Recent content by Forester

Just wear rubber gloves!

Hmmm never herd of the peppermint oil before. Have to remember that one. Rustystud's Bobcat takes the cake though. I had a extremely lazy garage cat once. I would be working at the bench, cat in its "bed" at my feet, and we would both watch mice come to its food dish and steal a mouthful...

Update Was walking through the local big box store the other day and saw one of the plug in HZ/Volt meter others here have spoken of. $20 so I bought it. I tested it on the house power to make sure unit and user were on the same page. It read 60 so I started up the generator. Plugged it in...

If one were to ignore the HZ meter the unit did quite well. You could hear the engine labor/respond when the load was applied and/or removed. Before the meter went on the fritz there was very little drop in the meter, but that is all suspect now.... I hope that I wasn't running at to low of a...

Well I finally got a chance to give the MEP some exercise today, and like usual I think I did more harm than good. I started and warmed it up. The two baseboard heaters I wanted to use as my load bank didn't suck enough juice to get me past 70% (if there ever was a sticker indicating wattage...

I am somewhat anxious to try a load test, but it's been so stinking cold I am hesitant to do the test outside - long if not impossible warm up + operator fingers freezing. Garage came with an auto exhaust vent/blower, but i plugged it to keep from loosing heat. I might have to rework my...

Will do. Thanks much. :D

Well apparent we live in parallel worlds... I did end up finding them. By recalling that the wife wanted (around 2007) one of the heaters installed in her sewing room in the basement. I moved the whole bag of hardware created from the removal to the basement. Began the setup process mounted...

Moving the adjuster clockwise did indeed move the spring up. I didn't comprehend how the adjustment(er) worked until I got a better look at it and actually started to move it. So you were right jamawieb pushing on the left side and turning the adjuster clockwise moves the spring up. I had it...

Thanks for the help gents. I will start the generator and move the adjuster UP. Jamawieb/Jimmy I assume that you intended to tell me to move the adjuster counter clockwise? Righty tighty lefty loosie.. And there was a washer/spacer on #37 when it fell out. I didn't know if that was all...

As a side note when i checked the IP for free movement of the plunger I was told to make sure not to loose the spacer. It is number 38 in the pic below: Well...I don't recall ever seeing it. Number 37 came/fell out when i was disassembling and i just don't recall see a spacer when I looked...

I looked at the linkage that i put back together and did indeed see that there was some unpainted threads showing at the bottom. All things being equal those threads should be all the way in I suppose. So i, very painfully, screwed the bottom linkage in until there was no bare metal present...

Just the bottom of the linkage (lower ball connector) so I put it back together adjusted (guessing based on paint and wear) it as close to original as I could. Interesting enough when you have a freshly painted unit one can tell where others have been working. Scuffs and missing paint on the...

A length of new auxiliary fuel line - nice stuff New in box ground rod That's it There's enough new paint sprayed everywhere it very well could be interfering with a ground.

Well... I started her up again. Backed the trailer out into the -2 great outdoors for more tests. Right out of the gate there were some issues. After I started it it held on 60 hz, but soon become irregular with the motor momentarily cutting out/bogging down - like you were throwing a kill...