4T10 TRACKMASTER BROKEN WHEEL

[crafttree]

I was on a trip to the cabin the other day and felt somne nasty vibrations, got out to look and there is the rear foam filled tire( more like solid rubber filled) sticking out at an angle from the wheel. For a while I thought the tire had some how come off the wheel. After looking a little closer I noticed that the inner half of the wheel had broken off and was long gone. How the inner half of the wheel got off the axle I have no idea. Lucky it did not wind up in the sprocket. Since I do not have any axle clamps to keep the axle from dropping, it took an hour and lots of cussing to get the wheel and tire off the hub. That was after a 5 mile ski trip back to my rig and a trip to town to get a jack. I limped the cat 1 mile back to the cabin on three wheels.

Any of you 4t10 owners had a problem with wheels breaking? All of my trips have been easy rides on snow covered roads. Looking for a new wheel and foam filled tire now. Foam filled seems like a misnomer, looked like solid heavy rubber to me.

 

[Snowtrac Nome]

there was a song about that called three wheels on my wagon

 

[shopman]

Serious bummer - just about everything has happened to mine except that... Although I have had some flats without a spare...

Here is thread on wheels & tires and the same place mentioned where I got my spare wheels recently... Also info on the foam filling.

http://www.forumsforums.com/3_9/showthread.php?t=14882

http://www.steinertractor.com/WHS019-front-wheel-3-x-15-6-hole

Good luck!

 

[crafttree]

Thanks for the reply, I looked into the local les schwab and they quoted me $300 for wheel tire and foam filled.
Hope I don't break any more wheels. Trying to deal with that on the trail is no fun.