will these home made adairs work?

[midwestmadness775]

Bought my dads max 2 from him and he had started building these tracks. All the cleats and guides are already made. Have 3 inch wide belting to hold them together with. Tracks just need to be put together. Heres some pics of a cleat and a couple guides. Before I buy all the stainless hardware to put them thogether and buy offset rims, how do you guys think they will work?20140123_182926.jpg20140123_183412.jpg20140123_182936.jpg

The belting is all cut and all the holes in the belting cleats and guides are drilled. Everything is ready to be put together. Just need my offset rims and nuts bolts and washers for the tracks

[Buzz]

Nice fabrication. There is some advantage to using separate tire guides and cleats to accomplish the same thing...less UHMW required. You guys probably have some labor into guides though, I bet! My only advice is make sure your inside belt edge is nice and straight... Since you won't be able to cheat it towards the tire and then trim, you just have to make sure it starts out nice and straight.

[midwestmadness775]

Basically I guess what im wanting to know is if I should go for it and buy all the hardware and the other rims and tires. I think they will work. But I want to be sure before I spend all the money on the rims tires and bolts nuts etc. I do my own powdercoating so im going to powdercoat all the guides. Guides were made with a jig my dad made himself. I plan on building snow tracks out of snowmobile tracks. I dont know how these will work in the snow. They should work like a dream in the mud though.

[Buzz]

by the looks of it you probably won't need spacers or offset wheels unless you install wider rubber on the inside. Just run the tracks tight and install wider belting or a winter-kit on the outer belt if you think you'll use it in the snow. I don't see why they wouldn't work like an adair pro-series. You have most everything ready to go, and it would be fun. 1" or 1.5" repro UHMW on those?

[midwestmadness775]

I guess I could put the tracks together and put them on and see what happens. Thatd be cool if I dont need spacers of offset wheels. Itd save me alot of money. But if its a close fit im definently just going to get offset rims

[millerperf]

hi im looking for a place to buy the belting, do you have a name or number? thank mark

[midwestmadness775]

I could ask my dad. He got it from where he works. They replace the conveyor belting every so often and throw it in a junk pile. Its some pretty pricey stuff but im sure there is somewhere you could get it.