Home made rubber tracks

[sherman]

REALLY NICE job SMOG: could you show the inside of the tracks of how you put the guides on??? would like to copy if you don't mind? did you extend out the wheels or did you leave them at the regular axle distance?

[guyvapeur]

That is a great design and a job well done. Can we get more pics of the tire guides on the track.

Guy

[North Country Tough]

Thats a nice job smog,great piece of home grown ingenuity,you Quebecers have a born instinct for snow transportation,I look forward to your field test and evaluation,Joesph Armand Bombardier would be proud.N.C.T

[smog]

I received numerous PM about it so here is how I made mine.

I got 3 identical snowmobile tracks. I chose the polaris 1.5" as it was easy to find on flebay. So I got 3x 133.5"x15"x1.5" polaris RMK tracks Paid 100$ each + shipping.



You can go see your local snowmobile seller as he could have new take-off in stock.

Then I made my own design of tire guide. I made sure it would be easy to build at home. Then sent the drawing to the laser cut machine :



I made the drawing leaving a very small tab between the sections so it would stay together and bend it 10 at the same time on the hyd press brake. I also chose to make some square holes and use the regular carriage bolts (easy installation)

price for the 148 tire guides : 200$

price for the 300 bolts and nuts : 24$

I chose to overlap the track sections and bolt it together under the track guides; I saved 4 hinges.

overall it was a 8 hours job and I'm please with the result. my cost including the used track shipping was 675$ + 8 easy hours.