Hello everyone, awesome site! I recently picked up a 1935 Allis-Chalmers "M" crawler. The pins, bushings and rails are junk. Does anyone know where I might be able to find a complete set of tracks that would fit this thing? Other than the tracks, everything works great on this machine. Someone has fitted a blade on it that is operated by the winch. The way it is right now, it can be run on flat ground paying close attention to not make hard turns with it. But, try to side hill it or do a 180 and it wants to throw a track. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks. Bruce
lots and lots of after market things made. Try any undercarriage supplier close to you.
AC model M tracks. Hi, ACcrazy. IF you want to restore it and keep it as genuine as possible, there is an unofficial Allis Chalmers site where you will probably find information about all sorts of things relating to your model M. http://www.allischalmers.com/ Just register and ask away. They seem a pretty helpful bunch over there. Other wise, try any good after-market track parts supplier. It may be worth a visit to the A-C site anyway to get the model M track chain specs for pitch, rail height, pin and bush diameters, link width from rail to rail, rail width and any other information that you need to get the right chains for it. You may find that you will have to settle for something close and re-ring your sprockets to match 'cos it's been a while since any A-C M's were made. There is a list of suppliers of all sort of things in this thread: Happy hunting.
Greg, thank you for responding. Unfortunately there is nothing like that close to me that I'm aware of. Deas, thank you very much! :notworthy I'm not really concerned with keeping it original. Just want it functional to use around the property as a firewood getter and motorcycle trail upkeep. And it's just a cool little piece of history to have around. Bruce
Cool history. Hi, ACcrazy. Yer welkum to ther infermayshun. M8. It snow yoos ter ennybuddy, prob'ly nott eavun mee, if'n it jess stays in ma head. (Don't mind my spelling. I have sometimes been accused of playing with the English language.) Those model M's were apparently a good, solid tractor in their day. I have seen a few of them DownUnder at a few shows and machines as old as that tend to not make it to shows if they don't last. Hope it all goes well for you.