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HO Scale Lionel GTEL Turbine - Need to change drive gears in trucks

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HO Scale Lionel GTEL Turbine - Need to change drive gears in trucks
Posted by cadman11 on Monday, November 11, 2019 9:13 PM

After a fresh install of a Tsunami GTEL DCC Decoder the locomotive has developed the broken gear "ka-chunk, Ka-chunk" similar to Proto gears. My problem is I cannot seem to get the inner bottom of the trucks open to access the gears in order to replace them.

Seems no one including Lionel has any info regarding how to replace these gears.

Any help will be appreciated,

 

Thom

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, November 11, 2019 10:02 PM

A quick search didn't turn up any dis-assembly diagrams, but it did offer a little info on that locomotive

It appears that parts are available...all you need to do is figure out how to take it apart.

Wayne

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Posted by maxman on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 11:23 AM

I don't know if this would be helpful to you or not:

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/787027/Lionel-Veranda.html?page=19#manual

Might this be a case where the body needs to come off first?

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