Hi gang. First I’d like to give Rob Kluz and all the folks at AZL all my thanks and greeting for sending me that fast chassis halves for my broken GP38. But as now I’m the happy owner of a fair inventory of spare parts, all of them when adequately assembled shaping a chassis, I’m just needing a procedure to follow. Especially motor’s positionning in order to follow fair polarity, for the loco running in the good direction. I’ve searched something looking like an instruction sheet on AZL website, but I didn’t find any. Any trick helping me to reassemble my chassis would be welcome. Dom
Dom, it’s fairly easy to reassemble the Gp38. There’s only one way to position the motor. I don’t think you can’t mess up. Use one of you assemble geeps as a guide. The hard part it’s putting all the bushing in place. Make sure they are seated properly, or you won’t be able to to close the two halves properly.
Thank you John. I don’t feel very comfortable with the idea of disassembling a good working loco just to use it as a model, but if I don’t find any other solution I’ll do that. Too bad these overall excellent AZL locos come without any instruction sheet... Dom
I am not saying disassembled the loco. Just look how the motor tabs sticks out. That will give you a reference.
It’s not that hard. It took me less then five minutes to take it apart, take the pictures, and reassembled it.
Shamoo737. I took the one I had apart to replace the broken side! Had a little trouble but it's running fine now! It was those little Square pieces on the end of the worm gear kept wanting to move. thanks for the shots. up and running!!! And thanks also goes out to Rob for sending the parts! It was weird that these chassis were just falling apart there were many cracks in the cast. the other one I have still running so I figured to leave it a lone to it breaks. it's still running great!
Make sure the squares are seated properly by rotating the worm gear. If they are not, they will pop up when the worm gear is rotating.
OK John, thank you so much, very useful indeed. Was rather busy these last 3 weeks but in the next days I should find the time to work on my unit. Thank you so much ! Dom
