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[northern wheeler]

I bought a 1967 tucker 443, got it running and driving. I am wondering what lubricant to use on the rear 5th wheel channels.

 

[redsqwrl]

I bought a 1967 tucker 443, got it running and driving. I am wondering what lubricant to use on the rear 5th wheel channels.

Keep them dry is what i was told by many vintage people.
If they pick up crud it sticks to the grease and works on and wears everything faster. (This just the channels)
for the pin
i use a clear/white grease spec'd for roller bearings. (I can find its spec when i get back )

I got lectured pretty good about grease a few years ago at the midwest cat clowder in bessemer mi. Hard rock, cold climate mining has learned a thing or two about lubricants and moisture.

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[northern wheeler]

Keep them dry is what i was told by many vintage people.
If they pick up crud it sticks to the grease and works on and wears everything faster. (This just the channels)
for the pin
i use a clear/white grease spec'd for roller bearings. (I can find its spec when i get back )

I got lectured pretty good about grease a few years ago at the midwest cat clowder in bessemer mi. Hard rock, cold climate mining has learned a thing or two about lubricants and moisture.

AND WELCOME!
THERE is a great bunch of snowcat people and and even more lurkers.
The meta dopamine hits are not here but you are.

Thanks, but mine doesn't have rollers, it has hard plastic blocks running in the channels. If you have a link for new rollers I'd like to switch to rollers instead of sliders.

 

[Don Coyote]

....................... Should I assume that the pic is NOT the machine you're referring to?

(And BTW..... I am in the process of manufacturing a few dozen rollers, ... but not enough to outfit a single machine, complete).

 

[Don Coyote]

Hey sqwrl....... didn't you tell me, once upon a time, that you have THREE Tuckers?

......... How about some pics?

(They're not green,..... are they?)

 

[northern wheeler]

It is the machine in the pic, 1967 tucker, but has plastic blocks instead of rollers, would like to have 3 rollers instead of 3 plastic blocks.

 

[Don Coyote]

The frame more closely resembles a 442, like mine. Someone sure did a number on this thing.

Well,..... git yer elbows in it and whip 'er into shape. It's gonna start snowin' any minute, now.

 

[northern wheeler]

The frame more closely resembles a 442, like mine. Someone sure did a number on this thing.

Well,..... git yer elbows in it and whip 'er into shape. It's gonna start snowin' any minute, now.

It's a 443A. And it's almost ready to go, waiting on a radiator and some very expensive plastic slider material. Both will be here next week, after then just waiting for snow.

 

[redsqwrl]

It's a 443A. And it's almost ready to go, waiting on a radiator and some very expensive plastic slider material. Both will be here next week, after then just waiting for snow.

The tag is 443a.

But what folks are alluding to is you possibly have 1642 tracks and carriers on a 443a machine.

 

[northern wheeler]

The tag is 443a.

But what folks are alluding to is you possibly have 1642 tracks and carriers on a 443a machine.

Possibly, I have never had one before. But I'm talking about the rear 5th wheel not the tracks.

 

[Don Coyote]

This is what your cat looked like, back in the day. This is a 443a.

Yours has been creatively modified.

 

[redsqwrl]

Well if you have 443 turn tables leave the side grooves dry.

 

[Pontoon Princess]

It is the machine in the pic, 1967 tucker, but has plastic blocks instead of rollers, would like to have 3 rollers instead of 3 plastic blocks.

the slider blockers are correct not rollers if I understand what you have, good luck stay orange and tucker on