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A bad injector can sound like rod knock. It sounds like it is not running on all cylinders and tht bluish smoke is probably raw fuel due to a bad injector. Recommend pulling the injectors and have a diesel shop test them. Not very expensive. Too much unburned fuel can wash down a cylinder and...

That is good advice. I bought the Kill a Watt and it has come in very handy. As far as your gage goes the sending unit is a black box on the right side panel inside the control box behind the output switch. My gage was acting funny, drifting, and through advice of people here I replaced the...

Ask Napa, a mower shop, or some garage for an old belt that's plenty long, take it home confirm it is 1/2 and sits on the pully correctly, cut it to length to fit with the alternator or belt adjustment about 1/4 to 1/3 from closest in then take it to NAPA and they can put it on their belt...

Describe the condition when running before shutdown, loaded, hot, cold, how long running, etc. Was it smoking at all when shutdown or surging? Does the shutdown solenoid on that unit close the fuel or does it trip a spring that snaps it shut? Was the fuel rack all the way off? The surging...

That stuff seems to evaporate and leave a gum residue when left around for a while. Recommend a good flush with #2 diesel. The aux pumps on my 016B's were both gummed up. One freed itself up the other needed disassembly and solvent flush to make it work. Most diesels will run on K1 and the...

suggest getting a height adjustable pintle insert for your receiver. I've never towed one but I would guess the height is at least 22 inches or more. the military does not have any low or small vehicles to tow them with. Check your owners manual for the car as you might have a specific...

Anyone have experience with one of these? Seems like good units but more high tech and I wonder about support from the forum and parts. They seem more rare. Was wondering about putting some big battery on the 952B and a big inverter. Some of the inverters have auto start / stop on the gen...

I bid on several and watched on the sideline after a spell. The Lansing units seemed reasonable. There were a lot that were reconditioned and looking very very good. The Lansing units, the Ft. Meade units and the Jacksonville units many with their 2nd ID plate and mint control panels, stored...

I would not be concerned about the compression until it has spun fast enough to start and is white smoking, knocking and not starting. The rings can be sticky from sitting and valves do not always seal that well at slow hand crank speeds. Cylinder walls can have light rust on them causing low...

Hi, Thanks for posting that up. Others chime in if I mis speak. It looks to me that the #6 winding would be represented by the coil with the 9 - 12 terminals. If that is true then for the 120vac single phase mode the main lug terminals are coincident with the 9-12 coil. Therefore, the...

Hi Jerry, Got to look in your manuals for the connection diagrams. Not the big complicated wiring diagrams. Usually where the manual talks about which output lugs to use for the selected voltage and phase. They depict the windings like zig zag lines and show them arranged in a triangle...

I'm not sure about the 002 / 003 but they do take the outlets off of one of six windings. This is a direct take off upstream of the reconnection switch. On the 016b which has three windings the outlets are taken off of winding #1, T1-T4. The interesting thing is that in the 120VAC single...

I'm not too familiar withyour particular gen set but I know a little about generators and a lot about diesels since I used to design them as an engineer. First, an opinion as to where to start. I assume you are not overloading the engine when running on 240 or 120. There should never be a...

The small 3kw -10kw gen sets many on here have are rated to be at full rated load .8 PF at a load meter indication of 80%. And rated to be at full rated load 1.0 PF at a load meter indication of 100%. Since these small sets are often run at max load it is handy to know the PF in order to...

Isaac, You make a good point about the aging of the winding insulation. This makes a good case for load testing at the rated point for several hours in typical conditions to prove out the machine. Then, from there, overloading is at ones own risk. The driver will not be damaged as long as...

One of the experts needs to clarify this but I'll try hoping I don't mis speak. My 3kw 016B has the similar specs. I think what they are saying is that if you have an inductive load, such as a motor, and if that motor has a power factor of .8 then you will be at full load on the generator...

I'll take you up on the diagram. The box wiring is currently 10Ga all the way in the photos. I'm going to split out the 120 and 240 into two boxes. I will likely keep the existing box for one or the other and buy or make a second box. The gen rating is 30 amps in 120vac single phase and 15...

Even the wheels are home made

I have seen this discussion before and acknowledge that oru MEP are very conservativly rated. But does the military actually rate them more for lower elevation and temp? The engine will produce more at lower elevation due to air density if the fuel is adjusted up. However, the generator...

I looked at your photos. That appears to be a very nice unit. It is a 701A as discussed above. Your 701A was made from the 016B that is shown on the 016B name plate. I believe all 701As were made from finished and running 016Bs. Not all 701As have the original 016B name plate saved. That is a...