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If this is just a straight mag pickup then I have a few suggestions. Make sure the end of the pickup is clean and not attracting any stray metal chips or filings. Make sure it is 90 degrees square to the teeth, especially side to side. Obviously if it is in a drilled and tapped flywheel...

Help me more here. Years ago it was common to buy a capacitor battery eliminator for motorcycles. I had an old Triumph that used a permanant magnet alternator, plate rectifier, and zener diode as the regulator. Very crude. The capacitor replaced the battery no issues. I thought the system on...

Most likely a bad connection. Or you need more fuel. You have no voltage on the connector to the solenoid. Open the tank and use a long stick or coat hanger or threaded rod or what have you and lift the bottom float up and down. That is the float that provides the shutdown for low fuel...

Yep, storage paint. "Shine" it up and go.

Hi Everyone, Does anyone have a 016D where the fuel pump actually works off of the engine flywheel charger and pumps fuel from the belly tank to the Yanmar tank? I'm 0 for 3 with these. Add the fact that I'm 1 for 4 with operational flywheel chargers on the Pow'r gards makes me 1 in 7. I...

The MEPs have none of their output leads grounded to the frame by design. Depending on the output configuration the earth ground and frame ground are attached to the specified output. However, there is another scenario people should be aware of. The ground on the frame protects the user from...

I did not write the numbers down but If recall the Ft. Dix units were well over 2K. I did review all prices at the close of the last sale. I thought the prices were pretty consistent accross the country for the most part. The Eastern seaboard does seem to run higher, probably due to more...

Anyone have the wiring diagram for the resulting conversion? (Not the engine diagram and not the TM for the gen side) My electric transfer pump that pumps from the belly tank to the engine tank is not working and it is not stuck. What's the little device mounted by the start switch in line...

The engine will probably tolerate it but I don't think it is the best idea. If you are running straight pump diesel then it is already pretty clean. If you run heating oil it can be much more dirty. A truck store or NAPA has the real deal like a RACOR filter / separator. Then you have peace...

Your very welcome. The folks on this board have been very helpful to me too. This is proving to be a very fun hobby for me. I enjoy working on such high quality equipment. It looks like I'm getting a couple more 016B's one with the Onan that I am familiar with and one with the Yanmar...

3 Hz is not bad droop at all. I wish they could all be that good. However, it can always be experimented with. As the droop is tightened eventually instability will settle in, especially at the lighter loads. The machine will begin hunting going up and down up and down, maybe slowly or...

They would have to use an inverter system to get that big of a frequency spread or a stacked stator and rotor arrangement in the generator end. BTW is the 002 / 003 series a prechambered or direct injected diesel? A prechambered diesel would be far better for alternate fuel experiments...

All looks good!

The most common vibration problems with skidded equipment that has no apparent balance issues are: 1) Not having a uniform load distribution on too hard a surface. If must be on a hard surface find the light corner and shim it up. 2) Rubber mounts hard from age, torn, or loose / soft from...

Correct, the manual has problems with the grounding instructions and the labeling on the winding diagrams. There are some other posts on this site addressing that issue. My guess is that there were modifications made along the way to allow the L0 to be grounded and let the machine make 120 /...

Hi I've had as few of the 016B's and hope to have a few more in the future. They are very nice units. The voltage selector switch chooses which two leads are sent to the panel voltage gage for a reading. The position of the voltage selector switch tells the voltage gage what to read. It is...

It is starting to sound a little better and the smoke is pretty much gone. Put rated load on it for an hour or so. Get it hot and get some fuel moving through it. Then see if it quiets down and gets a little smoother. Sometimes a bad injector is only a problem at the lighter loads where it must...

Here is a great link I found to the manual for our engine. Granted it is for the domestic version, but never the less very informative. There is also a parts manual in the same website. Regarding the leak at the pump. From reading the manual the "gasket" is actually a shim. There are 3...

Yes, I believe it is the same. It is the Baldor but with the Robin engine before Baldor went to the Hatz, Thanks for info. I will not start it without the battery.

Hi everyone, I just picked up 4 of these little Pow'r Gard Wisconsin / Robin powered 3kw sets in a G/L auction. They are a little rough so I have been working on getting them fixed up. So far I have one running. Two of them have gasoline in their tanks! Question: Can they be run and make...