I'm hoping for some expert input from GGG, GRJ, Barry, and Marty on this.
I've got a N&W Y6B 20-3009-1 that I have started upgrading from PS1 to PS3 with the new 50-1911 PS32 kit.
This engine was purchased new, by me, I believe directly from MTH back in 1994/5. I think I may have even driven to Columbia, MD to pick it up. It has been in my possession ever since. It has been under glass for 20 years. It might have run once or twice, maybe for 30 seconds - 1 minute.
I changed the old white battery out with a new green one. Powered up with ZW on test track. Forward, Reverse, lights, no smoke - assumed either powered off or no smoke fluid for 20 years. Since I was tearing apart, figured I'd see the smoke unit when I got it opened.
Did the tender upgrade. No issues. All wires dressed.
Then I cracked open the engine for the first time ever, to start work on the engine. I stopped, as I did my A and J over the past month, and this one was very different. Photos attached.
1) What I assume is the CV board is not mounted in top of the boiler shell. It's mounted above the drive shaft. Wasn't expecting that.
2) Leaked residue, what I assume is from the Capacitor? Below the CV board and onto the frame of the engine.
3) Darkened areas on the PWB near the location of the wires going to the smoke unit, but only the pwb connectors, not the wire connectors. But the board is dis-colored, too. Maybe I ran it longer than a couple minutes 12 years ago....but I don't think so....
4) No fan-driven smoke unit - I assume this is a Seuthe.
Has anyone seen this before? Should I be concerned? Lights lit before I upgraded. Smoke unit didn't work, but it's a Seuthe.
I assume I need to get a MTH PS2 smoke unit to replace the Seuthe - any part number recommended? Any idea how to get it in there? Anyone have pictures of what they did?
Any suggestion on the CV board? Clean-up the leaked residue and use as-is?
How about the headlight? Do most folks just leave it alone and run it off the CV board, vs. run it off the new DCS control? On my A, I replaced it and ran it off DCS. But this looks like a lot of trouble to do that.
Anything else I should be concerned about before going any further?
Thanks in advance for all your outstanding help.
Dave
