My Lionel 6-18009 Mohawk will not smoke even after adding fluid. I know it's a puffer type and not a fan driven type. Any help?
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As long as it's nothing electrical take it apart. Cut the sleeve off. Use new wicking material and make sure it's wrapped around the heating element and fills the bottom of the bowl so that new fluid will be absorbed up to the element.
Rod Miller
The wick should not wrap completely around the smoke resistor, it should just be firmly in contact with it. The object of the exercise is for the exposed part of the resistor to be hotter and to vaporize the smoke fluid that wicks up from the wick. I like to have about 1/2 of the smoke resistor covered.
Two other possibilities on this unit;
1) The smoke piston is stuck in the "up' position due to too much fluid leaking down in the cylinder.
2) The hole from the cylinder up into the smoke chamber is plugged.
