Recent content by jqc99

The leak is very slow, so I don' t know if it only leaks when it sits. I'll try to find some other colored dye for the fuel and give it a shot. As mentioned before, a different color dye than the oil in case the oil dye happens to show up when I try the fuel test. Then I might not know what's...

No stains at all when I got it. If there had been, I would have definitely questioned it. I'm wondering if maybe I spilled some oil in the enclosure at some point and it's just been slowly weeping out all this time. Maybe when I did an oil change. I don't ever recall spilling any, but that...

Lots of initial data points. I checked the dye with the UV light while it was still in the bottle first, to make sure it actually fluoresced. After I poured it in and ran it, I checked the dipstick and it was glowing like a glowstick. I also checked to see if the oil fluoresced at all by...

Well, I put the dye in Saturday morning and ran it for awhile, shut it down and brought it back into the outbuilding for UV inspection. Nothing found anywhere. I had turned the lights out to make sure it was dark in there too. I checked again yesterday and today. Nothing. Whatever it is it's...

Will do! And if nothing comes from dying the fuel, the only liquid left is coolant, but that's the wrong color I'm seeing. Well, my wife tells me...

Last night I did a visual inspection of the top of the head with a mirror, then poked all around with a paper towel. All dry. Lately everytime I'm around the genset, I'll open it up and look over it all again hoping to see something I'm just overlooking. It's frustrating to have such an odd...

Other than perriodic mainetenance runs, it actually sits most of the time as it only has 159hrs on it and I've had it for 9 years. When I've had outages and it runs for hours at a time, I don't notice any increase in leakage, although I haven't been specifcially watching for it because it's...

It is dry at the red arrow and all along the top of bottom horizontal ridge (and the ridge above it). That whole side of the engine is dry, as is the generator side. You are correct, it is "blooming" at the blue arrow. It's actually doing the same thing towards the generator head, but not as...

I'll start with something begnin. Whatever engine degreaser I used previously apparently didn't harm the paint, but I'm not going chance it this time. This isn't some high end vehicle that you want to keep pristine, but I don't want to wreck the paint with something overly harsh when there are...

I will take your advice and secure the batteries. When I had the originals, they were secured. Someone here (my apologies to who it was because I can't recall who) mentioned we could get away with these smaller batteries in warmer climates and I never got around to securing them. They start...

I did some checking this evening. The faint scratch you saw is only the paint cracking. Nothing on the metal. The fan blades have no oily residue, just a little dusty. I attached a picture of each side where I see the seepage/weeping oily residue and and additional picture of the inside...

Wow, good eye! I didn't even notice that. I'll check when I get home. Although that whole side has been dry, all the way to the bottom edge. I'm also going to check the fan when I get home. I'm going to do the UV leak detection, which likely won't be until this weekend. This has been...

I forgot I had previously tried to take some pictures of the underside. Here's an example. Is this normal?

Red paint... For the record I'm colorblind. When I look under the block I see quite a bit of red paint (my wife tells me it's red) in various areas under the block. Should it be there? The reason I ask is if it isn't, could the casting have been porous and the red paint came through from the...

I noticed the leak maybe within the past year. What first caught my eye was "wetness" around the lower seams of the enclosure. I figured it was just spilled diesel or oil from maintenance that was wicking its way out. After a couple months and it spreading more, I investigated and that's when...