Rock Guards

[panicbutton]

My new to me 350B Wide track doesn't have rock guards, are they really necessary? Do they help from throwing tracks? Does anybody know of any place that sells them besides the dealer? I've call about 10 yards with no luck...

Thanks-

[mjl1369]

This guy is in fla. 863-419-0191 ask for rich he found me some hard to get parts and is very prompt with shipping! Mike Lavender '65 350 Dozer 152 cuin. gas motor!

[panicbutton]

Thanks for the info, I'll call him on Monday.

[jdemaris]

This guy is in fla. 863-419-0191 ask for rich he found me some hard to get parts and is very prompt with shipping! Mike Lavender '65 350 Dozer 152 cuin. gas motor!

Where the heck did a 152 gas motor come from? I've never seen one in a Deere.

[Tigerhaze]

My new to me 350B Wide track doesn't have rock guards, are they really necessary?

I don't know if this advice applies to the 350 series, but Lavoy and others on here have stated on earlier models such as the 1010s/2010s that the rock guards not only keep rocks out of the rollers but alos provide additional structural support to the trackframe.

[CatD8RII]

Tigerhaze is right, that quotation is in the 350's O&M manual.

[digitup2]

I would say that rock guards aren't always the answer on wide track 350s .when the tracks get worn to the point of skipping out from under the rollers the grouser plates should be sloppy enough to be hitting each other hard do not side hill a wide track dozer or work on Rockie under foot conditions as the deviation will tilt the wider grouser and ware chain bushings excessively.Then you will have this problem and more .Wide tracks add more chain wear over rough terrain and this is taken out on all ground engaged parts on that wide track Crawler .I will only run my wide track in wet boggier mud holes that the other dozer's would get stuck in and when you clean them out after the job is done you will like the open spaces between the rollers a lot better with no rock guards and you don't need to support the track frames on a wide track machine these should not be ran on such terrain as to need support .The main reason for rock guards is so when you have standard track dozer and a blade full of small rocks in push as you drive past the freshly moved rocks and they fall into your standard track chains they don't fall right directly into the chain center and get pushed into the holes with rock guards .Then the sprockets try to punch the rocks through the chains and so on .this isn't a problem that wide track should encounter remember wide track 350 and 450 machines have 8 times the wear of an ordinary dozer in rocky conditions .That would be around 24 dollars per hour track wear alone just for wide tracks If you aren't getting extra don't run it Digitup.

[panicbutton]

This guy is in fla. 863-419-0191 ask for rich he found me some hard to get parts and is very prompt with shipping! Mike Lavender '65 350 Dozer 152 cuin. gas motor!

No luck from them.