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Hi Steve, welcome to the forum. Whereabouts in NY are you?

Oil seals are another thing... I will get those, pressure plate, throwout bearing, clutch fibers, brake band.

Thanks for the input guys.

Lavoy, approx how much for these items? I'll send you an e-mail when I come up with the $$.

That thing is so cool. It looks perfectly natural. The ones that John Deere made to put on John Deere 420 crawlers are an abortion by conparison.

Where I get sideways with guys is when they post a pic of their crawler with deck plate fenders, an alternator, a 12 volt winch, pick whatever add on you want, then they try to tell me and/or the rest of the world that it came that way from the factory. Now hold on just a minute, buster. Are you tr...

An impostor, eh?

Just kidding, another Raymond has to turn up now and then. Didn't think it would happen on a 1000 member site though!

Where did you get those wings? I was actually thinking of fabricating some because it got old fast chasing snow around with a 6' blade with a machine that will push 8' of snow! My dad likes snow piles too, he has a tractor with a truck plow rigged to the loader and stacks up everything from the yard...

I meant wouldn't turn right when I tugged on it. The clutch disengages, I used it like that anyways. I found out if you are under load it steers alright (due to the drag on the non-braking track), either going uphill or pushing snow or jamming the blade into the ground if you start aiming for a tree...

The golden rule of the mechanical world is, "if it's got shiny paint on it, find out what they're trying to hide..."

Took crawler out to plow snow, first time I pulled the lever to turn right it wouldn't go, so I pulled harder and snapped the brake band bolt. http://www.badassmustangs.com/forums/Smileys/default/banging.gif Brake band was shot anyways, and the clutch is weak on that side, so I want to refresh every...

Now's a good time to buy one of those big ass torches that you hook up to a propane tank. I'd start the machine, heat the rearmost pads, move forward a few inches, heat the next ones, etc.

Dan, don't buy a steering lever yet, I have one to get rid of but I don't remember which side it is. I got it from eBay to replace mine but it was wrong because mine has the later offset levers, so I just took the handle off it and fixed mine. You can have it for the cost of shipping and some, Lavoy...

They make a drawbar that goes between the lift arms. You can get chain grab hooks that have a yoke so they'll pin to the drawbar. That is how my dad gets trees around.

Soon we'll have the nutjobs that sign up and post 9/11 conspiracy topics...

If by clips you mean springs on the fingers, they are probably just to keep the throwout bearing from rattling. I'd put them in but if they weren't there I wouldn't give it a second thought.

Trucker Dan wrote:My guess it would cost a small fortune at Deere labor is probably 100.00 + an hour.

Oh, yeah. NorTrax stealerships are wealthier than Bill Gates.

The wear I am thinking about is when the bushing of a link rotates as it sits inside the sprocket teeth. This happens as the chain goes from flat on the ground to curved around the sprocket. If you think of a chain link by itself, it's got a bushing at one end and is open at the other. So whenever t...