Great comments from you all, thanks and glad you enjoyed seeing her run again. I certainly did. On of the problems with the frozen track links is that it makes for a very tight feeling as the tracks are not "flowing" around so to speak. This means that its got a lot of drag and unless you give it quite a bit of throttle it was wanting to slow up. Changing gear from 1st to 2nd was pretty much impossible as it lost inertia whilst you double de clutched. The issue with the brake seals is more of a worry, in the short term as I dont want the graphite grease compound to damage my brake shoes, but I fear they will. I didnt want to have to crack the tracks and remove the hubs again so soon. ah well, looks like I will have to . Kevin an infared heat gun sounds pretty high tech for me, but a great gadget. Did you use the same sort of gland material as me then? I knew mine were tight when I fitted them as the hub was pretty hard to turn but I figured that they would bed in. Richard, are you talking about the white coloured square section rope seal that I have seen in some shops for sale?
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