While at York I want to buy the metal gears between the motor and truck that replace the plastic gears currently in the engine. One has failed and now I want to replace the gears in both trucks. So I get the right part, what do I ask for? Does this have a Lionel part number?
Ideally, I would like to give the engine to someone on Thursday to fix and pick it up on Friday. Does anyone do this service?
Thanks.
Ron
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Are you referring to gear #2321-76, idler gear, that's the only one I ever had fail?
The worm gear is 623-22 deep in the motor truck, mine have all been brass
and sometimes are chewed up by pulling too much weight.
Rod
Rod,
I do not know what part this is. I described the symptom (grinding noise) to a post war repair person and he stated that the most probable cause was a plastic gear in the drive mechanism that regularly fails. He stated this is a common failure for this engine and a long term fix is to replace that bad plastic part with a replacement metal part. He stated this part was metal in earlier trucks but the plastic one was added as a cost savings measure. I should have bought the parts from him at the time.
Since he stated it was a common problem I was hoping someone would be familiar with the issue and know what part I need to buy.
Ron
I ha ve repaired se veral of my engines, but the grinding noise you describe could be the armature rubbing
against the motor field, it would have to be run to see for sure.
I had one with a grinding noise that needed grease on the worm wheel bearing. Just ideas here.
Rod
If this is the gear on the axle that the armature sits up against then the part number for the brass gear is 623-22. Should be able to get them from The Train Tender. Might as well get several and have some spares.
Marty
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