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Was dinking around in the garage today and needed to move the one MEP-802a unit that I still have left. After digging up some parts, this is the best solution I could come up with for now. Scrap pieces of 2x8 cut to 11" and beveled on the top ends to fit the curve of the C-channels in the...

The local Big-R store here has them for $59.99 with core. I believe Durastart is the brand name. I bought a set of them for one of the 802a sets I sold earlier this year, and as far as I know the new owner hasn't had any issues with them yet.

I plan on using a couple 55 gallon oil drums with a drum pump that I can fill the tank of my diesel Jetta with. The car is my commuter vehicle and I use 13-14 gallons of diesel a week so that's plenty to keep fuel rotated without letting it sit for very long. When one barrel goes dry after 4-5...

Looks like I have a dead current meter. This one was in a unit that was reset in 2010 and all the gauges were replaced but it's not working at all, other than the needle bounces around from time to time but nothing else. I temporarily robbed a known-good one out of one of my other 802's and it...

Update: looks like I got extremely lucky with this batch of generators. Just fired up and load tested the last one yesterday and not a single engine or gen head problem with any of them. Three of them came with Optima yellow-top batteries that were in great shape, The other two had the 2HN...

Try Gov Planet or Iron Planet. -Tony

I took the bottom float off and the circuit opened, so got to looking at the float compared to others and the top snap ring on that bottom float looked like it was a lot lower down than in the pictures of others I've seen. Moving it up seems to have fixed it. I put a gallon of fuel in it and...

Well, the second unit apparently has a leaky well-nut, as I came out to the garage yesterday morning to see that it took a whiz all over the floor. Guess that will go in the list of things to do. Got a third one up and going yesterday and and let her run for a couple hours with a 6500 watt...

Well, another one of them lives. New oil, filter, coolant, a couple gallons of diesel, charged the Optimas for about an hour and it fired right up. This one only has 126 hours on the meter and as far as I can tell, hasn't been reset. Load tested it at 6500w for a couple hours and all seems...

I just use two old 12v chargers for mine, one on each battery. If you have a 24v charger then you would hook the positive to the positive terminal on the starter side battery, and the negative to the negative terminal on the oil filter side battery. That way you're charging them in series. Or...

I experienced this exact same problem yesterday with one of the 802's I'm working on. I accidentally left the control panel lights on overnight and it did the same banging of the fuel solenoid when I tried to crank it with the S1. Cranked over just fine with the dead crank switch though...

Well I changed out the fuel filters today, and GOOD LORD whoever installed that spin-on filter needs to have their teeth knocked out! I had to take the top and side panel off to be able to get a grip on it with my filter pliers. I also found the inlet fitting on the fuel pump wasn't all the...

I don't have any experience with MEP's specifically, but am very familiar with diesels and have worked on a couple similar Lister engines in the past. I have read through a lot of the tech manuals for the 802's to get an idea of what I'm dealing with, and this forum has also been a big help...

I was comparison shopping all the brands locally and online today, which was the only reason I found that typo. For oil, air and both fuel filters, the cheapest option ended up being Baldwin filters from Grainger. Even with tax and shipping it was still a few dollars less than Amazon, and...

The first one I tore into today has Optimas and amazingly they were still almost fully charged. Filled it with coolant, oil and a couple gallons of diesel and let the fuel pump run for a while and it cranked right up without any issues. I let it run for a couple minutes before I put a load on...

I won five MEP-802a's from Fort Campbell on GL a couple weeks ago, and just finally got them hauled home Monday afternoon. Two 1994 Libby's, two 1995 Libby's and a 2000 Fermont. All flappers intact and no water in any of them from what I can see. All look pretty clean and are complete. 3...

Awesome reference guide for these filters! I noticed a typo in the original post while pricing things out. The correct Baldwin air filter number is PA1690FN, not PA1960FN.