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Hey Guys, The 60s military generator is running fine thanks to all. Last night, my brother-in-law called me and ask if I wanted his Generac 5550 portable generator. He started it 15 years ago the day he bought it from Home Depot. It has less than 15 minutes run time. He paid a little over $800...

Thanks for all the post. Sorry for my extra post attempts. The site kept telling me, "There was a problem with my Upload, so I did it again, Sorry

I replaced the coil and it works fine again. It ran for 90 minutes until I shut it off and it restarted quickly. 2nd Pic I found under the coil, The 3rd pic is the badly kept main label. Thanks for your help.

I posted but it didn't hold, and lost it. Now I'm trying again. Yesterday I finally found a ignition coil locally at Tractor Supply. It was an hour away but they only had this one so I took off to get it. I installed this morning and the old military generator started up faster than it ever...

I found label under the coil.

Late last night I found what I thought would be a simple find, I was surprised that of the 6 places I called, most people had no idea what I was looking for. I called three Tractor Supply stores and the last one had 1 Ignition coil in stock. I drove an hour to pick it up and installed it this...

I'm having a problem with the photos I took with windows 10. I sent the picss to the PC but now the PC can't find them to upload. I miss XP

I pulled the coil, it's a Delco Remy 430. I'll upload pics tonight from iphone.

https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/474/474973-c3e446ffc4dd0d42e1eb5866fdcf35fb.jpg

It's still raining here is south Louisiana. When it stops I'll post some pics

https://www.steelsoldiers.com/attachments/001-jpg.777017/ I was looking to replace the breaker and took a few pics last year here.

No fuel shutoff that I know of. I put a fuel filter and new fuel line three years ago. I believe it's a gravity feed fuel and I have a five gallon fuel tank placed three feet away and i foot above the carb. Don't know the model due to wear and tear before I got it. Several scraps accross plate...

It dies like I shut it down.

I forgot to say, I have started the generator every few months to keep it in good shape. But each time I would let it run for about 20 minutes and shut it down. I never ran it more than 20 minutes, so this problem now was a cmplete surprise during hurricane Laura. I thought I had it all worked...

Like the top says the generator starts and runs great for 30 minutes, dies and will not start again for 30 minutes, but starts quickly again and again. The 1965 era military generator is a 3.5kw that was given to me buy a friend we helped move into a nursing home three years ago. It's electric...