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You're welcome! What was going on in AL is they had passed legislation requiring all street driven, tagged motor vehicles to conform to applicable safety and emission standards for their year of manufacture. This was to keep golf carts, atvs and jap minitrucks from getting tags and being...

I've run Nuto H32 hydraulic oil and WMO strained to 5 microns but it's been suggested that these and others may have additives or contaminants (anti-foaming, detergents, anti-corrosion, suspended metals, acids, etc) that could cause long-term issues, not that I've seen any yet. Funny but the...

I had the same problem in Alabama, they'd written a law designed to keep jap minitrucks and golfcarts from being tagged and it required any vehicle to be tagged meet the safety and emission standards required of it as of the date of manufacture. I quoted U.S. Code stating that MV are exempt from...

Avoid all Interstate batteries as their passenger-car/light-truck batteries have a total rip off warranty in my opinion. Most batteries are warrantied using what you pay for them, when you buy a $90 battery at Autozone that's the number they use, a bad 50% battery is $45 to exchange... Not...

Another lesson in using the pulley-block when winching, I fragged my winch using a bolt for a shear pin and no block! :drool: Duh... I'd get two big bottle jacks and a bunch of lumber, limbs, firewood, rocks, whatever comes to hand. Block, jack and fill under tires until you can make progress...

It took me a bit to realize my MEP701a was 24v (duh) but it would start and run by 'jumping' the starter, just turning the master switch wouldn't do it. But neither did the DC breaker trip w/ 12v battery in it... I now temporarily have two 12v bats in series and it all works as it should. I'll...

I'm a newb to these mil gensets but if it were a simple DC short it seems like it would trip the breaker when you turned on the master switch. But if it starts and then throws the breaker it might be the AC field causing problems. Looks like that's run off of terminal 27 on the master switch...

EUREKA! As mentioned above I've been trying to lower rpm to lower frequency and was at the end of the speed adjustment. The engine had never sounded as frantic as other small gensets so, for lack of other ideas, I tried increasing RPM. Suddenly the frequency meter needle flopped back to the...

The TM I found at http://igor.chudov.com/manuals/OtherGenerators/MEP-016B/062759.pdf doesn't seem to go into detail about testing the frequency gauge or frequency converter so I'm out of luck there... I hate to just throw money at the problem replacing things. I suppose I could try the...

I found TM 5-6115-615-12 at http://igor.chudov.com/manuals/OtherGenerators/MEP-016B/062759.pdf They are also located in the power generation TM forum.

Started the latest acquisition, an MEP 701A from the Alabama Guard. Fired right up after realizing it's 24v :oops:, makes power at the convenience outlets to run a florescent shop light but the cycles are off the scale to the right, 65+, and kinda bouncing around which is odd compared to my 40kw...

This time of year dirt-daubers will stop up passages on a torn down carb, hydraulic valve body, transmission case or about anything else before you know it. I thought it was just a Deep South thing! I seal up engines, etc with aluminum tape before storing (on some old tires of course), it...

I seem to have a gift for knocking holes in sidewalls of NDC tires when offroad or even on dirt roads, usually on the front and most lately on Fri. aua Down here it's usually a chunk of 'lightered' that does the damage but I bet a rock would do the same elsewhere... Try changing a tire on...

Check the ATF fluid behind the little door in the passenger footwell. Some have engine oil, some ATF, I probably wouldn't mix them. Don't listen to the anti-A3 folk and their $10,000 trans rebuild stories, these are really common and simple transmissions, $2,000 rebuilt online and $500 used at...

GL says these are 'Perkins' diesels, anyone know which model engine these are? What kind of trans? Thanks...

I had this problem and used my standard approach: ignore it and maybe it'll go away. This actually worked or, more likely, some crud on the start button contacts cleared up... Glad to know there are more Deuce people in the area!

Alabama farm tag now attached to the A3 at last!

Wreckerman893: You and the clerk are right, there are no recent changes to the Code of Alabama, this whole things grew from an interpretation at the Dept. of Rev., Motor Vehicle Div., of Code of Al 32-8-42 and the State being unaware of the NHTSA exemption for military vehicles. My A3 had a 6...

Struggling with posting for some reason but CRISIS OVER! MANY THANKS DDOYLE, COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOUR INFO! Got the email this morning, my argument in the previous email: Mr. Hester: Based upon the response I received from NHTSA and the information you provided, we have...

The real problem is how the WMO is handled. I use clean buckets in my farm shop and then run it through a 5 micron sock filter. Most shops will dump anything in the WMO tank, anitfreeze contaminated oil, gear lube, cig butts and tobacco juice... That said, 50/50 'clean' WMO and diesel runs...