@Norm Charbonneau posted:I have parts from the half off sale to convert one of my K4s to the postwar pilot version. I will take a peek into the gearbox when I do the conversion. Any idea if the damage and misalignment can occur in forward or reverse? It will be interesting to look into now that I’m intimately familiar with the L1 gears.
Before you even take it apart it's merely a matter of shining a flashlight through the spokes onto the secondary shaft and bushing in the chassis.
Then, with the loco powered off rock the engine back and forth. In my engines case the shaft rocked back and forth inside the bushing, and the bushing was worn oblong.
This was only on one side of the shaft were the brunt of the secondary gear load was taken.
