Replacing Your Locomotive's Traction Tires; Replacing Your Locomotive's Headlamp - Lionel 2-8-2 Mikado Owner's Manual

Maintaining and servicing your locomotive

Replacing your locomotive's traction tires

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our locomotive is equipped with traction tires. This means that two of the drive wheels are fitted
with rubber traction tires to enhance tractive effort so your locomotive can pull many cars at
once. Lionel has provided extra traction tires to replace the installed traction tires if they ever wear
out. The traction tires are replaced by unscrewing the drive rod screws using the supplied wrench. See
Figure 6. Slip off the old traction tire and remove it from under the drive rod. Place the new traction
tire (Lionel part no. 6000222108) on the wheel and re-tighten the drive rod screw.
Figure 6. Replacing traction tires

Replacing your locomotive's headlamp

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our locomotive is illuminated by several small lamps. During the course of normal opera-
tions, they may require replacement.
We recommend that you have the lamp replacement done at an authorized Lionel Service Center.
See the Instructions for Obtaining Service section on page 12 for more information.
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