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All is well north. The plantings on the bank I did from Irene did their job no erosion. Some new sand deposits. Only lost some steps that needed to be replaced with the granite sitting here for years.

Not looking very wintery though.

Gondola is in its permanent home now.

Please send sno!
 

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Gondola is in its permanent home now.

Please send sno!
 

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Back to New England and cold weather !

Didn’t get much done in Disney other than new U bolts.

My rear table is tied up for a bit. Long sad tragic story with my friend whose shop it is at. This is really the key to assembly and forward motion. Figure about a month till snow if lucky

Gong to try and rebuild one of my other spares for plan b. Have plan C lined up also. Good time to test my home shop mill skill. Will pick the Tucker bone yard tomorrow for a specimen.
 

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Got the drag pulled up today and some tree cutting trail maintaining. Added some drain holes so the water doesn’t pool. That is what caused the bolts to fail. Two new 1/2 grade 8 bolts and back in action.

Found a useable table out back. Two spring holes needed to be opened up to 1” and bushed back to 5/8 with high impact oilite bronze bushings. Other side is good.

Had to get a reamer to open up the tie rod taper for the larger tie rod ends I have.

This week will set the table and boring bar up in mill and open the center pivot up to 2 1/2” then use a bronze oilite bushing to bring it back down to 2”. Drill and tap new grease fitting then a little cosmetic welding paint and install.
 

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Not bad for my first pass at machining a turn table.

Had to open up rear spring bolt holes to 7/8 to clean up. Bronze bushing bring back to 5/8.

Pivot came out to 2.250 to clean up the wear. Bronze bushing on way to bush back to 2”.

Few signs of snow falling today !
 

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Welded up he wear from the upper table smoothed out. Welded stripped grease zerk for pivot. Will drill and retap once bushing is installed.

Waiting on a reamer to go from the old style small to newer large. It’s a 7 degree 1.5” but larger diameter. Automotive 1” commonly available bottoms out and can’t get tie rod up far enough.

3 old roller bolts came right out. New exterior flange bolts and UHMW sliders being installed. Quick change style.

Bushings should be on this weekend. At this pace should set the Tucker table right around Thanksgiving.

Starting to look like winter up north!
 

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Happy one year Anniversary running myself over. Thanks for the leg cake!
Same group of people tonight no ambulance rides yet......

Table all done paint starts tomorrow.

Bushings all turned and pressed in. New grease zerk threaded for pivot. New UHMW sliders.

Moving along.
 

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If any of you have to go from the smaller style taper tie rod end to the larger this is the reamer. 7 degree 1.5” per foot.

Automotive ones for gm/Dana only go up to 1” which you need to use first. Then you need one with 1 1/8” large end to finish. Just over 1 1/6 is the size to grab nut and cotter.
 

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Keeping the wife happy preparing for the holiday and spending time with the kids tonight.

We fit the 2015 Model J. Tucker with some new shoes for the sno season. Didn’t want to take the “dee boot” off so fit is good.

Once we put that Tucker to bed Team Brix2 headed out to do our assigned chore. She told us “make sure you two set the table for Thanksgiving”.

Table is definitely set now!

Happy Thanksgiving
 

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Rare Model 43A TUCKER SNONO CAT
 

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Winter getting closer. Knocked the dust off the snow sticks today.

Tucker orange bench accent very fitting. Not bad other than my loader helper kin might have left a ski or two 100 miles behind?
 

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This Tucker has good bones Bri JR built
 

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We are mentally in winter mode here in the east. Great weekend with the family getting our ski legs. Modern snow making is a blessing. 50’s people were golfing down below in the valley.

Heard another Tucker up north has black pontoons finally which may or may not be on?

J. Tucker and I were left home alone this afternoon and could not muster up any adult help so we tackled the rear end oursleves quite successfully!

On track for carrier install Wednesday...
 

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My glass guy working on the windows that were cracked when I got it. We go though windshields regularly at work so he’s happy to assist my personal project glass needs.

Also had to order some new 3/8-24 wheel studs. Stock the dodge axle flanges use a 1.25 long stud with a star that presses in. The factory conversion must have called for a modified bolt with one hex ground to fit to get to the needed 1.5 inch. Problem is nothing holds them so they are a pain to secure when installing the carrier. They were caulked in place messy and ghetto.

Found that Polaris makes a 3/8-24 wheel stud various lengths so I ordered these so they can be held in by the star fit. Much better than adhesive. Will have to cut but will be correct. Must not have been better solution in the 70’s?

Ordered a Yakima axe, shovel, and jack mount for the rack courtesy of cyber Monday .
 

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My glass guy working on the windows that were cracked when I got it. We go though windshields regularly at work so he’s happy to assist my personal project glass needs.

Also had to order some new 3/8-24 wheel studs. Stock the dodge axle flanges use a 1.25 long stud with a star that presses in. The factory conversion must have called for a modified bolt with one hex ground to fit to get to the needed 1.5 inch. Problem is nothing holds them so they are a pain to secure when installing the carrier. They were caulked in place messy and ghetto.

Found that Polaris makes a 3/8-24 wheel stud various lengths so I ordered these so they can be held in by the star fit. Much better than adhesive. Will have to cut but will be correct. Must not have been better solution in the 70’s?

Ordered a Yakima axe, shovel, and jack mount for the rack courtesy of cyber Monday .
 

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Polaris bolts fail. Used adhesive to help hold bolts in place.

Carriers on and lubricated. Defiantly took a bunch of cant out compare to prior.
 

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Few steps back. Little wear I didn’t account for.

Need to take up about .030” on carrier retainer so friend going to cut some shims. That lets sprocket move that much closer to carrier hitting.

As for the sprockets for whatever reason they need shims against the hub to clear. It’s almost .250. This is the hack solution that was on it. Going to cut some nicer ones and extras to adjust if the bearing tape starts to wear.

Seems like the sprockets are 1/4” too wide on the inside which may or may not be due to the prior to me replacement or recover?

Only .030 is worn on end cap so either the axle shrunk or the sprocket got bigger.
 

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Screw it- water jet a fresh shim plate of the thickness you need to clean up that 'work of art' and run it. I'm guessing that by the time you need to worry about that bearing tape, you will have two willing, able, strapping lads that can do the job while you provide guidance from your chair drinking a beer! To make sure I'm reading it correctly, the sprockets appear to be a quarter inch to thick on the inside (toward carrier). Can't those be flipped around like other cats to promote even wear of the teeth? Or is the sprocket actually a half inch (overall) to thick?
 

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Laser cut stainless on the way. 4 x 1/4" hub spacers and some additional shims to add on top of those if need be.

Bunch of stainless shims to get to .030 or more if need for the other one.

The way the sprocket is built it has an offset so only goes on one way. Thought maybe the removable rings that bolt on the the core could be backwards but negative.
 

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This Masshole was out here a few times today. Was reading lots of missed posts on “bringing your treasure home” looked at the missing window then realized I missed the Glassholes were filled.
 

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Changing some fluids and greasing some joint.

Aligned the turn tables and hooked linkage back up.

Transmission was way overfilled. Drained the frothy 80/90 latte’. Tucker sure made it easy to remove fluid. Not so much putting back in.
PIA!

Gear oil pump is an essential tool.
 

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Diff, transfer, and tranny freshly fluided.

Had to use a few custom shims to set the axle end play even left
to right and close to early dodge 8.75 spec. Lots of end play either by design or wear. Wanted to try and take the carriers off again anyway.

Hope to have spacers by weekend for sprocket and track install.
 

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Every good Tucker needs and axe and a shovel.
 

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