putting pin back in a track

Hi Rod , Did you back the track adjuster off to take the tension off the chain ?.You may need to take some track plates off to get a good hit on the pin ,with a good BIG sledge hammer ..Line it up as good as you can and put blocks of timber accross on the other side of the track chain to brace it and try and take the recoil out when you hit it ..If it does not move after a couple of well placed hits , ,you may be better off driving it out to inspect the pin to see why it is not going back in .

ianoz,

thank you for the suggestions, I hadn't thought about taking the plates off, but will do that for sure.. I had thought about taking some tension off of the track, but hadn't done that yet..

is there any particularly "better" place where i should have the pin?? on the front idler, for example??

rod

Some say Idler ,others say sprocket . Myself depends if your right handed or left handed as to which way your more comfortable at swinging the Big hammer .

I contacted Milton Cat once recently about a service call. fore one days service call it totaled about $1100 by the time you added travel time, mileage, and field time. :jaw::jaw:

HI RDITZ For putting back the pine in track the best place is back sprocket and live the pad on because the link will open and the pine will skyse in link and with a hydrolic jack you push on the bottom pad until you have a good pine enlignment

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Definitely back off the track adjuster first or you'll probably never get that pin to go back in. I'd guess that pin came out to the outside. My favorite place to work with 'em is on the sprocket. Brace the back link with something solid so it can't move (I use a 24 ton hydraulic jack). Pads on or off is a matter of choice if you have a chunk of something long enough to drive the pin with.

OR. .you could finish driving the pin out and replace it with a new master pin. I have several 1/32-1/16" undersized pins that I use as slave pins. Put it back together with a slave pin, then drive the new master pin in while at the same time pushing the slave pin out. Also a couple of big clamps can come in handy to pull some slack between the links in the chain.

If it came loose once, it'll probably do it again so a little dab of weld might be in order.