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Lionel F3 front/rear trucks swappable?

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Lionel F3 front/rear trucks swappable?
Posted by Fordiesel69 on Saturday, January 9, 2010 4:16 PM

I was looking over the trucks closely and was thinking these can be swapped around with exception to (2) rivits holding the rear car coupler on.  Can these be swapped around?

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Posted by servoguy on Saturday, January 9, 2010 10:38 PM

 I just looked at an F-3 that is partially disassembled, and I agree, it looks like you could swap the trucks.  Buy why do you want to do this?

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Posted by Fordiesel69 on Sunday, January 10, 2010 12:58 PM

Rear trucks on ebay go a lot cheaper than the fronts.  I would like to start stocking up on spare parts / assemblies to keep my F3 running for a lifetime.

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