Track Tension

[ESKIMO]

Is it just me or does it seem like the track on the RX-1 needs to be tightened extra tight to eliminated skipping?

Eskimo

 

[APEX GT 4 STROKER]

Track Ratchets

I have the track set tighter than spec and it still ratchets 04 Warrior

 

[rxrider]

How many miles have you got? New tracks are stretching some, it will go away after say 500 hundred miles or so.

 

[ESKIMO]

I have about 3200 miles on it now. The track did stretch. It's pretty good now, no more ratcheting, but whenever I hit a bump at any little speed, somthing starts rubbing on the track for a second. I think it might be my front heat exhchanger that is bent back, on the bottom, ever so slightly toward the shaft. I think it the track is still loose enough that when I hit the bump, the track rubs the heat exchanger.

I don't get how the track can get so stretched. I have had other sleds with camo tracks without any problem. Could it be that the strands of thread within the rubber are all torn up? That's the only way I could explain it.

Eskimo