A few dozer repairs

[Gavin84w]

Well confirmed it Roly, not available down under.

[Rolyd8k]

on with the new sprocket hub and outer support,but encounted a problem,
new support orderd for next morning meanwhile fitting new sprocket segments.



fitting new support

[John Gaunt]

I just love your workshop pictures in this thread, Roly. I don't think I will ever get tired of them. Guess I'm an aspiring cat mechanic/fitter at heart !
Keep em coming

[Rolyd8k]

I just love your workshop pictures in this thread, Roly. I don't think I will ever get tired of them. Guess I'm an aspiring cat mechanic/fitter at heart !
Keep em coming

Thanks John,here,s Dick giving the end nut that little bit extra and making
sure it dont come loose ,after putting the track on we started
changing sprocket segments on the other side only to find the sprocket hub
badly worn and cracked,so off with it and on with another new one,it would
only have failed later on when we were busy.

[John Gaunt]

How do you make sure that the sprocket segments don't work loose ?
I seem to remember in the workshop when I was a teenager around this equipment something called locktite which was, I think designed to stop nuts from coming loose, is that still in use today ?

[Rolyd8k]

John,when useing new nuts and bolts every time pulled up to the
right torque there never any more trouble,we sometimes use locktite
on bearings (bearinglock)


a little nudge to line it up

[RichardJW~]

Roly, out of interest why do you always run LGP D6s? Not being funny but some of the pics of places I have seen them working seem to be normal site work, not boggy ground, have I missed something?

[Rolyd8k]

Roly, out of interest why do you always run LGP D6s? Not being funny but some of the pics of places I have seen them working seem to be normal site work, not boggy ground, have I missed something?

Richard,running a standard track machine you could be parked up 3 months
of the year, or longer if the job runs on through the winter,i dont like to have
to say sorry cant do the job the grounds to wet,we now run 9 hi-drives and thats
why there all LGP,s ,track wear is no more on dry ground than up to your
neck in shite,on cat running gear were getting 6,000hrs or more,years ago we
had a set of 30" tracks that we swopped over on dry dirt jobs,but more times
than not we had to change back to 36" to keep the hire going and finish the job,
one of the D6RLGP,s that i bought 4 years ago last january has been in work and
to date never payed a visit to the yard

[Joes1989]

Roly,
Great pics of the D8's!
Have you got any pics of your D6 LGP's in action?

Joe

[nick lamb]

I know what you mean about having both std grousers and lgp grousers.It sounds like the best of both worlds but it doesn't really work out.It's nearly allways boggy work and hardly ever standard pad work.In saying that,I've had the standard pads on my D5 for 16 months now as the machine is on the same job but it's the first time it's worked out like that in 20 years!I've allways ran 24'' on my D8's except one time when I bought some 20'' pads.They were no good really and I never bought another set.