My climax seems to have developed a problem with the universals to both trucks. It seems the 'U' piece that plugs onto the drive shaft slips when the loco runs into a curve.
Is this a common occurance with these locos and how is it rectified?
Cheers,
Russ
Never experienced this in many years of running Climaxes, and some of them run on quite tight curves, sorry I cannt suggest a cure, It seems strange that your problem occurs on BOTH trucks though, are your curves VERY tight say less than 15" radius?
No, not as tight as 15", closer to 17" maybe.
My Climax suffered the same symptoms, in addition to having the well known split gears problem, and my loco had only been run for about 10 feet back & forth on a straight test track at the time of purchase. The cracked universals have been mentioned enough on this list to indicate it is a fairly common issue, but unlike the gears, it can sometimes be fixed with a dab of superglue. Probably the best fix, however would be replacement of the cracked components, and the parts for mine were included in the gear replacement package provided by Bachmann during their gear replacement program. Contact their parts department for more information as mentioned in this post about the gear replacement program: <http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/board/index.php/topic,23566.0.html>.
Bill in FtL
Thanks for the information Bill. That'll give me something to work on ;D.