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Lavoy , Stan , Ray , and Chuck . Thanks for all the information on swapping the tracks side to side , When I bought the crawler I did not even notice that the pads were on backwards . I am in the process of getting it home and the weather is not cooperating with the plans so far . On loading the cra...

Duh, never would have thought that , Thanks Chuck . I am slowly relearning the terminology of crawlers again . Dan

Chuck , I was wondering about your statement above about the tracks being on backwards . Now this is what I am wondering about , How can I tell if the chains are on backwards also ? Since I am going to rebuild both final drives I would like to swap the tracks around if I can . I am going to order th...

Byrce , White stuff what white stuff ? :lol: Oh , you mean the snow :lol: We get that here in the winter time . I love it , gives me something to do :P would rather have it then rain . The building in the background is not his shop it is his storage building , his shop has garage doors on it . :lol:...

Since I joined here I have been reading about the 420c series in the posts here . and see there is two distinct types of this crawler . If I read these posts right the late has an oil dipstick on the right side of the engine . What or where is the dipstick on the earlier models , or does it use petc...

I have a 420 crawler , do not know the year as of yet . Dan

I did not notice that . With any luck it will be coming home next weekend . Dan

Thanks , Shinnery . Every board I am on I have trouble with something , this board it looks to be posting photo's :? . Can anyone tell from the picture which blade this crawler has ? I will get better pictures soon as I get it out of where it is at , I am trying to figure out how to load it on a tra...

When I was in the Army we had Arctic training at Camp Ripley , Minnesota . One of the training exercises was to build an Ice bridge (or road) across a lake , this was for the 12B's ,Combat Engineers, they cleared the snow off the ice and cut holes into it , then they would pump so much water an hour...

Let's try this in a new post .

Still can't get it to work . Dan

Hello to the membership of this board . I recently purchased a 420 crawler with a straight blade , it is equipped with five roller track frames and a dual cylinder lift , of course it has its problems one of which is a broken right side final drive case , I now the pinion gear is shot , and the I ha...