So far I have taken the pilot off and created my first shim for it. The thickness of the styrene is .40. I said incorrectly said .60 in an earlier post. Obviously the pilot has to be disconnected from the trucks. From all of the conversions I have seen, only one shim was used between the pilot and underside of the locomotive.
I am using Kadee #746 couplers for this locomotive to insure it takes my curves with no problems. I tried to temporarily install the coupler using a second gear box for a shim. Even with that the coupler is too high. What am I doing incorrectly?
The third photo shows where I have trimmed back the part of the truck so that it doesn't hit the gear box for the coupler. I apologize I don't know the proper name for that section of the truck. The same photo also shows the holes created for the pilot shim. Am I on the right track? If I could get a step by step run through of the process, this might help.
