Northwest Shortline makes replacement gears for the Climax:

#2802-6 HO Climax bevel gears, steel (6) $34.95

James Bartelt

Hello,

I have a 2 truck Shay that has both of its headlights burnt out. What is the best way to replace them? I need to know how to get the loco apart enough to replace them. Thanks.

Jim

Slow speed operation under DCC with the caps removed is still very good.

Jim

Hello All,

After further looking into this problem I have it fixed. I took the loco apart and found there was enough lube on all the gears. What I did notice when looking at the motor was that there was wires going under the motor and they are connected to some resistors. This had me puzzled. So out came the motor and underneath I found 3 little yellow caps on the motor. 1 across the brushes and 1 from each brush to the motor case. Well a light bulb went on in my head and I remembered how you have to cut the yellow caps off the boards on the Spectrum steamers for DCC operation. Well I cut all 3 caps off and now the loco runs very smooth with no chugging going down hill. Problem solved. I have a feeling this is a fix for all DCC onboard locos.

Jim

Hello,

I have a Bachmann GP40 with the DCC on board decoder that has a odd problem lately. It runs fine under DCC except going down grade with a train behind it. Then is seems to surge, speeding up and slowing down real jerky. Going up hill no problems. just down hill. Any clues what I should look for to get this running smoothly?

Jim