1/16 Oliver Dozer Conversion

[Rvjimd]

Anyone ever find a good way to reduce the dirt pack between the track pads on a crawler machine?

I know this is common, I have tried waxing the pads and I think that helps for a bit.

Also, when I run on extremely dry dirt there is almost NO problem. But, if the dirt Has a little moisture in it the leading AND trailing edges get the dirt packed on them causing the pads to heave away from each other. The biggest trouble this causes my machine is that it becomes hard to blade a nice even level grade cause the track start to get a round curve to them and the entire machine will rock fore and aft while moving forward. This makes holding the blade constant very tricky.

Anyhow, I'm just thinking out loud and....

This is just after cleaning


Here is a shot from the back, showing the bevel gears and you can see the bushing I had to make to fit the new motors.


Side view of one of the new motors installed. The bushing hides the gearbox section of the gearmotor


Jim

[Rvjimd]

Video of the little Oliver working the sand pile at the barge dock.

https://youtu.be/W7rCP09_O5U

Jim