1959 440ICD

[frsanford]

Lavoy,
After a short hiatus, I have been reunited with the 440ICD I traded away a year ago.
I had gotten frustrated with it as I kept throwing the tracks even after busting my butt on new clutches, bearings and seals in both Final Drives and putting on new JD 350 sprockets (re-rimmed to my old 440 centers), new front axles too. And the 350 chains and rails were 95%.

I then read in one of the older posts NOT to re-rim if I had the deep dish sprockets...I am not sure if I do or dont, but if I do, would that cause the chains to walk off the machine under a heavy bucket load during a 90 degree turn coming out of the pile????
I hope I didnt do all that work for nothing.
Getting ready for round 2.

Thanks for your advise on getting me this far and for getting me back to your discussion forum.

Dale

[Lavoy]

If the crawler should have deep dish sprockets, then that is the ones you should have rimmed. I am assuming you have a loader? If so, do you have counterweights on it?
Lavoy

[frsanford]

Lavoy,
Yes I do have counterweights even though they werent on it when I got it.I found a set locally.
I dont have a photobucket account, but if you go to youtube -"Pushing dirt in Americas hometown"
and
"Still pushing dirt in americas hometown" you can see that while building my daughter a house in the back 40 she filmed the 440 in action.
I am at a loss as to what may be happening with the tracks.

Thanks for your input.
Dale

[Lavoy]

As long as the front idler bushings are tight, and the flanges are in good shape on the rollers, I would normally blame it on pins and bushings.
Lavoy