Lionel mikado chassie swap?

The drivers should be quartered. Lionel doesn't order repair parts from the factory or at least they haven't in the past. What they offer for repair parts are cannibalized from completed engines.

Pete

Two questions norton. 

One is how does one quarter the drivers and two if the chassis part is from a repaired engine. How likely is this striped gear problem going to recur its ugly head again?

Just to be clear, you should not have to quarter the drivers. They will have been pressed on correctly at the factory. There are quartering jigs you can buy from sources like Northwest Shortline. I used machinist squares and indicators to do mine.

I can't comment on the gear problem. I have some Legacy Mikados but no problems so far.

Pete

Norton reread your first post. Must have miss read what you ment.  So i can just swap the side rods and linkage over by just taking it off one chassies and repacing them on the other chassies. You are saying the wheels are already quarted when they are pressed onto the chassies. Correct?

I want to be very clear on this before tackling this project. I want to do this to save the repair rate that lionel charges. It lookes doable. Just needed the drivers question cleard up. Thanks.