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670G. How bad is this...

Tyler Cohrs

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Replacing the carrier rollers today and noticed this issue with the track chain. How does one go about repairing this?
 

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Tyler d4c

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But judgong off the photo there new rails are probably the correct long term repair. Prehaps the bushing could be welded to the link for temperary repair
 

Shimmy1

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Prehaps the bushing could be welded to the link for temperary repair
Only to get it across the lot to a spot to wrap the new rails....

Those rails are beyond any sort of half-ass duck tape/baling wire patch job. They were done 1000 hours ago.

Furthermore, I cannot imagine how the rest of the machine was treated by someone that would run it until the rails reached the point of almost being immobile.
 

Welder Dave

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That's a big machine! Not many outfits with a machine that size that wouldn't have done the undercarriage a long time ago. Hope they have deep pockets, it won't be cheap but needs to be done.
 
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