I have a genesis 282 light and it shorts out usually on curves. The wires coming out the bottom of the cab and plug in to the tender are the problem maybe a bad connection at the motor. How do you take the thing apart or the cab off ? The instructions don't help much.rambo1...
rambo,
Does it short out in both directions or only one direction? In other words, if you flip the locomotive around and run it through the same curve in forwards in the other direction (e.g. It was moving CW but now is moving CCW), does it still short?
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Search further back in this forum and you will find detailed instructions on how to disassemble and repair this engine. They may be back 20 pages or so by now.
Sounds definitely like the infamous loose wires under the cab hanging by a thread, and when the loco goes around a curve it pulls on the wires. You gotta get in there and fix it. Here's how:
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/184909.aspx
Have no fear, just follow these instructions. I have popped my Mike boiler three times and it's easier every time.
thanks alot you guys have helped me alot .rambo1..