Ok, if you can understand this terrible artwork of mine, the blue circle is the area you are working on. Nevermind the errant blue mark I made. Now the red arrow is where you would weld the wear strip on. There is a shim in there, but that'll burn in when you weld it. You didn't hurt anything by running it that short of time. Most likely it would be fine without anything holding that wear strip, but better safe than sorry. It just protects the track frame itself from direct wear from the idler brackets. I've seen many that were so worn out the welds wore off and there was no remaining wear strip left, and they had been that way for a long time (lot of wear on the track frame). If you get that area cleaned up, you'll see the wear strips in there on the bottom side of the top rail of the track frame, both sides of each frame. The wear strips are roughly an inch wide, about 10 inches long, and around 3/8 of an inch thick. If you weld it, just weld it horizontally across the 1 inch width of the wear strip. That will allow you to cut it off easier when you can afford to fix it correctly. Now in the course of running it, if you happen to see the track losing tension, that will be because the adjuster shaft is maxed out and grease is leaking around the seals. Thats where some guys will make the spacers to go in between the adjuster yoke and the idler bracket, to get the idler farther out without running out of stroke on the adjuster cylinder. Like I said, once it starts getting out past the end of the track frame very far, that is when you'll really need to start doing something, fix the tracks or take a link out to buy a little more time. Hope this makes sense.
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