Picking up my new to me 003

[Jimc]

So I had a spare hour today to start messing with gen. First place to start was the fuel tank. Removed that and as suspected there was a 1/2" of mud and water at the bottom of it. I guess the owner before me tried to get it running and just added fuel to the old nasty stuff that was in there. It even smelled bad. I cant imagine what these strainers in the facet pumps look like. Doesn't appear that they have ever been removed. And the prior owner wondered why it wouldn't run right. He had the injectors rebuilt too. I hope that nothing made it downstream past the final filter. At least he changed those.

 

[storeman]

Jimc,
I wouldn't trust any aspect of the fuel supply. You may be able to reuse his fuel filters but all canisters need to come off and be inspected/cleaned and all lines cleared. Fuel filters are 500 hour items so long as they haven't been crapped. I've salvaged a lot of them from units but have not tried to run the units before dealing with the fuel supply system.
Jerry

 

[Jimc]

thanks jerry, i dont plan to. i already have spin ons ordered. i also washed out the fuel tank today and acid washed it. looks brand new now. i opened up the facet pumps and to my surprise the strainers in them looked brand new. i was kinda hoping to find something there. in any case i am going to start another thread on the teardown process.

 

[TPK]

yeah edge i just figured it out. the onan # is listed right in the manual. what screwed me up is the number in the manual is actually wrong for the valve cover gasket. typo i guess. manual says 115-0139 when its actually 115-0130.

I just found the valve cover gaskets here for 7.99: http://www.partsfortechs.com/asapca...tion=1&keyword=1150130&submit.x=13&submit.y=8

 

[Jimc]

thats a good find. we do have a member here wciguy i think that has them i think for about $4. they are not factory onan parts but i have gotten them a couple times and they are the same material as the onan ones i bought and they are spot on every time. i actually have the gaskets all in a cad file and i can cnc cut them with my vinyl cutter but at his price its not even worth it for me to mess with it.

 

[TPK]

Well $4 would have been better, but at least I'll have enough for now to get things up and running. Now to find a few other elusive parts...

 

[3rdaavbn]

I thought white smoke is oil. rings etc.

 

[Jimc]

the white smoke is unburnt fuel. usually a non firing cylinder from low compression, etc