Dennis, This was the first drive for the LL F7 before the pancake drive came along, so this is not an after-market kit. Pancake drives became all the rage circa 1975 after Tyco got the bright idea to put a slot car motor in a diesel truck, then Bachmann & LL followed suit.
I believe this is from the early 70's, and split gears on them are common.
Nelson
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> Hello,
> Bought this and intended to put the shell on another chassis. It looks unused. Don't know when made, but it has a Montgomery Ward price sticker on the original blue box.
> It ran for four feet, made evil noises and stopped. . When I opened it up (these simple locos were easy to take
apart), expecting to find the usual front truck metal wheeled, and the rear plastic, rubber tired, with pancake motor, see picture for what I found. What a surprise. I don't know that I ever knew about this conversion. It is obviously a commercial kit.
> What stopped it from running was that the idler gears had cracked apart, also the axle gears are intact, but cracked
> Anyway, I'd like to preserve it. Can anyone steer me to replacement idler gears and geared axle/wheel sets?
> I have added and album: Life-Like F7, because I can't seem to get pictures in any other way.
> Denis
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