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Post by gregg86n on May 8, 2012 3:49:46 GMT -8
Adjusting the tracks on your dozer should be easy. First relax the tracks to a position that has the most slack. There should be either a round or square cover near the top outside of the track carriage. Be sure to clean the area around the cover well before you remove the cover. Or dirt will fall into the oil. You need a large straight edge to place on the track itself to measure the track droop between the straight edge and the flat of the track pad. Inside that cover you will find a zerk fitting. Pump up the track until you get the slack out. Don't over tighten the track!! A tight track is worse than a loose track!!. The way you can tell if you have a tight track is when you turn or put alot of pressure on the track, the track will pop. If you need to loosen the track, loosen the zerk just a bit until grease starts to come out. CAUTION!! Do not remove the zerk all the way!! That bad boy will shoot out like a bullet and take your eye out!!! You should be able to find the information you need in the operators or the maintenance manual. Or maybe Cashman can fax it to you.
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Post by gregg86n on May 8, 2012 3:52:26 GMT -8
Heck, I'm home tonight. Maybe I'll come and see you guys. Can anybody buy this poor broke trucker a beer?
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Post by rooster73 on May 8, 2012 7:37:41 GMT -8
I'd buy you a pitcher if you want...................see ya there.
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Post by rlloyd36n on May 8, 2012 7:48:32 GMT -8
I appreciate the info. However, the adjustment on the tracks is good. Some of the bolts that hold the individual tracks on are loose. I just need to tighten them. I tryed to tighten them with a hand wrench, but couldn't get them to turn. I need to take my compressor and air impact driver wrench out there and try it.
4 am in the morning? Trucker hours. They're tough. I tryed it for a while. I couldn't hang.
Ya. Come to the meeting tonight. I'll buy you a beer, and a pizza. Or I should say, the club will. For all your great help and service to the club in the past. We really appreciated it and miss you. You unselfishly contributed alot in the past and had invaluable skills.
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Post by larry63r on May 8, 2012 14:38:53 GMT -8
  Here are the only two pictures that came out using my cheap $20 camera. Jesse loved the track! |
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Post by 542 on May 9, 2012 5:56:01 GMT -8
I would love to ride, anywhere! Planned on going out there yesterday. But I've being having medical issues lately. James doesn't want to ride unless I do.  . Hope to be better soon. Funny tho, some get invited some don't, some know where this secret track is some don't. Most know who's house it's at but no invite or actual location. Sounds like a "Club" thing but seems to be a click thing. In the past I've asked "what's up with that" and been answered "you have to be invited". At club meetings it's always discussed but the location remains secret. Probably shouldn't discuss your good times at club meetings if it's a click deal. Just keep it to yourselves. |
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Post by rlloyd36n on May 9, 2012 10:29:58 GMT -8
Its not a click deal. But it is on private property and its not open to the public. That's why its invite only.
Want to go out there with me some time?
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Post by jbrown62r on Jun 20, 2012 7:16:46 GMT -8
Sooo... Back on topic of track design.
I've noticed that most tracks have at least one or maybe two things that all the guys in the pits are talking about. I think the East track has the willow jumps, step up and used to have a dragon back. Guys always seem to chat about the deep sand also.
The west track used to have some really deep sand that got whoops in it, and the nice bermed corners.
I'd like to do somethings that are worth chatting about in the pits. This usually means putting in something controversial or worthy of discussion.
How about :
a off camber rutted corner.
a big hip jump corner(with a spectator tunel in it
Maybe a few double/table tops like what Ty builds nice safe landings but you still gotta jump a little
Maybe a really fast section 5th gear pinned, lets see what a 450 can do.
Love to see a good section of big sand whoops. Kinda like the roads to the north of the track
Supercross whoops...not my favorite, but I'm not the only one riding the track
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Post by larry63r on Jun 21, 2012 16:10:11 GMT -8
Check out some of the videos of the Pala vet track.and the Carlsbad retro track at The Ranch. They are perfect examples of how a track can be safe, fast and fun without having any "do or die" sections on it. We need to focus on what we have that no other track has, SAND. The sand should be the outstanding obstacle of our track, just like Southwick. Every track in the country can try to build a bigger jump but only a very special few can have a deeper sand track. Every year the national riders say that MX 338 is the toughest track on the schedule and it has the fewest jumps of all the tracks. It is the sand that makes it great. Everyone always talks about how good Hangtown was when it was in Plymouth compaired to how it is now at Prairie City. Plymouth was a sand track with few jumps and Prairie City is a hard pack track with jumps all over it.. I say prep the track for deep sand and let it get rough like a good old fashioned MX track should. Did you like Honey Lake better when it was a natural terrane track or do you like it better now with all the jumps that Larry put on it? I liked it much better when it was natural.
Do you think the riders would like Mammoth better if they plowed it flat and built a bunch of SX jumps on it? I don't. I think that the draw to Mammoth is the natural terrane that the track uses and the fact that they don't change the track very much. How would you feel if you went to Mammoth this year and they got rid of the tree corner and put in a corner jump to replace it? Would you be happy if they changed the start so it doesn't go up the hill anymore? I would be pissed off.
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Post by jbrown62r on Jun 21, 2012 19:59:17 GMT -8
good point on the sand. Rip it deep and let it whoop out. I love deep sand whoops
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