I'ver seen and/or participated in changing hundreds if not thousands of track pads over the years and have yet to see any of them "properly torqued" to the rails. The ones I have seen and done have typically been out in the field, miles away from any kind of high tech torque tooling, and considering how many bolts there are on a typical track I don't know of anyone who's gonna take the time to hand torque them all. When it comes time to change them, remember, new bolts are cheap to begin with and even cheaper when you consider the time to try to loosen them)so the best way to remove the old ones is with a torch. Make sure the back side of the pad and the top of the rail where they mate is clean and then bolt them up by hand. Then use the largest air wrench you think is feasible for that bolt size and let it hammer til it stops and then give it about another 10 to 15 seconds. I've never had a pad come loose that I know about. The problems I usually see with loose pads are people using the wrong (ie-regular) bolts instead of track bolts or trying to reuse old bolts. A good heavy duty impact, a compressor with enough CFM to handle that impact and you'll not have any problems with the pads coming loose doing it all by yourself.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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