
If you are having three driven axles,
remove the drive unit from the subframe
and clip the third axle into place. Replace the
drive unit in the subframe, now engaging all six
of the bearing carriers into their slots.
Holding the 'four-wheeled' part of the drive
unit such that the tops of all four of its
bearing carriers are level with the top of the
subframe sides, check that the third axle has
at least ±0.5mm of vertical travel.
If this is not the case, check for free
movement of the individual carriers in their
slots and then, if required, open out the
Bachmann bearings a little more, on this axle
only, up to a maximum of 2.3mm.
That concludes the test. Unclip the axles
from the Drive Unit and store them in their
respective containers.
We now use one of the inner or outer axles, still with its bearing carriers fitted, to
check for lateral play. If you are using ready assembled wheelsets and have one
wheel already fitted to each axle, you will need to vary the operations slightly to suit.
Fit the wheels to the axle to the correct back-to-back measurement. Test fit the axle
in the bogie subframe to determine the amount of lateral play. There should be just a
little; enough to allow the wheelset to tilt such that the wheel on one side is raised about
1mm with respect to that on the other. If necessary, dismantle the wheelset and fit full-
and half-width 2mm washers (supplied on the fret) between the bearing carriers and
wheels, until this condition is met. If there is insufficient play, even with no washers
fitted, reduce the inner width of the wheel bosses accordingly.
Record the washer configuration you arrived at and dismantle the wheelset. If you had
to reduce the inner wheel bosses, repeat the operation on the remaining wheels. Take
off an extra 0.5mm on the wheels for the two centre axles, subject to not going beyond
the line of the inner wheel rim.
Now we can fit the Bachmann gears to the new axles and assemble the wheelsets.
Do the following for each axle.
If you have one wheel already fitted to the axle, slide on the required number of
washers adjacent to that wheel, then the bearing carrier (ears facing the wheel), then
a Bachmann drive bearing.
If it is a driven axle, slide one of the Bachmann final drive gears into position centrally.
The gear should be a tight fit on to the axle, sufficient to transmit drive forces without
slipping.
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