Digger problem

[Justme]

Does anyone have a Schaeff HR16 or similar (but not a golf).

 

I managed to chuck a track yesterday (rushing).

 

Should be a simple job to take out the grease nipple / bolt & push the idler back in. But the hole that the nipple is i is so small & the bolt so close to the side of the box its in that you can get a spanner on it & the angle stops a socket getting on it. I am guessing that there is a "special" tool to do the job. Poss some thing like a supper slim crows foot spanner on a socket extension.

 

Any ideas?

[dent]

i can't quite understand what you need but i think these might be similiar to what you want there pipe spanners from facom desighned for hydraulic lines

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/0/5/6/7/8/3/webimg/297350703_tp.jpg

[Justme]

Well sorted that problem. The thing that the bolt / nipple mounts in had twisted. Bit of leverage & it was in the centre of the hole so could be got with a socket.

 

I have even managed after mucho struggling to get the wheel to retract about 2 " but it looks like it wont go much further but I still cant get the B track back on.

 

 

Is it best to start at the top or the bottom?

[garth mc garth]

metal or rubber tracked?

[Justme]

Rubber track. With a metal one I would have split it by now.

 

I tried using a large ratchet strap to pull the wheel back, no joy. I even tried driving it into a tree stump but that failed to work as well.

 

In the end I put some steel bars in the track & rotated it till it went round the wheel & the stretch on the rubber pulled the wheel back enough to get it back on. I started on the bottom, putting each idler in it right place on the lower track & then levering & rotating the track & it popped on.

 

Lost a full day trying to sort it out. Also had to go get a new end for the grease gun as the grease kept coming out the nozzle & not tightening up the track. Have done the other side too & all the other grease points for good luck.

[smiles]

Done the same myself,ratchet strap to retract it fully and stick a bar in and drive the track slowly round while the machines up on the arm and the blade ! very lively as the bar comes around the idler - often wondered what the correct way of doing it is?

[Justme]

I think most use the bucket on bigger diggers. On mine it wont even get close to it. So I guess a 10" log about 3 or 4 foot long in the bucket will do it. Next time I will try it. Not that there will be a next time lol.