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CW C W BurfleOGR Forum Member

 

That part was never available for separate sale. it is trapped between the metal side plates of the motor truck. As far as I know, to replace the part, you would need to un-stake the metal parts, and re-stake them, keeping every thing square.

That part is common to several motor trucks. Which one do you need to repair?

New, old stock ALCO trucks are readily available and run $10-$20 (less armature and brush plate).
You could always buy one of those, and break it down to get the part you seek.

S shawnOGR Forum Member
Originally Posted by C W Burfle:

 

That part was never available for separate sale. it is trapped between the metal side plates of the motor truck. As far as I know, to replace the part, you would need to un-stake the metal parts, and re-stake them, keeping every thing square.

That part is common to several motor trucks. Which one do you need to repair?

New, old stock ALCO trucks are readily available and run $10-$20 (less armature and brush plate).
You could always buy one of those, and break it down to get the part you seek.

 

S shawnOGR Forum Member
Originally Posted by C W Burfle:
 
Understood CW,
 
I've replaced this on a couple of my MPC diesels. Installing a brass worm gear,
metal drive gear and cutting the plastic pinion studs on the insert. Then replacing with metal studs inserted in the steel side frame. Then installing brass pinion gears.

 

That part was never available for separate sale. it is trapped between the metal side plates of the motor truck. As far as I know, to replace the part, you would need to un-stake the metal parts, and re-stake them, keeping every thing square.

That part is common to several motor trucks. Which one do you need to repair?

New, old stock ALCO trucks are readily available and run $10-$20 (less armature and brush plate).
You could always buy one of those, and break it down to get the part you seek.

 

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S shawnOGR Forum Member
Originally Posted by ADCX Rob:
 
 Adding bronze bearings on the plates where plastic was used. When inserting the brass worm gear, replacing the plastic one is a bit tricky. I broke one or 2 plastic roller housing doing the change.
 
Unfortunately, as one goes along some tricks are learned. I now press the brass gear on the shaft outside of the unit. Pull it off, then repress in the housing. 
 
I'm making these things non-plastic for the bearings and pinion gear shafts.
All the bearings are now located in the side plate.
 
Amazing , that I lost a couple of housings changing the bearing and not modifying the plastic housing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

If you are just cutting off the axles anyway, can you use the part(s) you already have, or are you building these trucks from the ground up?

 

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S shawnOGR Forum Member
 
Jim,
 
Harry came through. What a nice gentlemen. He was willing to take a couple of the frames out of his repair inventory.
 
Thank You
 
 
Originally Posted by jim sutter:

I would start with this man.

 

HARRY J. CLEAVER

41 WOODLAND DRIVE
JACOBUS, PA
17407
Phone: (717) 428-2673
cleaverstrainrepair@comcast.net

Factory Trained Authorized Service Station

 

Also John O'Neil

2960 S. DURANGO #117
LAS VEGAS, NV
89117
Phone: (702) 254-9475
jotraineng@aol.com

Lionel
Authorized Dealer

 

 

CW C W BurfleOGR Forum Member



quote:
Actually, the parts use to be available for separate sale via lionel. I was also able to get these from a parts dealer in the past.




 

That's interesting.

I took a look at the Lionel service manual. I don't even see the part shown on any of the explosion diagrams of power trucks that use it. The truck frame is shown, but it wasn't assigned a part number.

Maybe the parts were released later. Or maybe they surfaced when Lionel held their auction and cleared out surplus parts (lots of previously unavailable stuff showed up), or maybe your parts dealer broke down trucks for their component parts.

I should have know better than to make my comment about them not being available.

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