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Undercarriage Components

Worn undercarriage components, particularly worn drive sprockets, will shorten track life and greatly increase the strain on track motors and gearboxes.
undercarriage component diagram

Sprockets

The sprockets should normally be replaced at the same time as worn out tracks. Effects of worn sprockets include:
  1. Accelerated track wear.
  2. Slipping in tracks causing shock loadings to drive motor.
  3. Increased likelihood of de-tracking and subsequent damage to tracks.
  4. Tearout of the metal inserts in a rubber track.

Bottom Rollers

Bottom rollers are designed to take transfer the majority the excavators weight and dynamic forces, through the tracks, and onto the ground. Check for wear on a regular basis. It is best to replace all the bottom rollers on one side. If only one roller per side is changed, then as the new roller may be slightly larger in diameter it will carry a higher load and have a shorter life.
Backlash or play in the bottom rollers will:
  1. Reduce the excavator’s stability.
  2. Increase the point loadings of less worn rollers, thereby increasing peak ground bearing pressure.
  3. Accelerate track wear.
  4. Increase the likelihood of de-tracking and subsequent damage to tracks.
  5. Increase the load on the track motor and gearbox.

Top Rollers

The top rollers are designed to carry the tracks over the top of the track frame and are part of the tensioning system. Not all machines are fitted with top rollers - generally only diggers over 3 tonnes in operating weight  - smaller machines manage without them. The clearance over the track frame afforded by the top rollers is useful in terms of allowing debris to fall free of the tracks, rather than becoming wedged between the track and the upper surface of the track frame.
Wear in top rollers if often neglected and they are only replaced when it is catastrophic, causing problems with:
  1. Loss of track tension.
  2. Increase the likelihood of de-tracking and subsequent damage to tracks.

Idler Wheels

The idler wheels are a fundamental component of the undercarriage. As well as transferring some of the track frame loads into the tracks, their key function is to feed the tension from the adjuster into the tracks. Failure will:
  1. Reduce the excavator’s stability.
  2. Result in a loss of track tension.
  3. Increase the point loadings on rollers, thereby increasing peak ground bearing pressure.
  4. Accelerate track wear.
  5. Increase the likelihood of de-tracking and subsequent damage to tracks.
  6. Increase the load on the track motor and gearbox.
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    • Excavator Buckets >
      • Digging & Trenching Buckets
      • Ditching & Grading Buckets
      • XHD Buckets
      • V Ditchers
      • Riddle Buckets
      • Clayspades
      • Taper Tile Buckets
      • Micro Trench Buckets
      • Concrete Pouring Buckets
      • Tilt Rotator Buckets
      • Bucket Teeth
    • Excavator Attachments >
      • Heavy Duty Ripper Teeth
      • Tilt Ditchers
      • Rakes
      • General Purpose Rakes
      • Grapples
      • Grip Talon
      • Rotating Grabs
      • Augers & Trenchers
      • Hedge Cutters
      • Hydraulic Hammers
      • Boom Broom
      • Block Grabs
      • Grading Beam
      • Tree Shears
      • Mulchers
      • Mechanical Pulverisors
      • Compaction Wheels
    • Crushers
    • Quick Hitches
    • Rubber Tracks >
      • Camoplast Rubber Tracks
    • Spare Parts >
      • Undercarriage Parts
      • Pins, Bushes, Seals, Shims
      • Bucket & Tipping Linkages
      • Bucket Teeth
      • Cutting Edges
      • General Spares
    • Construction Tyres
  • Technical
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    • Maintenance & Servicing
    • Know your machine
    • Buckets - Buying and using
    • Buckets - Changing buckets & attachments
    • Buckets - Repairs
    • Buckets - Teeth
    • Rubber Tracks - Ground Conditions & Use
    • Rubber Tracks - Sizes
    • Rubber Tracks - Changing a rubber track
    • Rubber Tracks - Tensioning
    • Undercarriage Components
    • Boom Pins, Bushes, Seals & Shims
    • Transportation
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