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There is 24' of soffit venting for the wood furnace which works fine. When I run the generator, all windows will be open to allow airflow. There is also a shutter exhaust fan on second floor. I'm hoping not to go through roof for a couple of reasons; 1. I'd hate to cut a hole in a perfectly...

Gentlemen: A little over a year ago my new to me MEP 803a suffered a significant failure during a power outage. https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/mep-803a-failure.197874/ I started taking it apart, but the repair was beyond my comfort level. I located a gentleman who was very...

Thank you very much Bluvic, that helps a lot. I'm hoping to avoid disconnecting all the wires, but it looks like I may have to. I am more concerned of miswiring than anything; hence my apprehension of removing he front cover, but I may have to. I started marking the wires with tape and a...

I've started to pull this thing apart. I have the housing pulld apart on the front of the machine. I do not want to take apart any more than necessary as there are a lot of wires and lines I don't want to screw up. Looking at the genhead, I would think the interior part would come out, making...

GuyFang: Thank you very much. I know very limited about generator heads (or their parts, etc.). Your comments are quite helpful. I just need time to pull it all apart and look. I have the TM's, but did not see (yet) to get the unit out of the case. It looks like a project. I'll look...

I got into the generator a little deeper today and I'm pretty sure I found the problem. The generator itself is fried. Question: would I be better off finding a new surplus or rebuilt gen head? Is that what the electrical generating part is properly called? Is it easier to remove from top...

I was at work when it failed. My wife was home alone. Generator power went out and she thought it may have run out of fuel. She saw it smoking badly and hit emergency shutoff. When I came home at 0200, I could still smell something had burnt. I can't see anything anywhere that had burned...

Thank you very much. I'll try to get to it at night this week

Both. When the battle short was open or closed, no electicity was produced, and meter stayed pegged to max. Meter worked fine before failure. In fact, whole house running, including electric stove and well was only 55%-one of the reasons why I bought this machine.

I think I have a mechanical issue, but with the generator, not the motor. I think the black smoke was the diesel laboring under a heavy load. I have started the engine twice since. The motor starts and runs fine, but the load rating shows 130%, whether the battle short is open or closed.

No. Factory as it came from the Pennsylvania depot

Greetings: I suffered a failure with my MEP 803a during storm Isiais. I bought the unit two years ago with 82 hrs. Changed all fluids when I bought it, replaced leaking fuel lines, and have been running generator under light loads every 3 months. I have the unit wired to the main panel via a...

2010 803a according to tag.

Gentlemen: Thanks for the help. Got it all together the other day. Pretty easy job. I bought the recommended Continental line online, and all told, about an hours worth of work. What I was most worried about was bolts on the back of the cover near the radiator; I did not know the nuts were...