Hello
Is there anyone ho has driveshaft for crawler, the bigger sort and drive wheel for crawler also?, i have chain sprocket wheel!
Long story but i will try to make it short!
Me and my friend has a 580CS that we transported over the ice to our summerhouses on a island just outside of Karlstad in Sweden.
Our tracks were worn out and also splines on one of the driveshafts and drive wheel, to solve this problem(so we thougt) we bought driveshafts.
It was the smaller size that we get are hands on from a farmer outside of Karlstad and we started to modify the bearing houses to fit smaller bearings
The first that happened was that the shaft on one side snapped of inside of chain sprocket wheel after 30mins, so then we modified back to the bigger shaft and wheel and sprocket wheel.
We did only have one sprocket wheel for the smaller shaft so i drilled out a bushing from the large shaft with the splines on it an shrink fitted and welded it.
We monted this and it hold for 30 mins! Then we drilled in the shaft and bushing with hard metal drill and put in 2 backsides of 8mm drills and welded.
This time it held for 2 hours....so now we need to rebuild this shaft again, this time with original size.
This was only the story about the crawlershafts, let me remind you of that we are having the dream machine on a island so it was quite a challenge to get new tracks out to the machine
Now to my question;
Is there anyone ho has driveshaft for crawler, the bigger sort and drive wheel for crawler also?, i have chain sprocket wheel!
Br Tony