Has anyone taken apart a refrigerated car from the Ice Cold Express set?

I'm fairly certain Eric of ericstrains.com did a fair amount of "internal surgery" on the cars from his set.  So you may want to check with him.

David

I did E-Mail him but I haven't herd back from him yet. 

Got to love the L site. Everything is easy.

http://www.lionel.com/Products...h=0&Keywords=Ice Cold Express set&CategoryID=0&RailLineID=&CatalogId=

in here??

 

http://www.lionel.com/media/se...SFIceColdExpress.pdf

Hmmm, won't open for me. Who's hakin' this one now?????

I already went to that and found it totally useless. 

I took one apart and there are some screws in it that you just dont expect, im trying to remember where they are but that information is evading me. That repair was like a hundred and fifty projects ago. I think there are posts from the roof that hold the shell on the body. When you find them youre gonna go, "wow thats different" because thats what I said. Sorry I cant remember

The screws that hold the bottom door channel on hold the body to the frame

Hi Matt. I took those off but I think there must be another one under the fuel tank and I didn't want to break that off. There is one screw under one of the trucks that didn't seem to do much when I loosened it?    

 

I don't have experience with the same car you are thinking about, but I had a stumper recently too.

 

Did you actually remove the trucks themselves?

 

On my car, I had to remove both trucks, then each end had a screw that was holding the frame to a post that came down from the roof, like Matt mentioned.  It was impossible to get to these screws with the trucks on (might not have even been visible, I don't have the car in front of me to look right now)

 

Good Luck.

 

-Dave

I really wish I could remember but I do think there are posts from the roof that hold the body on

I want to say that you take the truck off and then you can get at the post in the frame to get the screw off. Look at the post on the left, there is also one on the right

 

 

I'll pull both trucks and give that a shot. It went together it's got to come apart! Thanks for the suggestions guy's. I'll let you know how it works out. 

Chris- curious where you bought the car from and does that person or company have any more of these cars for sale, whether it's the smoking car or other ones?

Chris, any luck getting it apart?

you need to remove the fuel tank to access a screw, I tool all 3 of mine apart as I got mine off of ebay cheap and need to do some repair to the cars.

Mike is right in that one of the screws is under one of the fuel tanks.  However, the tank is held on with high strength glue.  Back when I did mine I asked Eric for help and he advised me to drill a 3/16" hole in order to gain access with a screwdriver.  The next thing to overcome is that the side body is also glued to the frame/base.  Be careful not to break the lower door guide portion because it is thin and delicate.  Lionel did not assemble these with maintenance in mind.  Fuel tanks are available from Lionel if you want to eliminate the access hole.