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1973 Tucker Sno Cat 1443 New to Me

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Roller Plate fabricated.
 

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If you are not careful you are going to end up tied up in the back of an orange Suburban. Only to be released days later at some manufacturing company in Medford.
 

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Rainy fall weekend coming so going to get some lathe time from a Tucker sympathizer. Last hurdle.

Here is final mock up. 1/8 bronze thrust back by pivot. Roller will be turned to fit tight against retainer. Retainer might need to be milled a bit. Once we turn roller OD to have the trunion journals evenly spaced parallel to table can address from there.

Setup should be easily greasable and allow easy wear monitoring and replacement.

Steel parts should not wear with proper car for this cats life.

Speak now if I can improve anything ?
 

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Drilled tapped mounted roller plate.

Bearing taped the carriers nice and tight.
 

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Lookin good T&A. I suggest jacking the frame up so that the weight of the axle is off the ground when you lubricate in the future. That insures that the grease gets to where it needs to be. Same with greasing the pontoon/ track carrier journals. Otherwise the grease tends to go to the unloaded side and not doing what you want it to do. Well thought out fix.
 

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Surely you have something in your stable that is tall enough Boggie? Plan B, wait til it snows ten more feet, then drive over saw.
 

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Surely you have something in your stable that is tall enough Boggie? Plan B, wait til it snows ten more feet, then drive over saw.

I do have one big enough to crush it:thumbup:but the saw is in Joensuu, Finland and I don’t have any there.........
 

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Very pleased with the final product. Parts are hanging primed already.

If the roller starts to wear on either end you can remove the retainer and add bronze shims/washers. Should provide years of trouble free use and service.

https://youtu.be/lojnQ5w_v3M
 

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E.T. had a paint booth just like this?

Self flooding floor keeps the paint from sticking.
 

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Celebrate Orange today!

Let the assembly begin.
 

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Everything but the carrier new paint. Doing in sections.

Carrier and trunion install then table gets paint install then housing and diff paint install then axles and retainers paint install no carrier paint for now.

Can’t leave too many nice painted parts around this cast of characters or shop.
 

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it is Tucker sno cat favorite day, happy halloween,

no treats in owning a tucker sno-cat, just tricks,

buy a snow trac!!! if you want treats

Mr. T.A. nice paint !
 

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Few Tricks and Treats this evening.

Trunion carrier installed.

Finished the axle journals bearing tape and fitting. The passenger side was a little different. There was not as much wear on the outside and somone line bored it. They turned it to take down to the spot where the grease groove did not wear into the carrier. The outer removable journal does not have as much wear either. It looks like it might have been replaced after the line bore which would have tightened up the outside but done nothing for the inside other than squared up the wear surfaces. Possibly this is why there is less and it’s more even. Tucker history mystery.

Caught a pic of one of the oldest and rarest Tucker’s known to exist. A Prehistoic Model J. Tucker
 

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Ran into an interesting assembly snag. The front table that was on it I always questioned. On every tucker I have seen one side of the spring was fixed bolted through the table and the other side was on hangers so is the springs compressed it could lengthen.

This table had either a worn notch from the spring hitting the front of the table as retainers wore and then someone made shorter ones to keep it that way or it was by design.

With this setup as the spring compresses it has no way to lengthen. The old table had also broken and been welded. Doesn't make sense.

When I fit up the current hanger brackets to the table they are not long enough so I go longer ones and now it will look like the back and every other tucker I have seen. Another mystery.

Got some new hangers and going to assemble it like I think it should be.
 

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The last pic is how it was.

You can see that it is locked into the table in the front with no way to move.
 

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Assembly
 

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Here is a chainsaw for those drips
 

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I see the saw Boggie but from the rust on it, you must need a cat what leaks.
Show me the CAT! Bet yours are all litter box trained.
 

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Winter has arrived in the N.H.!

Looks like we are starting with a powder day at Wildcat tomorrow !

That 442 seems to be in the wrong State of mind currently. Prob feels like a real MASShole missing first grousers in November.

There will be a moment of silence in Jackson tomorrow morning.
 

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It’s ok, I think the 442 is enjoying its homecoming for a while. But she does want all of her parts back together soon!


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Sno on the slopes, Tucker’s of yesteryear on the wall, cold beer and the kids.

Winter is back!
 

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