- Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
- Topic: Reinstalling Tracks
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5210
Hi , Does it really matter? The paint won't stay onto the pads for long anyway, even for a show machine. So, unless one is sticking the thing inside a museum, I'd opt to leave the entire track ass'y unpainted. Take the rails off, paint the frame and such, and then put the unpainted rails back on. Or...
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:24 pm
- Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
- Topic: New 420 owner, lotsa questions.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6530
Hi, Yes, these things started as 3-roller and they just pulled stuff. Then, they added a light blade, then a heavier one, and 3rd parties started making all sorts of stuff (most of what you see popping up in the upper left of the site is 3rd party goodies). So, the thing grew a 4th roller, then even...
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:10 pm
- Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
- Topic: Bought a 440ICD as is -- the problems so far
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20412
Hi, With the differential style reverser, the clutch packs, the differential gears, and the entire housing that holds the mess together is running as one really fat shaft when in forward. In reverse, the clutches change things and the forward half turns forward, then the tiny differential gears come...
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:18 pm
- Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
- Topic: Bought a 440ICD as is -- the problems so far
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20412
Hi, You should be OK as far as damage you might have caused (not to say that there isn't any previous damage). The thing would have had the clutch packs both in the halfway position, and so acted like a neutral. Sounds like nothing grabbed suddenly, so this should not have hurt anything. The real pr...
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:59 am
- Forum: Show & Tell
- Topic: Excited New 2010 Owner!!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6464
Hi, You mean, they're *not* supposed to do this sort of thing! Heck, I just figured I'd missed the section of the manual where they mention the oil peeing part! :P It's not just the old iron that does this. New stuff is equally happy to pee on you. I have a brand-new JD/Frontier sicklebar mower. Bou...
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:31 am
- Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
- Topic: 420 transmission case
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5568
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:21 am
- Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
- Topic: Bought a 440ICD as is -- the problems so far
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20412
Hi, Sounds like you have the differential-style reverser. These work by using two clutch packs, made of alternating fiber and steel discs (like a motorcycle ot auto trans clutch). One is for forward motion, and the other is for reverse. In between the clutch packs, there is a set of spyder gears. Th...
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:29 am
- Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
- Topic: New 420 owner, lotsa questions.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6530
Hi, Cool! :) As fer as the two valves go, how would you do it with only one and have a double acting cylinder? The modern spool control valves still have two valves inside. It's just that these old girls have two single-acting valves out in the open with control rods to the lever. You can adjust tho...
- Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:38 am
- Forum: Late model JD crawler technical support
- Topic: European 450?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9723
Hi, When I first saw these photos, I thought it was a backhoe unit. I remember a guy that dug farm ponds having a 450 loader/hoe which had tanks that looked like that. However, I wasn't positive, so I said nothing. I mean, the thing is dozer, not a loader, and I never have seen a dozer/backhoe combi...
- Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:58 am
- Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
- Topic: 440icd
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9669
Hi, Well, there were several of those parts in the scrap heap at Disbrow Equipment Co in Pine Plains, NY at one time. Although the building became a specialty coffee roasting operation after my uncle sold it around 1982, the old scrap heap way out back might still be there. ;) The option essentially...
- Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:19 am
- Forum: Show & Tell
- Topic: getting dirty in texas
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20094
Hi, Well, first off, did you have a Pilot's licence for that crawler? Sounds like you needed one! Either that, or *he* needed a Crawler licence instead for that Cessna.... Yep. The headlines: Crawler crashes into Cessna at 1500 feet! You think the story is wierd here, just imagine the story as told ...
- Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:55 am
- Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
- Topic: crawler idenity
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9542