Hey, Ben here with ConEquip 101 with Jeff who's going to be installing rubber
tracks on a compact track loader.
I'm Jeff from Bobcat of Buffalo, today we're gonna take off a rubber track and
install a new one on a T650. For this job you're probably gonna need a... just
any ratchet will work. You don't have to have a long extended ratchet.
A 7/16, a 3/8 and a 9/16. With the 7/16 let's take out the grease fitting if you had to
because the grease fitting is actually a pressure fitting too and if
it's not holding you want to change it. 3/8 will break that bleeder valve free
and the 9/16 is... most bobcat's is the covers on all the tracks.
Excavators are metric. You'll need a good pry bar maybe two pins or pipes that are
heavy enough to break the idler free. And a battery-powered grease gun is
recommended. It's a lot less strenuous. You want to make sure with a machine this
size that you have good jack stands and jacks. We have the 5 ton jack and this 2
little jack stands are like 3,000 pounds apiece and the bigger ones I think are
10,000. And the most important thing you need is a good buddy and a couple gatorades!
First we would have jacked it up put it on jack stands and next what
we're gonna do is remove the cover from the adjustment cylinder and remove the
grease.
There you'll see a grease fitting in here and a pressure fitting. This is
your grease fitting, the smaller one. And the bigger one is actually like a brake
bleeder. It'll bleed the grease out then all the grease will come out of this
bleeder and now we can use the machine's hydraulics. Place two pins in to press
the idler wheel in and you can actually use these pins to help walk the track
off.
And we're gonna get it off the sprocket and the rear idler. Just use your pry bar.
Go up under the lips of the teeth and get the track to walk out. Get it to come
under the rear idler. Now it's ready to come right out.
That's getting the old one off. The bigger track I'll get help. We'll get it close, then
the first thing you want to get to the back up I'm of this rocket and then work
backwards.
We can start centering it up on the front. Got to get it started a little ways before you can use
the pins to help. What we're trying to do is get those teeth get beyond the frame
so they don't hook while it's trying to use the machine's power. Okay now if you put
these pins back in use the machines power.
And now we're ready to clean up this old grease get all that out of there and
retighten our bleeder valve and pump it up with grease. Now older machines like
this you can use an auto greaser or electric grease, battery-operated. Newer ones have
a specific pressure so you have to look. The little fitting like that you can,
this grease fitting here, you can use an auto or battery-powered grease gun and
this is one of the battery powers grease guns you can use but check your service
manual or owner's manual it'll explain if you can or can't use a auto degreaser
because the newer style machines have a specific pressure for that greaser
and you can hurt it and it will cause your tracks the leak and they'll fall off.
You can see it's already starting to move the track around it'll push that
front idler out until we have about 9/16 between the bottom roller in the middle
and the track. And again, all books will have the distance here. Each machine may
have its own specific always check your manual and I'll show you wait in the
track section for that specific side. A new track you don't want to over-tighten
them because they will stretch and stretch in and you'll have to retighten
them again. Then always clean the excess grease out of here that way if for some
reason one of these is leaking you can always tell. That way if your track
starts to loosen up on the end you don't know why
check this or the front seals in your adjusting cylinder. And then we'll cover
this door back up make sure all these doors go back on or it'll wreak havoc in
them cylinders you get more dirt in there the less easy it is for that stuff to
move. This cover usually have two bolts one snapped off on this customer.
That's that now we can drop it down and be done.
I'm Jeff from Bobcat of Buffalo and that's how you dismount and mount a new
track and on T650. Thanks for joining us hope you learned something.