Ah, ok. I see where I went wrong there. You are correct, that bolt is stopping the idler. That bolt holds the wear strip on underneath that lip of the track frame. There should be another bolt say 8 to 10ish inches behind that front one, that holds the rear of that wear strip in place. Many machines have those wear strips welded in place. So you technically can't just remove that bolt. You could, if you welded the wear strip on along the front of it, it's only about 3/4" wide. Then if you got to the point you were going to fix the tracks correctly, you could just nip that weld to bolt a new strip on. Or, there are a couple other ways you might be able to sneak by. You could replace that bolt with a carriage head bolt, which if there is enough wear in the idler bracket, it could slide over the rounded head instead of being stopped up by the hex head on the bolt that's on there. If the tracks are that loose, there's a good chance the idler side bracket is PROBABLY worn enough to slide over a carriage head bolt. If that didn't work, you could use a large drill bit, like an inch or 1-1/8, and basically create a countersink over the bolt hole that would allow you to use one of those tapered head allen head socket bolts to create a flush surface for the idler bracket to slide over (a bolt like pictured above). That could get you by until the tracks are worn enough to take a link out, once the idler bracket is flush or just past the end of the track frame. Welding the front end of the wear strip would be the easiest, if it were mine, and I was in your boat, thats probably what I would do. Let us know how you make out. May have to start a new post, this one is quite a ways down
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