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jdemaris
04-07-2004 06:17:26
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Case 310 steering in reply to george md, 04-06-2004 23:16:30
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I have a good understanding of the engineering principles of a differential and the Clark system as used in the machines we are discussing. I've got one, in pieces, sitting here on my desk. Putting aside the rhetoric and erudition for a moment, along with the ubiquitous claims of my being in error, my premise and argument is simply thus: I get on my HG, go forward and push dirt without touching the steering levers, and, under certain soil conditions, one track will COMPLETELY stop while the other turns. I can make it drive by application of the brakes. It's happened many times. My neighbor has the same experience with his HGs, OC3, and Bombardiers. I've also witnessed it occurring on many other machines that use the same differential. You stated, in an April 6 reply to me, "Jdemaris, Karen is correct, cletrac, terratrac,and case always maintain power on both tracks all the time . . ." I assert once again, that if one track will stop when moving forward, this is NOT an example of having "power to both tracks all the time" unless we have a language and terminology problem. As aforementioned, within your penultimate reply to me, you wrote "cletrac, terratrac,and case always maintain power on both tracks all the time" and in your second reply to me you wrote "You may have one stop while the other is slipping as in any open differential" . . . so, which is it? Your two statements appear to be contradictious. At the outset of this discussion, I was simply describing a "real-world" situation and trying to avoid extraneous/erroneous bullsh*t. But, perhaps it's not possible. I run my machine and describe what it does, and someone else tells me it is NOT happening. That leaves a closed set of possibilities including #1 I am dillusional, or perhaps #2 I'm telling mistruths.
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