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Most people will tell you not to buy unless you can do an onsite inspection. Reliability wise these things are designed to run 24/7 for several thousand hours before needing major maintenance. Engine parts are available for the Lister-Petter LPW4 engine pretty readily, and you can get equivalent...

The stupid shall be punished.

I cant answer your question, but I will buy that aux fuel hose if you're selling.

What do you power with a generator that large?

I have seen someone on here selling digital replacement gauges. You may have to scroll back a bit to find the thread.

Best to start your own thread, but I paid $3,800 after all fees and taxes for mine with 16 hours after Letterkenny total rebuild.

Green Mountain Generators buys and refurbs MEP's, load tests them, etc. Be warned though, they do sell them at a pret hefty pric.

There's also Iron Planet (pretty sure it's part of GP), and there is also GSA auctions.

I dumped 10KW worth of water heater elements on mine all at once and it barely even shrugged. Little puff of smoke and a slight slow down until the governor caught up. I was amazed, these things are beasts.

On the quad circuit mod or the lighting? I read your thread on the circuit mod and that is what I used as a basis to ensure mine had the mod. I also read the thread on the lighting and will be using it as a guideline for wiring mine up. Thas for all the tips you provide Guy, I really...

Went out and started my -803 for a monthly run to top up the batteries, heat the windings to remove condensation, etc. Figured I might as well check for the quad circuit mod and lighting on the gauges. The unit had 16 hours on it when I bought it, and had a Tier 2 reset at Letterkenny in 2012...

I second the NOCO G7200, great multipurpose charger.

Have you downloaded the service manual and confirmed your winding is shorted out? Did you disconnect the leads to the winding to ensure you aren't reading across some parallel path? I would run through the tests called out in the manual before I started spending money. YMMV. Mike

Reading through this thread will probably help you: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?150954-MEP-8xx-series-Replacement-parts Good luck, Mike

Kurt, Awesome work. I have started on something similar using the 2560, but I haven't gotten very far due to work and other commitments. If you don't mind I will PM you my email address. Please send any photos, schematics, wiring diagrams, instructions, etc that you may have. This will save me...

Water heater is an indirect off of a propane boiler that only uses a 15 amp breaker for control circuit power so there's no load there at all to speak of. I built a red neck load bank out of a plastic 55g barrel and 10 KW worth of water heater elements so I can just throw that on it every...

I have a clamp on ammeter and will check it the next time I run it. Prior to wiring to the house I had 10 KW worth of water heater elements powered from the machine, and the load meter read about 78%, which I felt was pretty close considering a pf of 0.8.

So we are getting another snow storm today so I figured it was a good time to exercise the set. I permanently connected up the NOCO-7200 to keep the batteries topped up. I then started up the Arctic block heater. 10 minutes later the coolant is at 180 F and the machine fires right up. I...

I don't like the idea of the air intake for the radiator filling up with rain and snow. That water would have to go somewhere, and eventually it seems to me that it would cause issues. I suppose I could just snap a cover on the top to cover the air inlet and the exhaust flapper.

A plywood box large enough to cover the 803 would be too heavy for the wife to remove if she needed to start it while I am at work. I was thinking about buying some Sunbrella fabric and sewing up a cover with some snaps to attach it. I understand mice could chew through the fabric but it would...