i have been worried about this. mine has the early narrow drive cogs making the problem even worse. guess i better keep the tracks nice and tight.
Your machine must have parts that were laying around the shop hence the early drive sprockets and your machine a very late build. Do you know if your machine went in to be refurbished at the factory? I have the early sprockets on my Kt-3 and the later ones on my Kt-4.
The KT3 with 4 wheels and walking tracks dose detrack. The 5 wheel model with ridged mounted to beam has never detracked. The only way that I found to keep it from doing this was to go 35psi in all tires and tighten the tracks up to only about two inches of lift off of the center of track. If it starts to de-track again lm thinking of making the 4 wheel ridged mount.
i'm curious, when you run the track that tight does it look like your stretching the hell out of the center belts up by the drive cog? i tightened mine up to the handbook specs with barely 2" of lift in the center and it looks like i might tear a track. might loosen them a turn or so. I guess i'd rather de-rail one then tear it
will do thank for the infowelcome. please install your humor protection module. Kristi owners tend to get a lot of good natured ribbing here. I never heard of yours. Knowing that manufactures tend to reuse stuff, the kt3 manuals may provide some help. http://www.goldcordmine.com/manuals/Kristi/
Good luck and lots of picts as you get it back to the unusable showroom state.
Please start a new thread to chronicle your experiences.
EBAY IS THE BEST SPOT TO SHOP FOR NEARLY EVERYTHINGYour Right it does look like it is stretching the hell out of the track. And throwing a track is much better then tearing one. The cat that throws the track has the early narrow drive cogs that doesn’t have the wide shoulder as the later ones. Between the two cogs I can see a difference as to the way the track follows around it. I’m just saying that this seems to work for us for now. Being in hip deep snow and putting on a thrown track is not my idea of a good day. As I watch Big Al’s Video of him and his Kt3 the walking tires on the rear seems to be off the track at times which makes me wonder is that when it de-tracks? Or is when turning? I also think that the wavy outside track belting may have something to do with it as it would hold the track in place when turning. I like the way you changed yours and thinking of the same.
In other news we have got our cat back together after finding new bearings 30.00 each(2)and double roller chain 15.00(2) each seals 5.00(2) each at Mesa bearing. lots of pictures. One sprocket on the lower end was in bad shape. Bowered one from our rebuild project. Found a 24 tooth double 50 chain Martin sprocket on eBay. Could order one from previse supply 120.00 verse 33.00 EBay won. The machinist is going to work the center out of the new and press in the splined part out of the old one pin it and weld this will put the bowered one back on rebuild project. The brass bushings mike’d out to just under 0.003 on the ID.