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Kid, turn your car over.  The job is a little simpler if you gently spread the sides of the truck and pop the wheels out.  These cars used one of two styles of hornhook coupler.  The really old ones use a steel circular spring.  To remove the coupler take out the spring with a screw driver (you won't be using it again, so dont worry about damaging or losing it). After the spring is removed lift the back of the coupler up and forward over the square plastic post and pull out.  The newer style coupler has an integral plastic spring and just snaps around the plastic post.  Gently pull it forward and it will pop out.  The McHenrys have the same system as the newer horn hook coupler.  Just slide them in until they snap around the post.  Presto, You're done. The Kadee conversion system will give you a piece that slides into the truck that holds the KD coupler.  You have to cut out the plastic post and do a little filing to get it to fit.  You then drill a hole and secure the piece with the self tapping screw supplied with the kit.  A little harder, but really not too difficult or time consuming.  It is possible to do a Dr Frankenstein and cut off the head of the horn hook coupler and graft a knuckle end from a KD onto it.  I've done it a couple of times when I had to, but I don't reccomend it.  Its hard to get everything lined up correctly and glued together with enough strength to work properly.  You'll be a lot happier with the conversion couplers made for the jobJBB
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