So today didn't quite go the way I had planned. Early this morning, around 5am, I left the house and drove up to MD, North of Baltimore, to look at a 2000 802A. It supposedly ran, but was not making power. About half way there, around the time I entered MD, I started to feel a little bit of a wobble. Not in the steering wheel interestingly enough. I was making good time and had hardly any traffic, so I slowed down a bit and got through the tunnel and was about 15 miles from my exit on I95 when the wobble got a lot worse. So I started limping along in the emergency lane trying to make it to the next exit as I really didn't want to be stranded on I95. Well, after about a mile it got really bad and I had to pull over.
Popped the left front hub cap, everything was good. Popped the right front, and this is what I found:
So 5 studs had broken off and the lug nuts on the last 3 were very loose. So needless to say, I could not continue and I was about 3 hours from home. So I called Mike, the guy that had the 802 I was going to look at and he was really cool and threw some tools in his truck and headed my way. We agreed that working on the truck on the side of I95 was not ideal, so I called AAA to have them come and flatbed the truck to his place.
I very happy I didn't loose the wheel in the tunnel that was about 10 miles before this. That would have been a real mess, even at 7:30 am on a Saturday.
After Mike picked me up, and we headed to the auto parts store to pick up 8 new studs and 8 new lug nuts. Once we got the parts, we hang out at his place waiting for the tow truck to show. He had a bunch of military trailers, including a large communications one, which was insulated and way cool. He used it for camping.
About 20 minutes later, the tow truck showed up with my poor truck on the back:
Popped the wheel off, and knocked out the studs:
New studs installed and wheel back on:
The really nice thing about a dually is that there is an extender on the front hub that makes replacing the studs real easy with no need to remove the brake caliper or anything.
Once the truck was back on the road, we headed over to his other property, which is where the generator was. Since it was now much later in the day, and given all the help he had provided, the only thing I checked was that the quad windings were good. They were and measured around around 1.1 ohm. The reason I was concerned about the quad winding, was that this unit did not have the fuse mod and he started it up about 3 weeks ago before posting it for sale. It ran fine, but was not making power. He had it sitting for about 2 years. When he ran it back then, it DID make power.
So we load the generator on my truck and I head back home. Made it back safely with no further incidents.
Unit is nice and clean and all panels are straight:
Only has 32 hours on it:
Inside looks brand new, but no fuse mod:
It looks like it was reset back in November 2015:
And:
Are the above filters what they used when resetting these machines?
If so, why would they not have done the fuse mod during the reset in 2015?
Needless to say, I didn't get a chance to play with the 2007 that is seemingly only firing on one can.
Tomorrow I have most day to fiddle with the 2007 and this newly acquired 2000 with 32 hours on it after the reset. I picked it up for $900, which I think was decent, assuming it won't take much to get it to make power and it otherwise being a really clean unit with only 32 hours on it.
