Spent the morning trouble shooting and repairing. John the installation manual was a great help.
Pulled the shell yesterday and found the following.
No grease in the trucks, Rear motor The fly wheel had been pushed down to the extent that it was binding on the motor and touching the wires leading into the motor from the board .
Next was the fact that the flywheel literally pulled right off. I found this out while reinstalling the motor when realigning the worm gear. I started turning the fly wheel. As soon as I hit resistance the fly wheel turned but not the shaft. The fly Wheel also has a built in tach Tape. This was a brand spanking new engine.
The fix: Obviously greased the worm gear.
Put some epoxy in the hole of the flywheel and reattached insuring plenty of clearance from the motor and aligning it centered to the tach reader. then let it cure overnight.
Remounted the motor into the truck. When I tightened the screw that holds down the motor mount. All the way motors and wheels would not turn. Back off a half a turn wheels move. Issue worm gear not aligning with the gear in the truck.
The fix: I decided to look at the washer thing that the worm gear end sits in. I pulled it out and on a whim I reinstalled with the flat side up. Remounted the motor and tightened the screw and no issue. everything move freely. Now here is the weird part. The front truck washer thing was left in its original position with flat side down. There were no issues with the truck assembly.
Reassmbled the engine and tested.
Set it at 128 step no jerking or binding at 1-5 SMPH forward and reverse.
Set it at 32 step some jerking(odessy Jerk) but not really noticeable.at 1-3
Ran the engine for half an hour in 32 no issues but still had the very slow start speeding up gradually to set speed of 9,
Same for 128 no issues with slow start.
Engine seams happiest running at 128 Step. Ran for an hour pulling about 20lbs of rolling stock. No issues.
Next is to fine tune the EOB as soon as I can figure out where I put my CAB1. Hopefully by Thursday when Mario's kadee mounts arrive and are installed, I will have found my remote. Also at that time I will re mu with legacy GP35 to confirm both will operate smoother in 128 step. Otherwise there weren't any issues with the mu together and ran fine.
Running Happy now with dummy MTH SD24.
Running happy mued with Legacy GP35 day of arrival before repairs.