Posted by andy r on April 08, 2013 at 21:00:47 from (75.91.149.15):
Thanks for all of the ideas about getting my track back on. Finished it up Sunday afternoon. Here is what I ended up doing. I thought the tightener was pretty much all of the way back already so I didn't bother to take the plug out to dump the grease. I jacked the side up and blocked the back under the drawbar then jacked towards the front to finish lifting the side rail. I didn't lift it too far, just enough for the track to pass under the rock guards and rollers. Then I pony motored the left rear sprocket inorder to get some more slack to work with up front. Using a pry bar I lifted little by little the track up onto the top two rollers. It was still on the rollers but no where in the right grooves. Then with the pry bar I did the same with the front idler. First onto the edge, then up onto the raised portion. Nothing moves very fast, but I knew I was making headway when I had it on a good portion of the top of the idler. Then maybe a couple of jerks with a tractor and chain pulling the track forward to get more slack. Then a couple of jerks pulling the track somewhat forward but now also sideways pulling the track across the idler. Nothing hard, just jerks. This stuff is heavy and it seemed like cable pullers had limited benefit. Then I backed the tractor up to the side of the dozer and chained to the track and pulled it outward in three places. The front "popped" into place on one of these pulls. Lowered the dozer and everything fell into place. Got the grease gun and pushed the idler outward tightening the track. Toughest part of doing this was jacking. Started with a 20 ton bottle jack. The ground wanted to swallow the jacks. Took a 4 foot long by 1 foot wide piece of oak to support the jack. Fortunately a neighbor had a jack powered off of a tractor hydraulic system. Made jacking much easier. Learned that the problem can be solved, but honestly I don't want to do it again!!!
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