HL M4A3 105mm Sherman with Mato Metal track
11-30-2018, 06:28 PM
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HL M4A3 105mm Sherman with Mato Metal track
Good Evening Tankers,
I have stock HL M4A3 105mm Sherman, I would like to replace the existing tracks with the Mato T74 track with duck bill end connectors. Any suggestions to what should be done? ( like replace the sprockets, idlers, and gear boxes.) I added the Mato Ostketten (winter track) to my HL Stug 3, runs great. I wish they would make these after market tracks out of plastic, less expensive, easier to work with, and weigh less. HL are you following?
I have stock HL M4A3 105mm Sherman, I would like to replace the existing tracks with the Mato T74 track with duck bill end connectors. Any suggestions to what should be done? ( like replace the sprockets, idlers, and gear boxes.) I added the Mato Ostketten (winter track) to my HL Stug 3, runs great. I wish they would make these after market tracks out of plastic, less expensive, easier to work with, and weigh less. HL are you following?
11-30-2018, 08:15 PM
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Good Evening Tankers,
I have stock HL M4A3 105mm Sherman, I would like to replace the existing tracks with the Mato T74 track with duck bill end connectors. Any suggestions to what should be done? ( like replace the sprockets, idlers, and gear boxes.) I added the Mato Ostketten (winter track) to my HL Stug 3, runs great. I wish they would make these after market tracks out of plastic, less expensive, easier to work with, and weigh less. HL are you following?
I have stock HL M4A3 105mm Sherman, I would like to replace the existing tracks with the Mato T74 track with duck bill end connectors. Any suggestions to what should be done? ( like replace the sprockets, idlers, and gear boxes.) I added the Mato Ostketten (winter track) to my HL Stug 3, runs great. I wish they would make these after market tracks out of plastic, less expensive, easier to work with, and weigh less. HL are you following?
Also, you'll prolly need to upgrade your gear box also. I bought the version that came with the nickel gear box, it lacked the torque needed to not bog down.
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No problem! One other issue I did encounter was the bogies are also narrower than the tracks and allow them to slide, then they being plastic just shows wear from the metal tracks. I replaced my lower with a mato metal chassis that came with metal suspension. But you might be able to find just the metal suspension. Being the metal bogies are wider, it would be a chore I would think to try to make metal ones work. I know you said you wanna keep it light, but it's one of those things, at least it send this way to me, that once to upgrade one thing to metal, you end up having to upgrade allot to metal. Just because of the wear.
