John C.
Senior Member
CMark, Thanks for the post
If you look at the D6T in the video you will notice it has the relieved tread on all the idlers. Problem I had with the relieved tread is that there isn't a generally accepted way to measure the wear on it. I haven't been with the Cat dealer in a couple of years now so haven't had direct access to past histories of how it has been working. The operator on the machine in the video said that machine hadn't had any undercarriage problems in the approximately 3,700 hours on the machine. They did have problems on a prior "R" model. I thought this machine was showing more wear than I would have expected for that amount of hours but I didn't measure it to make sure. This is a dump site and that machine pushes spoil from excavations in the greater Seattle area. Do you know if all the dozers got the relieved idlers?
If you look at the D6T in the video you will notice it has the relieved tread on all the idlers. Problem I had with the relieved tread is that there isn't a generally accepted way to measure the wear on it. I haven't been with the Cat dealer in a couple of years now so haven't had direct access to past histories of how it has been working. The operator on the machine in the video said that machine hadn't had any undercarriage problems in the approximately 3,700 hours on the machine. They did have problems on a prior "R" model. I thought this machine was showing more wear than I would have expected for that amount of hours but I didn't measure it to make sure. This is a dump site and that machine pushes spoil from excavations in the greater Seattle area. Do you know if all the dozers got the relieved idlers?