i’ve just acquired this moped and it is a conventional train but I want to convert it into lion chief plus. Any gotcha items I need to watch out for? Especially dealing with a fan driven steam addiction?
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You appear to have a 6-8562 AC motor GP20.
Lionchief plus has to have a DC can motor and most Lionchief Plus control boards required also a motor with the matching tachometer encoder flywheel.
While you might be able to do a shell swap onto a Lionchief Plus GP20 chassis, many of the provisions like example he fan driven smoke unit may not have the mounting bosses molded into your older GP20 shell.
https://www.lionelsupport.com/...nchief%20plus%20gp20
Again, you would basically be buying complete GP20 Lionchief Plus engine and then doing a shell swap.
Vernon,
that sounds better. I’ll just get a GP 20 lionchief and shell swap.
I've done LionChief plus/conventional shell swaps with several LC+ RS-3s, and checked out doing it with Geeps as well. The RS-3 swaps were fairly easy, but after looking at what would be required with the Geeps, I put that project off. It appeared it would be a lot more difficult job than with the RS-3s. I've done a number of PWC Geep swaps with conventional shells to give them TMCC and RailSounds; that's very easy to do. The LC swap appears that it would be much more of an undertaking. If you decide to do a swap, please post your results - be interesting to see.
Now I’m tempted to just gut it and buy all the LC parts and use the GP20 shell and base. Your thoughts on which is easier?
Buy a complete engine. Parts does not sell the harness and wiring. That's one of the many hurdles.
