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    Hi Ernie,

    after welding the cones in, it had ruined the rubber due to the heat. Also, because the rubber tracks run on these as guides I wanted it to have the freedom to guid rather than the two rubber faces to grip to each other if that makes sense. Also, the later Staman track kit come with the ready made new top track guides rather than distorting the old ones to weld the cones in. These new top track guid come with no rubber, so I copied that.

    I hope this helps, and any other questions, please feel free to ask me.

    many thanks

    Byron Kay, England 

     

  2. On 8/12/2021 at 11:30 AM, lore16 said:

    Hello everybody!

     

    I'm from Germany and I also own a Weasel M29 10XXX

     

    We have also had the "Staman rubber chains" for about 2 years. After we installed it, there are problems with the front axle for the second time. The originally "thinner" axle was exchanged for a reinforced, thicker hollow axle with greater wall thickness when the chain was changed from the original to rubber.

     

    This first built-in axle was bent on the right side (motor) after about 5 hours of driving! When removing and changing this axle, the "carrier arm" also located at the front right was renewed because it was also a bit bent!

     

    Now we have made a test drive with the new reinforced axle (light terrain with a little mud, approx. 3 km) and the new axle is bent again!

     

    This time stronger on the left side, but also a bit on the right side!

     

    What are we doing wrong? An operator error?

     

    In this thread I read to fill out the axis with solid material? Do you relate to the original Weasel tracks? Our "new" interchangeable axle made from a replica was already significantly larger in wall thickness! (When buying the rubber track, we were advised to use these reinforced axles from reproduction, as the rubber tracks are more stressed than the original chains!

     

    The curvature of the axle towards the rear of the vehicle always begins roughly in the flange, or when the axle emerges from the bottle from the frame! On the front you can always see a gap between the "carrier arm" and the flange, which then gets bigger and bigger at the front!

     

    It would be great to have help from you guys. We haven't had the weasel for a very long time and have little experience, and the scene in Germany is very small.

     

    can it also be a problem with the frame of the weasel? But was everything correct with the newly installed axle and was everything in order immediately after the measurement?

     

    What are we doing wrong? Can someone give us some advice? Are we thinking about making a completely new (massive) axle? We are grateful for any help.

     

    Greetings from the Rhineland

     

    Roland

     

    Hi Roland,

    im sorry I am late to the party with your message.

     

    I pressed a solid steel bar through the axel, not only did this tell me the front axel was already straight but it has also not given me any issues after nearly 300 miles.

    it was just regular steel bar, not any sort of special steel.

    I hope this helps and good luck

    Byron Kay, England 

  3. On 2/1/2021 at 9:09 PM, OZM29C said:

    Can I offer a suggestion, discard your old Phenolic Camshaft timing gear and fit a new Aluminium gear. Its a lot of work to replace a camshaft timing gear should you have a failure!

    Alumimium timin gear.jpg

    Can I second John’s opinion though Experience 

  4. Thank you Guys, this is what i needed when I was fitting them.
    Hans Louis on FB can source them I believe.

    I have also seen the other company sell these tracks on the Facebook page and on Milweb. I am led to believe there were two guys doing the weasel Staman tracks, then they parted ways and one of the guys is still doing them but nothing to do with Staman. 
    If I find the guy I will post his details on here. 

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