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Recently I replaced the wheels on my older Athearn BB diesels with nickle silver wheels in an attempt to eliminate wheel sparking.
After I replaced the wheels I hit them with a small shot of powdered graphite. As I began to running the diesels with the new wheel sets I noticed
that they were a little bit louder than before.
Should I have used a different lubricant?
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I have never lubed the wheels, only the gears
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The graphite may cause a grinding sound in the gears and/or it is not lubricating them so you are getting gear chatter. I use a light grease -- I think it is a white lithium, but I am not sure. The tube is at the club at the moment. I would suggest disassembling the trucks and cleaning out he graphite before adding grease.
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Sorry Tom,I meant lubricating the gears
Chuck-thanks for the tip.
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Bob, keep in mind that graphite is a conductor...
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Charlie not exactly sure what that means but I went to LHS and bought a tube a lubricating grease. Cleaned gear box best I could,put some grease on gears and let it run
and as per directions put on a little more. Then ran it on tracks. What a difference.
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I'm glad it worked out for you.
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