Lionel Early 90s Dash 8 40C gear mesh issues??

Surprised and disappointed that after almost 6 months, no one has had any reply to this question.  Maybe these engines are too old? They sure don't have much run time.

The die cast tiny shaft that supports the gear wears rapidly. I used a piece of tubular brass rod with the ID the size of the tiny shaft. Cut it to length and use some CA glue to hold it to the shaft. Whatever the OD of the brass rod is,is what you will need to drill out the gear hole to. Jim Barrett has a video of this on the OGR video section. Perhaps the moderator can chime in and tell you how to find it. Good luck. 

Thanks for the reply Rod.

I'm going to have to keep this in mind for future reference, since I had a few of the LTI era Dash 8 B's and C's along with the SD40's. I didn't even know this issue was a thing until now.

romiller49 posted:

The die cast tiny shaft that supports the gear wears rapidly. I used a piece of tubular brass rod with the ID the size of the tiny shaft. Cut it to length and use some CA glue to hold it to the shaft. Whatever the OD of the brass rod is,is what you will need to drill out the gear hole to. Jim Barrett has a video of this on the OGR video section. Perhaps the moderator can chime in and tell you how to find it. Good luck. 

I wish some would chime is because I have not been able to find that link??

Thomas, even though they slop around they still run but they will not power one of the axles at times. So hard to know at first.