By Dean Brittenham (Argoferret) on Unrecorded Date: Edit

I am restoring an early 80s Argo 8x8. I have been working on removing the frame from the body in order to replace the body. As part of this activity I had to remove all of the chains. All of the chains appear to be in great condition, aside from being kinda mucky (one had a little surface rust on it). I have wound all of them up into spirals and placed them into a 5 gallon bucket. I am wondering what the best way would be to first restore them (ie remove the surface rust and grease) then relubricate them prior to reinstalling them. I didn't want to do anything that might hurt the chains, so I thought better to ask first!

By argogeru on Unrecorded Date: Edit

dean,
I also am restoring an argo 8. Its an orange 1982. I am all done except dropping in the power pack. the body is in excelent shape so I didn't replace that. this was the coolest body style argo has made in my opinion.
I also pulled the frame and it is painted with some really good undercoating paint that my friend tom had done. I replaced all the bearing flanges with greasable ones and upgraded to greasable bearings.
You can replace all the chian for 100 bucks or less from shoup manufacturing, that is what i am doing, I wont half to worry about it then. I am putting a new 23 hp briggs in it and the tranny is being rebuilt right now. My only concern is the old style jackshafts, they are only one inch in diameter unlike the new 1 1/4. I am also putting rawhide 111s on it, and have a spare set of runnamucks for smooth trail riding.
I will post pictures of the "ORANGE CRUSH" when she is finished in about 4 weeks. Its alot of work but alot of fun to.