argo restore

[curtisbyrne]

Guys I can't wait to get the Argo fully assembled.i miss riding her even tho i haven't even put 1 hour on those new chains so when she's back together I'm going way back in the bush but not before I do lots of checks!

[plott hound]

give the bearings all a good shot of grease while its apart.

[curtisbyrne]

Will do,I can amagine it is easier the put all the axles back in place with no top!

[plott hound]

Will do,I can amagine it is easier the put all the axles back in place with no top!

its a breeze.you can also use little bolts rather then pop rivets to put the top back on.

[john swenson]

good idea about the bolts. also use wing nuts instead of nuts for easy removal. maybe go with a bolt a little larger than a rivet if you have the room on the lip. i believe the ones on my max are 1/4 '' . j.b. bet you have some nice places to ride in newfoundland !!

[curtisbyrne]

Nice idea never thought about using bolts instead of rivets! Yes John 3 min in through the trail behind my house and there is a pond with a nice test ride bog there to mud in! Then you can go for an hour through bog and swampy trail to go to serpentine river where people salmon fish! I went half way in on my 4 by 4 quad last week and had to turn around it was just to many stucks,the only tire track you see in there is Argo tire tracks and there's a reason for that lol,it's some bad holes!
Here's a pic of my girlfriend on her quad in a hole,boy was it hard to get out.

[john swenson]

that's my kind of mud ! beautiful place to ride, you maybe looking for tracks for the argo someday. thanks for the picture. post more as the rebuild progresses. you guys must get alot of snow too. johnboy va.

[curtisbyrne]

i havent been doing much with argo just slowly finishing up bolting the skid plate and stuff like that,yes alot of snow, i would get tracks but do they put alot of stress on the axles becuase only my two rears are new axles and the rest are old and im not sure if they can take the strain from the tracks,what about the 13 inch plastic tracks are they hard on axles?

[curtisbyrne]

Input anyone?

[john swenson]

someone will chime in soon. also if you can't afford a set of tracks ( you may find some used ones ) there are some nice homebuilt designs that can work well,not too hard to fabricate, and don't cost too much. the first set i made worked really well. look under all the tracks, tires and wheel section of this site. some good pictures etc. johnboy va.

[curtisbyrne]

slowly making progress,got 3 axles in place! got to order a couple flanges and gaskets and should be able to get the rest in.cant wait to get the engine and tranny in again so i can start riding.

[Canadian_Zuk]

i havent been doing much with argo just slowly finishing up bolting the skid plate and stuff like that,yes alot of snow, i would get tracks but do they put alot of stress on the axles becuase only my two rears are new axles and the rest are old and im not sure if they can take the strain from the tracks,what about the 13 inch plastic tracks are they hard on axles?

Input anyone?

The 13" plastic Argo tracks are the most forgiving track there is, you should be able to run those on your machine in the snow regardless of what axles you have in it. Your tires will slip inside the track long before there is any windup at all. I've actually been stuck a few times simply becasue my tracks were wet and the tires just spun inside the tracks until the friction eventually dried them up enough for the tires to grab again.

They perform well enough in the snow but the down side to plastic tracks is they really really suck bad on anything hard, like cement, rocks, ice, trailer ramps, roots, etc....on the hard stuff it's like driving a car with cookie sheets under the tires lol.

[curtisbyrne]

so on snow i wont get much strain or excessive bearing or axle wear from those tracks?

[Canadian_Zuk]

No, really nothing to worry about with plastic tracks.

[curtisbyrne]

only the price lol