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Welded track pins

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37 chief

06-06-2007 22:06:05




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Is there any reason someone would weld all the track pins both sides. I guess I can forget having the bushings turned. This is on a AC model M. I purchased this tractor a few years back. I have more tracks, but seams like a waste to get only 1/2 use from the set of tracks. Stan




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jdemaris

06-07-2007 06:48:25




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 Re: Welded track pins in reply to 37 chief, 06-06-2007 22:06:05  
We often did that at our shop. Quite often when you do a pin-and-bushing job, or turn pins and bushings, and track has been done once before, everything fits too loose. If you don't weld them in at that point, they fall out. So, you weld them in, and then when it gets worn out again, it's scrap.



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37 chief

06-07-2007 13:04:37




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 Re: Welded track pins in reply to jdemaris, 06-07-2007 06:48:25  
I just thought it was kind of unusual to do this, as I had never seen this done before. Of all the times Dad had had this done, and the few times I had it done, I haver seen a pin come out. I guess it is better to be safe than sorry. Just a side note: As the story goes Dad's cousin turned all the pins and bushings with a sludge hammer. This was about 60 years ago. Stan



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jdemaris

06-08-2007 06:32:45




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 Re: Welded track pins in reply to 37 chief, 06-07-2007 13:04:37  
We had many that would fall out without welding. Most tracks we did were Deere, but we sometimes did other brands if we had drivers to fit the bushings. It used to be very common to just turn the pins and bushings the first time the track got worn. If you've ever used a track press, you'd be aware of all the chips of steel that break out of the track chains when pressing old bushings out. So, when a set a tracks have been already turned once, and then come back for a second track job - for new pins and bushings - they'd often get pretty sloppy and there were no way to keep them in unless welded. And then there's the added problem of worn tracks that have had one link cut out to make them fit tighter.

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RAB

06-06-2007 23:13:37




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 Re: Welded track pins in reply to 37 chief, 06-06-2007 22:06:05  
To prevent them coming loose?



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