I had a look at the spares part list for the Footballer and it already has the five pole Ringfield so the motor should in theory be okay. You need to look carefully at the motor because between the motor brushes is a capacitor, a round brown disc like object, with a carbon ferrule fitted to both leads of the capacitor. This needs to be removed. You can do this by desoldering the capacitor or simply cut it off where it is soldered to the brush holders. This part is there as a supressor for RF noise which can affect you TV or radio reception but is unneccasary if you are using DCC and is also a voltage gobbler than can cause problems when programming. The other thing is the values you have programmed into the various CV's of the decoder can have a bearing on the locomotives running qualities. But first remove the capacitor then if you are still having problems tell us what values you have programmed into the Cv's of the decoder.
Ozzie21
QUOTE (keith @ 18 Jul 2006, 17:29)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>thank you all for your help .i will try to answer some of your questions the train is a hornby oo loco (the football team one everton)sorry but i dont know more about it than that.it is fitted with a lenz silver decoder.i am not sure what motor it as in it i dont know any thing about the different motors.the track is clean an the pick ups are.hope this can help you solve my problem.