So I am trying to get this to run well on a temporary set up and having issues. First issue was the fiber plate holding the pick ups had sagged over time, and not pushing them to the center rail causing eratic operation I put some shims under to locate them closer to the middle rail and also found the roller I mentioned in previous post was just re-assembled wrong by some previous owner and corrected it. With those fixes in, the engine runs well except for the pilot truck and trailing truck. After a couple of minutes of running, the motor started getting warm and gave it a break
Back to the truck issues, they seem to always be catching on the locomotive body. One solution could be to shim the loco body up a bit to get the clearance, but surely this must work alright on other’s locomotive. I assume Ives used O42 radius track? I also compare the wheel spacing to an mth 1134 and it looks close. It also looks like the MTH engine is higher allowing for more clearance. Any ideas here would be welcome.
It looks the steam chest casting is not consistent, where it looks lower in the front then the back, even though the top edge looks level.
Thanks!
