Locomotive repowering

[bnsfjason]

I have an Athearn GP60B and I want to change the current motor which is too noisy, what I was hoping is that someone could tell me what would be a good replacement motor that would be much quieter and probably has more power and it wouldn't affect the decoder that came with it.
I know there is a bunch of motors to choose from but which one would be recommended

 

[jbaakko]

If you're going to go that route check out the Aline motors. But you might want to look at the locomotive, I don't think all of the noise in the newer RTR's is the motor, but rather the drive shafts rubbing.

 

[IronBeltKen]

Somebody on this forum [can't remember who though] mentioned that the six-axel Athearns can't really be quieted, because of how the drivetrain is designed. One example of this type of noise is where a loco is relatively quiet moving forward, but growls whenever you run it in reverse.

A lot of people have said they've been able to quiet various 4-axel Athearns though (F-units, SW-7's, and a GP38-2 come to mind).

 

[Smoke]

There is a thread on trains.com about ways to quit down Athearn RTR locos using 2-26. I have some and it does "shut um up". Here is a link to the thread.
Give me a sec....I gotta find it back.

I'm back, here is the link to the thread.
http://www.trains.com/TRC/CS/forums/1130080/ShowPost.aspx

-Smoke

 

[jbaakko]

Smokes post might do the trick.

 

[bnsfjason]

Thanks Smoke, I will try that for sure, now if it won't solve the problem which I think it will, I was wondering if there is another locomotive that has the same characteristics as the GP60 frame and details of the trucks,and what ever comes close to details of the GP60, I was thinking of maybe I could do some modifications to some other frame to accept the body of the GP60B

 

[jbaakko]

Proto 2000 GP60...

 

[bnsfjason]

Proto2000 GP60,
Thanks, I've never thought of that