H1000 posted:Captaincog posted:I recently had my MTH 20-2595-1 Harley Davidson SD60 with the 5 volt board die. I just took it over to one of the only places in SoCal that does MTH work at all. I could likely do it but I was not willing to risk ordering a board set with no warranty since I am not a certified MTH tech. I can work on Lionel and TMCC ERR stuff so oh well. It is worth it to be since I did some horse trading for the engine. Now back to working on my old tech Dorfan.......
Just curious, in some case would it be cheaper to buy a new Premier SD60 and swap the shell? I've done this a couple of times on the Railking line but not sure how well it would work on the Premier end.
I did look at that idea but aside from having just put on some traction tires there was nothing else wrong with the drivetrain. In fact the night before it died I ran it just fine on my layout with no issues. I took it to a show where my friend was running Fastrack loops using a z4000 and it moved a little with no sound then stopped running completely. I also had a sound power board let go on a Lionel Dash8 but I repaired that easily myself. When I looked at the cost of a new sd60 it was more than the cost of the boards and likely labor so might as well fix what is there.
