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I picked up a sd40t-2 6-28540 it has an interesting issue. no sound no smoke and no rear lights. what could the issue be ? I was thinking it might be a part of a MU rear engine facing backwards that would turn the sound off and the rear light. and if whoever had it before didn't run smoke in the MU wouldn't that turn the smoke unit off also. explaining all the issue's ? Once it get here this week Ill know more just looking to see if I am correct this could be the issue.

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Check that the switches for smoke and sound are on located on the bottom of the train.

Then switch to program and perform a reset. Assign an ID.(Manual available at Lionel)

Power off, switch to run.

Then test.

 

If no joy, go inside and reseat the boards and check the harness connectors.

Test again.

 

That's the easy stuff. I hope your lucky on this one.

Last edited by Moonman

I looked at it this way 189 to the door. if it needs all new boards I'm still at about 300 so I should be good. funny when I checked the shipping it comes out of New Baltimore Michigan I grew up there right next to chesterfield where lionel was  I'm going to use it for a MU anyways so shouldn't be a big issue.

 

 

 

Last edited by Jhainer

soundboard and rear light there doesn't seem to be any fixture to hold a light either. but I can live with no rear light for now. the smoke unit has a small gasket from the funnel to the shell I need to make one to replace it .it was torn and half on. good looking engine tho ran it as a MU with the sd90. looked great but found an issue tonight also. I put in the tie between the two levels of my layout and not I don't think I have enough power. lights dim when running a train even more when running 2 lights in the engines by the way.

one section of the layout if I blow the horn I get a quick horn blow then a clicking sound.

 

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