I've been in the hobby for years, and I'm embarrassed to ask this as I should know the answer to this...how on earth do you get the side rods off to change the traction tires? I've done this on Lionel engines which come with a tool to remove the hex head nuts holding them to the wheels. But they went bad for the first time on an MTH engine (an long tender PRR Decapod, circa 2003) and there is no tool in the box to remove them. Do I need to go get a metric socket wrench or what?
Thanks!
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A Metric 5mm nut driver will probably do it or a full set of metric nut drivers to 8mm.
Mikey
I have a set of Wiha metric drivers for this task and many others.
Here's the set I have: http://www.amazon.com/Wiha-265...etric+nut+driver+set
Go back a page or two and there's a long discussion on this same subject. It comes to the same conclusion as Gunrunner John's post above - the best tool is a Wiha nutdriver.
eaNeal,
FYI, you don't need to remove the side rod.You just have to remove the hex head screw holding the side rod to the wheel. You then slip the new tire past the side rod and around the wheel.
It sounds more difficult than it actually is.
Thanks for the help guys. It's not that I don't know how do to this (and Barry, you are right, it is easy, at least when I did it on Lionel engines.) It was just the lack of a nut driver that I expected to come with the engine that threw me.
Thanks again!
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