If they are worn enough to take a link out, you can just push the idler back with a stout block of wood between the blade and the idler, and free you take the grease fitting out or loosen it. Put a rag around it, or it will squirt grease all over. Will squirt out lots of grease anyhow, just won't get all over as much stuff if you cover it with a rag. Take a picture of your track links, a side shot of where your idlers are in relation to the track frame when the track is pumped up (if you can). Sometimes you can only take a link out of one side, depending on wear. Usually if a track link can be removed, track wear is very excessive, like beyond needing to be replaced excessive, but sometimes you have to do only what you can afford, and that is OK. I hate to go against what ACG says, but that adjuster essentially can't be hard to pump out due to being out of travel. If the track was off, or loose enough, you could pump grease in there until the "piston" pops out of the barrel, at the same pressure all the way on through. Does it have SALT tracks (Sealed And Lubed Tracks)? If it does, those will have a rubber plug in one side of the pins on every link of the track chain. The pins in SALT tracks are not hardened like dry pin and bushings, due to the fact that the pin and bushing is full of oil (before they get all wore out). This means that if you have SALT tracks, and they are worn enough that the pads clank together and the links are loose, there isn't any oil left in there, and they wear at a VERY accelerated rate as compared to the dry pin aND bushings that use no oil, but are hardened more to compensate for that. You don't want to take a link out if you can't get the adjuster back far enough, you won't be able to wrap the track. Get us some pictures when you have a chance and we'll see what we can do to help.
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