Undercarriage Services
The maintenance costs of your undercarriage compose 50% of your total investment in machine care. Prevention of deep damage to your equipment reduces maintenance expenses 和 increases your bottom line. There are many advantages to maintaining your undercarriage including increased safety, stable machine value, reduced repairs, high-level performance, 和 more. Our undercarriage services include:
- Quality “Wet” Brushing: gives you built-in wear life
- Idler Resurfacing: extends idler life at a fraction of the cost of replacement
- Roller Reshelling: allows the reuse of tough inner components
- Shoe Regrousering: extends shoe life instead of shoe replacement
WET PIN AND BUSHING TURNS
In order to fight the degradation process of pin 和 bushings, Carter Machinery uses wet turns to prolong the use 和 efficiency of your undercarriage. In a wet pin 和 bushing turn, the undercarriage’s links are pressed down, 和 the bushing seals are replaced. The track is then pressed back together, 和 the pins are filled with new oil. This process pulls a vacuum on the pin oil hole, filling it with new lubricating oil. In a dry turn, the old seals are reused, with the bushings turned before the links are pressed back together.
Although both processes can restore the track pitch 和 prolong the life of the link assembly, the dry turn does not ensure proper lubrication of the pins going forward. A wet turn ensures the pins remain well lubricated with oil after the turn is performed, giving extended wear life to the track link assemblies.