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Hello all,

I picked up a pair of Weaver modern 40' Tank Cars with an early 20th Century Dow Chemical paint scheme (pretty cool if you ask me). I found out that the operating lobster claws don't play nice with Lionel's lobster claws. Is there a best recommended manufacturer to replace the trucks with? Not sure why I haven't bought Weaver sooner, and when I start, they have gone out of business .

Bobby

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Bobby does this tank car have die-cast trucks on it now. The only thing you have to do is change the couplers assy. out. They will work on plastic or die-cast trucks. I had to change some on my weaver cars with die-cast trucks to plastic couplers because the die-cast couplers has problems not opening up far enough to couple or uncouple and there is a screw in bottom of truck that comes out real easy then you can change coupler. Then when you put screw back in don't tighten up all the way or truck will not turn.  

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