bmoran4 posted:Good point on the crank @riki. This image is not the exact crank you have, but is representative and displays the alignment pins that must properly seat in the wheel:
Those pins must rest in the depressions in this representative drive wheel:
@harmonyards, following the full thread, you would see it has been determined @riki is building off of a 6-18005 frame, thus the postwar and 1990 service diagrams (that even I posted and suggested before narrowing down what was had), are not applicable. We all should be working off of the 6-18005 as broken down here: https://www.lionelsupport.com/...94-8d1d-48591eea334f
Clearly he’s working on on a 18005 chassis....the part no.s referenced are from the 1990 service publications. ( date of mfg.) as you and riki have possibly pointed out, this may be as simple as the eccentric not sitting in the slot properly. However, just because it’s on Lionel’s web site, doesn’t mean the parts are 100% accurate....there very well could be superseded part no’s since they don’t list the original 1990 eccentric bolt part no. by they’re own service publications.....surely you’ve run into this before.....therefore, if his eccentric crank is sitting in the slot, then he’s clearly got a parts incompatibility issue.....as I’ve said, not all 700E parts are created equally.....Pat
