How To Install Kadee Knuckle Couplers On HO scale Freight Cars - Life-Like, Atlas, Athearn, Bachmann 

good explanation, always used #5's yrs back, but just got back into hobby after 30yrs. Always used styrene to adjust height, (the hard way), but this much simpler, kadee's are great.

I spent nearly $400.00 changing out wheel sets and body mounted Kaydee couplers from plastic wheels to metal ones. After all, trains in real life have metal wheels and not plastic. I did a little over 100 pieces of rolling stock. Took the time to weather each piece as well. For coal loads I used real coal smashed to bits with a hammer. All tenders have real coal in them. Cheers from eastern TN

Easy to understand explanations. I looked at some other videos on RU-vid and couldn’t figure out what to do, but your vid was just what I needed. Thank you!

Thank you for your video it has helped greatly in performing this action. This is from someone who has all the manual dexterity of a donkey with a toothpick. The video was clear and consise.

You are supposed to use some form of screw to hold the lid on so it’s easy to change couplers. Hope this helps you in the future. 😊

Absolutely fabulous tutorial, well shot, excellent V/O, a complete and easily understood explanation. Many thanks.

thank you for this video it was very very helpful

Next improvements: add some weight (lead), and replace wobbly wheelsets with metal wheels (like those Kadee sells). Trains run far better that way!

can't wait until part 2 hurry up please

Should've screws the coupler boxes on for a more support

Fantastic video very informative great job on it!

Great tutorial, very helpful!

I just got back in the hobby and spent good money on rolling stock and locamotives too find out different manufacturers couplers don't line up in height. Maybe the NMRA should monitor this a bit better instead of making locamotives look so "Prototypical " and expensive. Especially for younger modelers just getting into the hobby. Great video though. One word of advice, if your going too have magnets on your layout to automatically uncouple don't cut the hose but bend it slowly up so it doesn't hit the frogs.

i dont install the draftgear box, i just replace the hornhook with the springbox and knuckle coupler. works fine for me. if theres room ill super glue a box on the frame

So, an undershank can only fit an overshank, not another undershank, or does it depend on the make and model?

I'm wondering does kadee make ho gauge trucks