Junk Cletrac, no model, engine swap candidate What model?

[Blake Malkamaki]

I downloaded a bunch of pictures from the old forum, but I don't know which ones are yours 440roadrunner. Can you describe them to me a little bit?
Thanks.

[440roadrunner]

Blake, it's the darnest thing.   All pictures are hosted from  "tinypic"  so tonight I found most of them--saved in my computer,  and decided to repost them all.   BUT I DIDN'T  HAVE TO.   All I had to do was hit the "modify post"  button,  AND THERE WAS THE CODE  for the link to the picture.   When I resaved the post,  there they were!!

[hotratz]

Yeah, That's exactly what I found out with my pics. What a relief!

[Blake Malkamaki]

Blake, it's the darnest thing.   All pictures are hosted from  "tinypic"  so tonight I found most of them--saved in my computer,  and decided to repost them all.   BUT I DIDN'T  HAVE TO.   All I had to do was hit the "modify post"  button,  AND THERE WAS THE CODE  for the link to the picture.   When I resaved the post,  there they were!!

You must not have uploaded your pictures to the site afterall. They were hosted somewhere else.

That is good it worked out that way. I fixed a few of those links for others and I had to highlight the url address and click on the picture button to get them to show up in the post.

Blake

[440roadrunner]

Little girl away from home:

Here's my  Unca Bill  in my home town.   Hauled   the thing up there to plow out from the street to Mom's barn,  so I can store a car body back there 'til spring.    the crawler  C frame won't fit up over the trailer fenders,  I scored some nice 8' long 4x4 timbers,  and laid down in the wheel  channels of the trailer.   'S why the blade is blocked up.  Yep.   The block IS chained down!!

Towed it with my old 86 Ranger,  2.9 V6.  Other than a little lack of power,  it towed OK. 

[440roadrunner]

One more.    Unloaded two "bodies"  out at my Mom and Dad's estate until I can get them sold/ disposed of in spring.   Quite a ways from the road to the barn, so I unhooked the trailer on the road,  and used the crawler to tow the trailer back to the barn.

[440roadrunner]

Well we've had 'er pretty easy  so far this winter.  Finally  got  snow  which  "stuck"  a little while ago,  and I finally  got to use  the ol gal  a little to plow the alley

I see that  my first post on this project was  Jan /09  when I bought it.   The battery that was in it  finally  died a little earlier this fall.  After sitting all summer,  the little Toyota 20R  fired right up.   I'm running an old Ford Falcon carb,  and it worked better with the governor with the accellerator pump hooked up,  has a manual choke.   I just turned on the key,  the electric pump filled the carb,  pumped the throttle two strokes,  and pulled out the choke.   She only  cranked about 3 seconds  and fired!!

[hotratz]

You must have got dumped on by the same system that hit my place first of last week.  About 16 inches in two days. I swear I'm moving to a warmer dryer climate. 

[440roadrunner]

I'm not really complaining.   Last year we got a huge snow  BEFORE  Thanksgiving,  and met or broke records for snowfall in the area.   

This year  we got a little snow before Thanksgiving,  which melted off.  It was pretty much  dry, other than a little rain  until just before this storm.  It's been  above freezing many days,  and heck,  we're close to February.   Even if it snowed  A LOT  between now and "the end"  at least we didn't have to put up  with  "winter"  all winter.

[oliverchris]

If the owner DID have anything to do with it, I doubt he'd admit to it 
Yes, it was a late HG or more likely an OC3. Good luck with the 'mutt' project.

[Crazy Matt]

I didnt get to plow but 30 feet of snowbank on my machine this year. It didnt run till last sunday.

It was having magneto problems, so I bought another one for it- which worked worse - LOL

I got a spare motor witha  good mag. Ended up getting it running long enough to sell it !   Looks like I'm outta the oliver biz for awhile.  I might buy another one that needs a clutch, a OC6 , Or something more real like a caterpillar.

[hotratz]

Or something more real like a caterpillar.

[Crazy Matt]

Haha  I need something that does a lil better pushing dirt. Most olivers you find here are a HG/OC. You do find the bigger ones, but they are scrap or a million dollars it seems.   Theres a ton of cat d2's running around yet,


I did email  guy on craigslist on a OC4 last nite tho. Manual angle blade, new rollers - tracks are about 50% tho

[Blake Malkamaki]

Matt, a Cat of the same generation as that Cletrac is going to be heavy, slow, and less responsive. Size for size the Cletrac will run circles around it.

[ianoz]

 Mat , if you don't need to move the machine about ,  and you want to push a bit of dirt around . I would forget about a D2 ,and go for a D4 6 or 7 U . If you go Oliver /Cletrac, i would not go any smaller than a BD .