Home made rubber tracks

[smog]

I chose to leave it as-is and I will have a look at it in the spring/summer as my garage is unheated.

[smog]

and I even had the chance to see Antoine's Adair tracks in action.

[guyvapeur]

The set of tracks Smog has along with his Max is one hell of a winning combination. I was part of the trail ride yestureday at Prevost. Smog was like the sheep dog herding sheep. He quite literraly ran circles around the other machines. He got into some deep holes but was able to get out of every last one. I am very much impressed with his Max and his DIY rubber tracks.

[weber]

hi,i was wondering what size track you made those homemade tracks from, i got the older plastic tracks and mine are starting to crack where the pins go in if you could i would like more info on hoe you made those thanks, ron

[smog]

hi,i was wondering what size track you made those homemade tracks from, i got the older plastic tracks and mine are starting to crack where the pins go in if you could i would like more info on hoe you made those thanks, ron

from the very first post :

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.

and here is the starting point with all the info : https://www.6x6world.com/forums/tire...er-tracks.html

[smog]

A new picture of last week-end's ride !!

[Beeman]

Must be nice to have snow out there.. it's all gone over here in Alberta :P

[smog]

Must be nice to have snow out there.. it's all gone over here in Alberta :P

It's not the winter we used to have when I was younger.

in the woods, we have 24 inches but 30 minutes south, in Montreal, they have barely 6 inches over the lawn.

[weber]

northern minnesota we only have about 5 inches of snow and it sucks

[weber]

what size tires are you runnin and what length about did you cut your tracks

[smog]

190" per side over 23" mesured diameter tires @ 7 psi

so it took a bit less than 1 and a half 133" polaris track per side.

[spookum]

Just thought i would throw this out there, make sure you keep the correct direction of rotation. I beleive that newer snow machine tracks are computer desighned to run just one way. It should say on them which direction that is. Just important to keep in mind if you run a particualar off set. Hopefuly im not repeating somone here. And has anyone put a dozen or so UHMW chunks on the tracks to support the track for on pavement purposes to keep from tearing up drive terain components yet?

[smog]

And has anyone put a dozen or so UHMW chunks on the tracks to support the track for on pavement purposes

it will defeat the whole purpose of the rubber. Pavement is exactly like frozen ground/ice/wood/rocks during winter. The plastic/HDPE/UHMWPE tracks can't get grip on it; I have seen it first hand last week end. And it's not the pavement that is hard on the drivetrain components, it's the rubber-rubber contact between the tires and the tracks

edit : and what make the Argo + trutrax worst than anything else is the closed cleat cell design packing with snow and the rigid segments making sure the snow stays packed in the closed cleats. Adair Argo found a way around this kind of design flaws and are significantly better.

edit 2 : you know, all the tracks made it up the hill at a certain point. it just took a lot longer for some while instant for others. So don't think it's a black and white situation.

[Obsessed]

A new picture of last week-end's ride !!

awsome picture smog...looks like a blast! thanks for sharing...got any more? :-)

tim

[smog]

awesome picture smog...looks like a blast! thanks for sharing...got any more? :-)

tim

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