Hello all, I am blessed to own my own Lionel 6-38000 Century Club 2 Empire State Express Hudson.
In addition I have all of the matching Century Club 2 passenger cars and the optional PT Tender (Lionel 6-38097)
This is perhaps my favorite full consist in my collection and I particularly enjoy the look of the consist in it's later years. I'm happy Lionel gives the option to remove the lower portion of the locomotives streamlined side-skirting.
The only problem is that the optional tender comes installed with a very long drawbar that is designed to allow the consist to navigate 0-54 radius turns. As someone enjoys having the ability to run nearly all forms of motive power, my layout has a minimum radius of 0-72 on the mainlines.
The tender originally came with a replacement drawbar for 0-72 minimum layouts. I still have my extra drawbar and as mentioned, I want to swap it in. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The Lionel manual gives fairly vague instructions.
Attached are pictures of Lionel's instructions, my drawbars, the partially disassembled tender and the boards and wires that I need to deal with.
Can anyone who has done this before help me out here? This is the first time I've really opened up a locomotive or tender. I suppose my biggest questions are as follows:
How do I remove the 3-Pin Connector?
Why are the wires from the replacement drawbar not in their own 3-Pin Connector?
How do I place the new wires into the 3-Pin Connector harness?
Which wires from the replacement drawbar correspond with which wires from the original?
