"Ken Cutt" wrote in message
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Hi . I have a VW driven track machine with chain drives . First off
the chains are 60's .

Ken, that's one of the answers I was looking for. Great. Thanks.

My reduction after the axles is about 5/1 ( I should check this ). Not
enough ;-( .

Again an answer to what I was looking for. I haven't looked in to the
specifics of ratios yet. But at least from your experince I can get a
better idea.

Mine has the brakes after the reduction , bad idea . It would have
been much better right at the axle . I don't really have room to move
it now so planning on going over to power brakes and double up my
calipers hoping that solves the problem .

I was haveing trouble in deciding were to put the brakes. I figured if
it was after the reduction that the power transmitted through the
reduction that it would be hard to brake. So you think the brakes would
be better of if they were at the output of the tranny before the
reduction?

My tracks are far different then the pictures you posted . Mine are
old rubber conveyor belting with metal cross bars for the drive
sprockets to engage .

I was orginally going to use a drive sprocket put couldn't find a ready
source for one. What did you use for a sprocket?

If you have any other specific questions ask and I will see if I can
help .

I think the ones I posed here are about it for now. I'll keep your
e-mail addy in the address book.

I can see if about pictures if you like .

A pic or two would be nice if you can do that. I realy would appreciate
it.

I really wish mine had an automatic tranny . Things get real busy and
shifting from forward to reverse on slopes can be a bit nervy .

I was also wondering if an automatic would work better. I don't have the
hills to contend with. Just a 1/10 mile long driveway that gets plugged
with snow real fast, plus I don't like when it gets below te 20's and
the wind chill way minus.

Again thanks for all the good info. I'm kind of surprised that somebody
else has actually tried this. At first I thought I was a bit nuts trying
to do this.

Regards,
Bernd