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At some point you should check the battery charging alternator.
In one of the pictures the ammeter seems to be sitting in the negative.
That is fairly odd, typically it will be up in the positive range immediately after starting and slowly settle back to zero to ~+2 while running.
It's also...
How are you measuring the backpressure? Are you using a manometer, of judging it simply by feel?
The 803 and by far worse, the 802 can be deceiving if you just go by feel with the oil fill cap off because of the crank and pistons pulsing up and down.
To test compression I made a steel tube the...
Anything is possible. I believe the LPW4 gear is held to the gear with a slot in the cam and tang on the gear. Perhaps the ears of the slot in the cam have broken off. Only way to know if to pull it off.
You could try pulling the #1 injector and valve cover and stick a screwdriver of rod down...
When you tightened the rocker arms did you follow the instructions and allow the lifters to sit and bleed down for 1/2 hour , then rotate the motor by hand and let it sit again before cranking the engine?
If you don't the lifters will be pumped up, causing the valves to hit the pistons and bend...
The linkage is spring loaded internally to allow it to expand lengthwise when the fuel solenoid pushes it down while the governor linkage is trying to pull up on it.
It does not go up under fuel pressure. Even with the engine off, the governor is trying to pull the throttle wide open. Despite...
I typically just make a little daisy chain with 1/4" Faston connectors for the gage lights and a snap spade connector on the end, jump from each gage bulb with the Faston's and connect the spade to one of the panel light sockets.
Make sure to secure the wires to the wire harness, otherwise they...
At 5000W your load meter should be reading about where the green line is at 80% output.
On the Temp gage, the 240 degree gages usually read right around 200 when the motor is operating correctly with a 180 degree thermostat installed.
Even if whacking the pump gets it going again, do yourself a favor and get rid of that Facet Cube pump.... it's guaranteed to let you down at the least opportune moment!
I'm actually a bit surprised it quit on you during a periodic test..... usually they wait for the start of an extended power...