Oops looks like a bought a MEP 003a!

[TucsonVTXF]

looks like I pushed a lil hard and bought one out of Barstow, CA!!! looks like I will need to locate a air cleaner assembly!

 

[TucsonVTXF]

Barstow Recovery tomorrow!!!

 

[Isaac-1]

Keep us updated on how it turns out

 

[Jimc]

hmm never seen one by that manufacturer before.

 

[TucsonVTXF]

looks like it lived in the northeast before it was rebuilt by Ft. Drum in 05. Also it lived in OKC.

 

[1800 Diesel]

looks like I pushed a lil hard and bought one out of Barstow, CA!!! looks like I will need to locate a air cleaner assembly!

If you got the unit home already, be sure to roll the engine over to clear possible water out of the cylinders that have the exhaust 90 pointing up. Maybe turn it with the 5/8" socket by hand first and confirm nothing's seized up...

Also I just got in some MEP3s that may or may not be runners, so maybe I'll have an air cleaner ass'y available. It'll take a few weeks before I get to them though...working on some MEP4s now....

Kevin

 

[TucsonVTXF]

keep me in mind for the air cleaner I will also will need the 55 gallon drum adaptor and fuel rod.. I am not in a rush to get it running its more a project at this point..

 

[Jimc]

If you go on a big auction site and search jerry can bung cap, there is a guy selling the whole kit brand new with the pipes

 

[TucsonVTXF]

Just got the MEP home last night! 3 of the 4 glow plugs have the tab that is welded or soldered to the inner of the plug are undone. Can they be re attached? the unit was packed full of sand in the fins of the heads so all that has been pressure washed out... I tried to preview the lot of mep-002a's that are coming up for auction but they wouldn't let me do that with out an appointment and I just didn't have time to do that... Sorry....

 

[TucsonVTXF]

If you got the unit home already, be sure to roll the engine over to clear possible water out of the cylinders that have the exhaust 90 pointing up. Maybe turn it with the 5/8" socket by hand first and confirm nothing's seized up...

Also I just got in some MEP3s that may or may not be runners, so maybe I'll have an air cleaner ass'y available. It'll take a few weeks before I get to them though...working on some MEP4s now....

Kevin

Any status on if you have a air cleaner assy. available?

 

[gimpyrobb]

I bet your truck road like a caddy with that in there!

 

[TucsonVTXF]

plenty of traction in the snow with it in the back!!!

 

[TucsonVTXF]

Status update!!!!!!! built new battery cables and installed batteries, replaced all fuel filters including the fuel pump filters... cleaned the fuel tank and lines... cleaned the ip...cleaned all of the sand from the cooling fins of the engine, distribution box and oil cooler... replaced oil filter and installed fresh oil....received 4 new champion glow plugs and now waiting for their gaskets to arrive... now on hold for a air cleaner if 1800 Diesel has one... I am hoping to try the first start around the 8th!!!

 

[storeman]

You don't need the air cleaner to run it.
Jerry

 

[TucsonVTXF]

You don't need the air cleaner to run it.
Jerry

I would run it without one but I am waiting till everything is 100% ready to go!

 

[storeman]

Roger. I just thought an early start would guide you to other potential problems in case of weather turning on you. But I just noticed you are in Tucson, so you obviously aren't as sensitive to the hurricane season as many of us are.
Jerry

 

[TucsonVTXF]

no weather out here other than monsoon. I want to move back to Maine in a few years so I bought a mep out here where they are plentiful..

 

[Munchies]

no weather out here other than monsoon. I want to move back to Maine in a few years so I bought a mep out here where they are plentiful..

can't wait to get back to AZ

 

[TucsonVTXF]

Glow plug gaskets shipped today and will be here Monday! I am going nuts wanting to fire this thing off! Lol still in need of a air cleaner assy. Should I try to run it with out one?

 

[Jimc]

if it were me i would run it. not permanently of course but you can certainly run it to work out all the kinks in the unit. i would think the air cleaner assy would be easily available for delks, saturn, colemans or any of those places.