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I had a couple of issues with my later run 2-8-0.  First was that the eccentric crank screw worked its way loose and rotated 90 degrees causing the left side drive train to jam.  The second was a pin that fell out of one of the smaller rods (dont remember which one, I replaced it with a small track nail, cut to length and smashed to look like a rivet.. good enough to work. The second loco was a 2-10-0 that would run a bit and jam, but ran fine in reverse. I ended up putting in new drivers and side rods, this corrected the issue.  It got slightly out of quarter for some reason (I think the drive rods whacked into some scenery on a friends layout that has some rocks that are too close to the tracks edge).  I still have the old drivers in a box if I ever decide to go back and fix them.   As far as fixing the 2-8-0, should be a pretty straight forward replacement of the drive wheels.  That having been said the gear box cover/pick up wipers tend to not want to go back to proper location.  I ended up buying a new underframe with wipers for both locomotives.
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