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There used to be an ex-USAF Tucker 743 at Madawaska lake in Aroostook county, Maine. A guy who ran a restaurant/lodge used it to groom snowmobile trails in the 1980s after the job outgrew the Ski-Doo Alpine he had been using for the job. My understanding is that a (comparative) lot of Tuckers...

Be careful - the manual is a little squirrely on this. Have a look at ETN-550's posts about this.

So much good stuff there - the hard part is deciding what to do with what. I'd probably pick the best body and then shop for a frame to match it. Titles are a solved problem - there are several good options and all work for something this old and in pieces.

What I would do: swap out any 3 prong 220 plugs on appliances/devices with 4-prong 220 non-twist-lock plugs. Why? Because lots of these things have metal cabinets (dryers, welders) which can (and should) be connected to the green (fourth) wire for a true ground bond- it's just safer that way...

I Put the Manassas dates in my calendar.

I've always gone by what has been said around here about the badness of 'idling' a generator with respect to regulator lifespan. That said, if you've got the output breaker turned off, so you know positively that the set isn't trying to put power into a load, and you have been running at normal...

Sounds like you're pretty close to perfect if the exhaust cleaned up after a couple hours of running. Like all engines everywhere, and particularly like all diesels, they like to be worked.

That was what my parents did with their vintage RV when they decided they wanted air conditioning and deep cycle charging on the road. Dad put a standard small utility generator on a swivel trailer behind the RV and it runs the big rooftop AC unit when they want AC underway (seldom - the RV has...

Jimc's note about power factor is worth noting, but if you have two MEP-002As that are behaving differently with the same load, then it's logical to assume that undesirable differences are the fault of the generator, not the load. Yes, running it hard might fix the problem. Or it could be a...

Small engines have small carbs and small carb jets. Tiny carburetor jets clog easier. If you don't have a good fine gauge fuel filter in line to the carburetor, now is the time. Air cleaners also need to do their job - I have seen a number of carbs with plugged jets caused by debris going in...

The question can't be answered as it was asked - you left out the most important variable: time. Most batteries are happiest being charged at a c/10 rate (check the manual - your battery may vary). So if you have, say, 40 amp-hours of batteries and they're 50% discharged, the optimum charge...

If your load is all resistive (PF=1) and you're below about 2000 ft elevation, you should see just a tiny wisp of white in the exhaust at 120% indicated load, presuming that the machine has been run hard long enough to get good and warm and burn all the deposits off. Mine basically doesn't...

Several things I have learned from heavy duty vehicle electrical equipment (on first responder hardware in this case, but physics doesn't change just because it's painted green). 1. If there's a one-way drive pulley on it, it's because the rotor of the alternator is so massive that full...

There were a lot of different flavors of ROKON built - early ones had a fairly finicky West-Bend two-stroke, but were very light weight. My understanding is that various US special ops units did operate them back in the 1970s and that they were eventually replaced with the KLRs because the...

One nice thing about the 002 is that it's small enough that you can fake a load bank with space heaters, coffee pots, hot plates, etc. Just plug resistance loads into your garage until you've got the generator working well. Make note of the load in some way (ideally with a clamp-on ammeter on...

We have a thread on here (still in progress) involving output testing with different buttons - basically quantifying the effect of to-spec versus different degrees of off-spec timing on the MEP-002A/003A gensets. Since you know what you've got now, please see if you can do a measured load test...

I was just thinking that my old fond daydream to find the apocryphal "jeep in a crate" has now been upgraded to "jug in two crates." It's interesting that they have the field un-crate instructions for the jug, which was arguably the highest-tech recip fighter of WWII with its dual-stage turbos...

Don't be knocking the oil filter. They come in two kinds: full-flow (what you're used to) and bypass (probably what the DUKW has). Full-flow oil filters had a lot of advertising hype behind them when they became common on engines in the 1950s. The oil path in a full-flow system is pump ->...

This sounds like a suicide plug setup unless I'm missing something. No, I (and code) don't approve. There's nothing wrong with having a dryer socket and a four-lug twist-lock socket on an outlet box. Where you get in trouble is in connecting to the house wiring without some kind of interlock...

First, you have yet another guy jonesing for that DUKW. Beautiful. Second, yes. Oil and plain bearings have always gone together, but pressure lubrication is really a pretty recent addition to mechanism. Pretty much no steam engines used it (later ones used elaborate drip lubricator systems...