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Bob welcome aboard. I am glad you have joined this forum. I chose the path of buying a genset at auction. I took my chances. I never do understand when people compare a business to what they can do as a DIY. I used to own my own auto repair shop. I would get people say to me "wow I can do it...

Absolutely correct. If you get the diesel into your blood stream you can die in minutes. Diesel shops have apparatus for doing the spray pattern check. Take a good size glass jar , empty of course, put the injector through the lid. The lid is metal so you can poke a hole in it and stick the...

Hand over the exhaust is not a compression test. If everything is correct then you need to check compression. Low compression on a diesel makes them hard to start and near impossible in the winter, glow plugs or not. Items to check: Fuel Spray pattern of injectors compression timing no air in...

At the moment I do not have a truck so I am not sure I can get an air handler in my Touareg. May I ask what distributer you work for? I used to work for a supply house back in the day.

Good news Jim. Although I was looking forward to picking up some parts from you. :-P

I amin CT too. Do you have any of the electric furnaces or air handlers that are being scrapped?

Larry, You should start your own thread. Also your post is unclear. Try to repost using full sentences instead.

The strainer does come out. I took mine out of both units and cleaned them. My buddy actually did that part. If I remember you have to twist and line up tabs with slots in the tank to remove. Maybe someone else can chime in with better info.

I would just have the radiator repaired at a shop. This way they can boil it and clean it while it is out.

Instead of making a tank, why not clean your tank and use a tank sealer inside. Less work and less cost. The fuel gauge is mechanical so you can probably fix it.

Sounds good. Did you clean the fuel system good before firing up? Or did you just fill it and hope for the best? My two units came with a little fuel in the tank and filters that smelled real bad. You can add some marvel mystery oil to the fuel and that can help clean things. The frequency...

Acetone is what one of the fuel tank coating kits uses to clean tanks before coating.

Not everyone has a pickup. I have 2 company cars. If I had a pickup truck I would have to pay for car insurance, taxes and the truck. So for me hauling a drum of fuel is not possible. I will use Jerry cans and my home heating oil tank to fill my diesel storage drum. I have considered another...

My oil tank is about 125 feet from where the generator will live. So for my purposes I will probably haul the fuel manually. That is why I have thought about either a 15 or 30 gallon drum. I could move that on a hand truck, refill it and wheel it back. Just make a hose that will reach outside so...

Propane is a good choice. The negatives are you need a tank to store it and you can't refill it yourself. Propane has roughly 10% less power per gallon than gasoline. If you already have a propane tank then I would go with propane to power a generator. I would just go with a larger tank. In my...

You do not want water in your diesel. The algae makes a mess of fuel systems. if I didn't have a heating oil tank I would fill a 55 gallon drum and seal it. I will either get a 15 or 30 gallon drum and seal it for emergency use. Then beyond that I would tap my heating oil tank. The lowest I run...

This is one reason to periodically run your equipment, no matter what it is. Most residential backup generators are propane or natural gas powered. The fuel does not go bad in storage and does not gum up injectors, carburetors, etc. You can store diesel long term but you have to watch for algae...

If you want to run all that at once you will need a monster. If you are planning to be prepared for an extended outage. Hurricane Sandy here on the east coast left people without power for 2 weeks. Fuel was very hard to come by. Even when stations had gasoline most did not have diesel. You do...

According to the TM is is an ammeter. The selector switch on the control panel controls what it is reading. You need to set the switch on the control panel to match the configuration you have chosen with the selector switch on the connection box. Make sure you have that switch set correctly. It...

Wet stacking I am sure is more of an issue with the water cooled models but you want to occasionally load up near 100% to really burn the fuel hot and clean. Storeman is right. You need to decide on what your needs are. I have a 7500W petrol generator. it served me well last October with a 7...