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1968 Tucker 442 New to Me

just finished up a 5000 mile tucker hunting trip and getting ready to go back out after more tuckers next week,

mean while back in the tucker bat cave, lots of tracks/grousers are being restored, well over 1500 grousers are being done. lots of machines waiting for their restored tracks

the mayor of tuckerville is busy working on his 1950 423 machine,

wonderful thanksgiving.

looking forward to seeing everyone at Leavenworth, Washington this February

just finishing up a special kitten project.

along with a couple of special pink tucker projects, just got in a 55 gallon drum of pink pontoon paint, going to be so pink around here :clap::clap::clap:
 

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MNoutdoors said:
Well I think I must have made the new pontoon princess pissed :unsure:and she jumped back in the glacier park bus and got on the going to the sun highway and got stuck:glare:can't say it would be the first princess that won't pardon the
Pink. :yum: wait maybe she just ran out of paint before she was done wth those pink pontoons and then got stuck going over the pass to get some more :doh:

Let me call Donald and see if she on the campaign trial with him :unsure:


FYI, Glacier Park was fabulous, we enjoy going up to Glacier over thanksgiving this year, would recommend a winter visit to everyone
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On track for assembly next week. Committed to current design. Good news is I can swap the uhmw out on the cat easily while keeping in service . I'm interested to see how this goes.

That should be plenty of griusers with a few left over.
 

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MNoutdoors said:
Well I think I must have made the new pontoon princess pissed :unsure:and she jumped back in the glacier park bus and got on the going to the sun highway and got stuck:glare:can't say it would be the first princess that won't pardon the
Pink. :yum: wait maybe she just ran out of paint before she was done wth those pink pontoons and then got stuck going over the pass to get some more :doh:

Let me call Donald and see if she on the campaign trial with him :unsure:


FYI, Glacier Park was fabulous, we enjoy going up to Glacier over thanksgiving this year, would recommend a winter visit to everyone
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O glad the the hidden tracking device is still working then:yum:I thought man if she's there she could really be stuck :wink:

Donald said hello, but has not seen you in a while :whistling:

When you get those tracks all done let me know where you are going to keep them:unsure:and make sure there is a forklift around when your gone :smile:
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Got in touch with these guys when I was down in Florida: http://www.tse-industries.com/produ...nd-hdpe-plastic-sheets/virgin-colored-uhmw-pe


They make colored virgin UHMW. They were very helpful and interested in this project. Engineers looked at the setup and think it will work well. Even went so far as to send me free material to try and give them feed back on this interesting application. Think I have a bunch coming if anyone else needs to try.

Also it's black which is not as affected by UV and will look better.
 

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Not looking very wintery up top today. Probably still can drive the 53 on rubber back to its home with that snow coverage.
 

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The better bolts for this setup would be a real long shank cut threads off to shorten. Initial I though tabs met table but all they do is keep it from rotation. Weight is carried right on the casting behind each channel on the frame.

Further supporting no table weight transfer at the king pin.
 

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Got some of Scott's special sauce today. Not bad at 4$ per tube thanks to those sympathetic to the Tucker Cause!
 

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Very happy with the final assembly. Think this will work well.

Hope of have driving by Sunday .
 

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Tucker factoid : the long axles had two different thread lengths. 1" and 1 1/4". The longer thread used a special castle nut with a relief milled out the back to slide the extra 1/4" or so over the no threaded axles until it hits the hub.

Thinking the shorter standard castle but design was later seeing as three of the four axles on it are shorter. They are still useable just need to use washers/spacers to make up the difference if you don't have custom Tucker axle nuts.
 
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If it doesn't work out remember this moment because it sure looks nice!
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Mr. T Addict, be sure to clean and firmly seat the hub/extentions on the axles. I would not just rely on sucking them up with the nuts. Make sure you have good fit with new keys.

Also if you swap sides with the sprockets, you will have less used wear surface on the sprocket teeth. Most cats don't drive backwards very much and seldom pulling a load/groomer.

You are lookin good. Might make an extra set of UHMW inserts while you are at it- that is the best way I know to not have to replace them.
 
New keys check. Sprockets reversed and connected the top of the teeth for strength check.

Extra uhmw check.

Will double clean the hubs and extensions .

Snow? Negative
 
Initial testing thumbs up. Out of the barn under its own power. Very interested to see his his uhmw wears.

Plan from here is to spray bomb the rear pontoons as is. Work in the nice spare setup I have and swap one out at a time to keep machine in service.

Notice the Tucker halo in the pic.
 

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I hope you didnt have the rear driveshaft connected !!:biggrin::biggrin: looking real nice,i doubt you will notice any wear on those teflon blocks.
 
Plenty of uhmw. This is the sample they sent. Going to swap out the white for this.

Let me know who's working one one next I'll send some.
 

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