I was putting a drop of oil on the fan motor of a powered pa diesel #6-34598 because the motor was making noise ,when i took the shell off i also disconnected the antenna by pulling the harness out that had the wire attached to it so i could move the shell out of my way ,i put a drop of oil on the shaft & put everything back together ,thats when my problem started the engine would go so far then it would stop & the headlight would start blinking indicating signal loss ,it would not respond to the cab 2 ,as soon as i powered up the track the engine started up without even being addressed ,changed the batteries in the cab 2 & that helped some with getting the engine to respond,after doing some research on the forum i tried the ground plane way ,i layed a wire along side of the trackup to the point where the engine would stop ,the other end of the wire i connected to cover on the electrical box ,then i sent the engine slowly around the layout & when it got to the point where it stopped it went right through without stopping ,i ran this engine on 2 other independent loops & i had the same problem with the engine coming to a stop,what i can't understand is what did i do that could have caused all these problems ,this engine ran perfect up until the time i took the smoke unit apart to oil the motor it doesn't make any sense to me ,i had trouble with fixing the smoke unit on the dummy unit of this set ,i have no problems withany of my other engines ,this engine looks like it will be ok as long as i run the ground plane wire ,but i shouldn't have to do that . I will keep doing some testing on this problem to see if anything changes ,the dummy unit is still working ok keeping my fingers crossed on that one ,any ideas on what could have caused all these problems ? ,it seems that every time i try to fix one thing i mess up something else .
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