Like everything in my life, I either have time or money, not both. So I scraped together money, and this project sat until now. I got some free time and slapped some new MTH parts inside this old engine. Trouble is I forgot to take pics as I went. So these pics are after what happened so far.
Smoke wires are separated and will go up in the shell. A single black wire goes to the frame. Only thing else is the 2 headlight wires shown going to the front.
The smoke unit replaced the 2 Seuth units and the shell was not set-up for it. I ordered the smoke funnel and attached it to a spare smoke unit. I placed a gasket on top. I had to fill the area above that gasket with some hot glue and caulk, to prevent excessive leaking if the engine comes in for maintenance.
There's an extra tender light that I should have researched. I shoved a LED in there for now.
here I'm playing with where to get power for the fireman's side of the engine (red wire). The stock set-up got it from the tender only I believe.
Fireman's side main drivers seem to be isolated. I reversed the trailing axles to utilize the MTH wiper set-up rubbing on the axles. Both side axle bearings are plastic.
Great that MTH had spare parts to help this project along. Most of those still required some adapting to be used.
I didn't check for standard wiring practices. I threw the pickup wires in there. I was thinking because it's PS3, polarity didn't matter. I will straighten up the wires when it runs.
If anyone follows along with any of this and needs any answers, just ask. When I get an hour or two to work on it, I just stab at it.
On most of my projects, things need to be redone once or twice to get it right. Some projects never panned out.
