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chaser at their discretion. If it is decided that smoke units will
be installed, carefully follow the installation and operating
instructions provided by the smoke unit manufacturer. Genesis
does not warranty any defects in these smoke units or damage
that may occur to the locomotive through their use.
Installation is very easily accomplished: Slide the smoke unit
down the smoke stack until it engages the electric contacts
inside the boiler. Add a minimal amount of smoke fluid to the
unit and operate the locomotive normally. It may take a short
amount of time when running to heat up the smoke unit before
smoke is produced. This is normal.
Coupler Installation
The Athearn Genesis
TM
Big Boy model comes with the swivel
coupler installed on the pilot. As on the prototype engines, you
can have the coupler exposed on the pilot, or swing it around
so that the pilot has no coupler in use. The "coupler" on this
part is a dummy (non-operating) coupler.
An operating coupler can be installed on the pilot. Simply
unscrew and remove this dummy coupler. Once removed,
you will note that there are two threaded nuts. An operating
coupler should fit in the rear most hole with no clearance
problems, and the coupler and it’s box can be attached using
screw #212 (supplied, see drawing). If, however, your choice
of coupler does have clearance problems when mounted in the
rear threaded nut, simply mount it to the threaded nut further
forward.
Replacing the Traction Tire or
Replacing the Traction Tire Equipped Driver
To provide tractive effort that rivals the prototype, two trac-
tion tires are factory installed on last set of drivers of the rear
engine. Replacement traction tires #210 are available from
your local hobby retailer.
To replace a worn or loose traction tire:
• Remove the crank pin nuts from the traction tire equipped
driver.
• Loosen the remaining crank pin screws from the other
drivers.
• Remove the eccentric crank, main rods, bushing and drive
rod from the crank pin on the traction tire equipped driver.
• Slide off the traction tire and replace with a new tire.
• Reverse the procedure of disassembly.
To replace a driver:
• Remove the crank pin screw and nuts from the side rods.
• Remove the side rods and eccentric cranks.
• Remove the retaining plate from the bottom of the engine
by removing the three retaining plate screws.
• Remove the wiper assembly.
• Remove the driver assembly.
• Replace with new driver assembly making sure that the
quartering matches the other drivers on the engine.
• Assemble in the reverse order that was used in the disas-
sembly.
Use of the exploded drawings in this booklet will greatly assist
in the above listed procedures.
Replacement parts are available from Athearn Trains to the
original purchaser for warranty repairs only. A warranty reg-
istration form must be on file at Athearn Trains to honor any
parts requests.
Jack Pfeifer photo