Replacing Lionel Mi-Jack crane plastic pinon gear with brass gear

If you are asking about the yellow cover, there are 4 screws on the bottom side.

Thanks Chuck. I was afraid of that. Will have to get right angle screw driver. Any idea where I can find one small enough.

Don't know why you would need that. Just turn the Mi-Jack up-side-down and the screws are easily reachable.

Chuck,

I've attached two pictures of the underside of the Mi-Jack. The first one barely shows all four of the screws I think I need to remove. The second picture shows two of the four screws that attach the Mi-Jack to the top, lifting box. I don't have a regular screw driver that will do the job. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong box!

Hal

@HMS4935 posted:

Chuck,

I've attached two pictures of the underside of the Mi-Jack. The first one barely shows all four of the screws I think I need to remove. The second picture shows two of the four screws that attach the Mi-Jack to the top, lifting box. I don't have a regular screw driver that will do the job. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong box!

Hal

You are looking at the correct place, however........

If the frame jammed up against it blocking the hole- that's what you are doing wrong.

Again the mistake here is lower it first while upright, and THEN attempt to take the screws out while manually- because you have it upside down, lifting the frame out of the way.

Again, side view, you need to start this with the crane lowered down- even if you have to assist the gear train manually.

Then when you flip the crane upside down, gravity would make the gantry back up close to the top blocking the holes so you need to manually hold the gantry section up (again, you are upside down) allowing you to either use a short screw driver, or a longer one at an angle.

What Vernon said.

Thanks guys. I'm going to do what I should have done in the first place: Operate the crane!

Hal