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Originally Posted by Skywalkar

Nice job!
If Lightning had gone for tank treads, it would almost certainly have looked a lot like what you guys have put together here.

We have grown rather fond of the built-in tensioning capabilities of VersaBlocks, though, so my first guess is that we would have stuck with those even if we had gone for tank treads... Unless.

Rhino treads are significantly longer than your average belts or chains, which means that you need an above-average travel distance on your tensioning mechanism (whatever it may be); this is certainly the reason for the stock Rhino chassis' screw-type tensioners. Looks like you've got more than an inch of travel on those slots up front; do you think that VersaBlock tensioning may have been insufficient for this application?

Unfortunately we don't really care for using the versa blocks for tensioning on drive train. We used the versablocks for tensioning our 2014 WCD and found that it was difficult to keep the chain properly tensioned and the wheels perpendicular to our frame.

In 2013 we used the team 221 frame system and really like their method of tensioning. This is the tensioning system our 2016 drive train mimics.

Yes there is plenty of room to travel the blocks...hopefully way more then we need, but it's our first time running treads so we aired on the side of caution and made large slots.