tracks and chains

[ArgoNewf]

Read the reply just 2 answers before yours. Your Bigfoot is not the same as a Max2 or 4.

Thanks, i seen the reply, but it just stated that he never seen anyone remove the front chains. Not that it isn't possible, or that no one does it.

[ArgoNewf]

Thanks just reread all the posts.

[john swenson]

deedee...take off the back chains and head to busco !! have fun.....j.b.

[Deedeelin1]

JohnBoy, Scott/John and 1 other member are there today. It’s raining and I bet it’s nice there. Mr Woods just stopped raining, went out to see what you meant, I can see you could take off the chains, but being someone that is still learning from the membership I can see no purpose other then to loose power in the rear wheels. Did you do that to that to the Vengeance? What did you gain. If you say it really helps, I’ll try it.

[Noel Woods]

The way the Mud Ox is designed, when running tracks, the rear most set of chains are redundant. You have more than enough traction with the front driven 3 axles. The rear most axle needs to have slack chains as designed from the factory, if those chains are too tight it causes binding on the next forward set of chains and potentially could cause the chains to bind or break
I removed the rear set on my Vengeance with no notice of lack of traction. The tracks fit fairly tight over the tires as is, so the rear tire becomes a return bogey wheel like on a tank or heavy piece of equipment. My Argo frontier 8x8 has track tuners on the middle axles, and as such the middle axles are not powered. It goes anywhere I want it to, much like the Vengeance does.

[Deedeelin1]

Thank You Mr. Woods

[john swenson]

yes...that makes sense . you may gain a little power too . j.b.