Kato replacement part

[laconj]

I have an old Kato F7 with a broken coupler box from a drop. The truck replacement number is 929133, which is discontinued. Is there a later model which would fit and still be available? Thanks, John

[Kisatchie]

If you can't find one that works, you might explore body-mounting a coupler.


Hmm... does Kiz have a
tutorial he can share with
you? Ha ha ha, not a
chance...

[mecgp7]

I have the complete truck minus the side frame and bronze parts. So, it is the gear tower with the coupler pocket, the gears and the axles w/wheels. Yours if you want it. PM me.
Clint

[nkalanaga]

Body mounting the front coupler is easy, as MT made a conversion kit for it.  If the two trucks are the same, and it's the rear that's broken, move the unbroken front to the rear, and body mount the front, if you want a body mounted coupler.  However, you'd probably have to order it from MT, and with shipping, it might not be cost effective.

Since Clint has offered a replacement part, that would certainly be the easiest solution!
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Correction:  Peteski's comment below is right.  The front coupler CAME body mounted, so there is no front pocket to move to the rear.  The MT adapter kit is to convert a body mounted Rapido, not designed to accept a knuckle coupler, to a standard MT coupler.

It's been so long since I converted mine that I was thinking the front pilot was truck mounted, like on the original 1960s PA1.

[peteski]

I'm confused here. Original post didn't mention if it was front or rear coupler. front coupler is body (plow) mounted.  Front truck does not have a coupler pocket.  Rear truck has a coupler pocket on it and since the body has a very short overhang at the rear, body-mounting rear coupler is a bit difficult.

[rschaffter]

Here is a how-to I wrote on bodymounting couplers on a Bachmann Shark, which should work on the rear of the Kato F if the gap between the frame halves is larger than a 00-90 screw...

http://z11.invisionfree.com/N_Scale_Talk/index.php?showtopic=278

[mmagliaro]

Part 929133  is a silver, rear truck for a "revised" Kato F7.  These were the ones after
the initial "early" F3/F7 run and before the DCC run.    That's what that number is if you check it on
Kato's website.

Yardsaletrains.com has a lot of hard-to-find spare Kato and Atlas parts (I can hear the stampede already....)

They do not have this truck, but they DO have a lot of F unit rear-truck FRAMES, which is the part
that has the coupler box on it.   Do you have the exploded parts diagram for your engine?  Maybe it
shows a separate part number for that plastic snap-over truck frame, and you could match it against
the part numbers at Yardsaletrains.    They have some silver rear truck frames, but the part number is
KN7-6902, which is one of those "internal only" Kato part numbers because those were never sold as individual
parts on their web site.  But the exploded diagram with your engine may show that number.