Hi just receive my new Marklin Pacific loco. I'm pretty new with z-loco steamers, I found that it is it running weird. Is it normal that it run a full rotation of the whells and then it want to stop,always at the same place, at slow speed it make looks the loco like the real thing, like a chug-a-log soud, but at higher speed it makes jerks the wagons back and forth, it looks like it wants to stall at each full rotation. Is that normal?
That is not normal. I would return it for a replacement, or contact a Marklin rep for servicing. It sounds like the drivers need to be quartered by your description. -Robert
i also had that problem. it is the running gears, just bend it ... (sorry if my explanation is a bit bad, but that`s my only way to explain it... i am gonna buy a pacific after christmas, so i am exited to get it!)
Bend the running gear! Hummmm? Sounds easy enough, Thanks Henrik for your reply. Anyone could elaborate? Returning the box is not realy an option, and I am sure I can repair it myself, I just need some little orientation to bend theis running gear. Thanks
check out the shaft that is going up and down,if the train stops when it is is higest up the screws in the weels connected to the shaft migth "crash" with the shaft on the top. (if you understanded that you are good in english! but thats my best way of explaning it...)
I am trying to find a pacific shematics, or maintenance drawing, so that we can pin point to the running gear, and to make sure that we are talking about the same thing. Thanks
I've uploaded a small 3.6 woo woo woo avi file, it show my problem. I took out the worm gear to make the 3 wheels free, and it show that after a full rotation, the wheels are jamming somewhere, but I'm not able to find where the jam is comming from. http://rapidshare.de/files/9692181/MVI_0427.AVI.html If anyone knows or had this problem before, please feel free to give me some advice. Thanks
you have to click on Free, on the bottom of the page, then wait 20 sec and enter the code it gives you to download the file. I know, it is complicated, but I share files for free with alot of other peoples using rapid share.
GOT IT!! It was the steam piston cylinder that did not have enough room for the shaft to enter properly; I had to drill the front of the piston cylinder. German engineer 0 Canadian engineer 1 Wow, at that price I would have thought that Marklin quality control would have been better.
hahahah! märklin quality! what a joke! they tax us for twice the producion price, just because they ar the biggest brand in MR! all my märklin models have a fault in it! CRAP!!!! BUT...they are the only one to prowide realictic priced steamers in z
