On old sleds

[Deere or Nothin']

Hopefully admitting to my mistake here will benefit someone else in the future. I went out to the shop at six o'clock this morning to put a recently aquired used 2/3 cleated track on my '78 Liquifire. I got the track in place, put in the drive shaft and tightened up the three holder bolts on each side, including those nasty top front ones. I put the chaincase cover on, tightened the chain and filled it with oil. I bolted in the suspension which sometimes goes good and sometimes goes bad. This time was bad. Two hours later, I'm ready to tighten the track, right? WRONG!!
Turns out it's a Trailfire suspension complete with the 2" pitch drive sprockets! She's obviously a no-go. I am more than a little embarassed about this deal, but maybe putting it up here will save someone some time in the future.


:blink:

Things I should have done; A-Measured the nipple pitch on the track I took off.
B-Noticed there were more lugs on the sprockets.
And 3-Paid more attention to the fact that the track
I took off had full cleats!

The moral of the story: Take an awfully good look at things before you decide on what you have and the parts you need. Thirty year old sleds may have had multiple owners, and who knows what changes they may have made.

[big danno 1970]

Dont feel bad I did the same thing on a ski whiz just last winter.

[grantnelson00]

I recently installed the track on my 400 backwards. Techinical embarrassment has lots of company on this site.