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Today, I went to exercise my MEP-003 genset, and it wouldn't start. Found that the plastic around the ball joint attached to the injector pump throttle arm snapped. My MEP-016B has also failed to the same failure. (among other failures I have yet to fix) Looking at the 24P, the part number is...

I have a MEP-016B that I had running around 2014. Unfortunately, it has nowhere to live except outside. I tried to periodically run it to keep it in good condition, but a few years ago, it wouldn't start anymore. Fast forward some additional time, and I realized the fuel filter cap had popped...

The last step on my generator trailer project is to hook up the 90 gallon external tank to the aux in fuel pump on my MEP-003 set. I've been having a heck of a time finding an adapter to get from the 5/16JIC fitting on the pump to any standard AN fitting size. I ultimately need to get to the...

For the past couple months, I haven't been able to get my MEP-016B started. Yesterday I tried again, and as I was operating the manual fuel pump lever, I heard a sucking sound coming from the fuel filter. Turns out, the bolt for the fuel filter housing that holds the lid on has stripped. Looking...

I'm working on installing a set of JimC's volt/amp gauges and I'm looking for a good place to pick up the voltages for the gauges. I'm hoping to pick up L1 and L3 separately so I can see the 120v on each leg to look for imbalance. I know I could pick them up out of the output box, but I imagine...

It's common knowledge the the capacitors on the fuel pumps for the MEP 002/003 gensets fail causing control circuitry issues. It's also common knowledge that the capacitors are there to suppress noise to RF communications. How bad is the noise with and without the capacitors and on what bands...

I have a family member who needs to move an old mobile home on his property from one side to the other. It's moving across 200-300 feet of straight, flat ground that doesn't involve going on any public roads. A quick search of the site gives me a thread from 2007 which a couple people have...

Ever since I bought my MEP-003, I've had an oil seepage from the area of the oil filter. The seepage is not bad and doesn't occur when the set is off. It will leak just enough oil while running over a 1 hour period to cover the tray below the filter and the frame below the oil filter in oil...

I'm ready to start building a small-scale WMO Filtering setup out of a beer keg. Metal 55 gallon barrels shouldn't be hard to find, but so far they are. Since the keg is aluminum and I only have a 120-volt flux core welder, I can't weld in bungs to hold the water heater elements. But, I've read...

I'm not 100% sure if this is the right forum for this, but I recently obtained a 500 gallon metal fuel tank to hold off-road diesel to feed my generators and tractor. However, in its previous life it held less than 200 gallons of gasoline for years. Presumably, the inside of the tank is pretty...

Would anyone be available to move an M105/103 genset trailer from Goldsboro, NC to the New Orleans, LA area? The nearest base would be Camp Shelby. As far as I know, the trailer is in good enough condition to be towed on the highway if necessary. Currently there is no time frame related to when...

As the title implies, are the governor linkage ball ends on the 002/003 and 016B generators the same? I looked at the 24P for both lines of generators and the part numbers are different. However, the last 7 digits of the NSN are the same, leading me to believe it's the same part. Does anyone...

Are the 2-pin slave ports rebuildable? I need to replace the cables coming out of the back of the slave port with longer cables to reach now that I'm running non-stock batteries on my MEP-016b genset. I haven't pulled it out of its bracket yet, but was hoping someone knew off-hand.

Does the fuel filter canister also do water separation? I know it has a draincock on the bottom, but I didn't know if that meant it did water too.

I'm about to start building a small distribution panel for my generator and picked up some 10/3 SJOOW for a good price. I'm going to run the cable into a couple of weatherproof outlet boxes. Trouble is, I have no idea what type of conduit fitting is the proper watertight fitting for SJOOW since...

I'm using the 6TLs that came from my deuce now on the MEP-003a. In a fit of forgetting to tighten the battery clamp on the battery before starting it, I've managed to partially melt the negative post on the battery.Here's what it looks like: It's at least half still there with just a hole in...

I have an old Chevy throttle-body fuel pump that was pulled from an 80s bodystyle Suburban that was still good when it was pulled. Would it be able to push WMO through a couple of spin-on filters, specifically a waterblock filter to be later filtered through filter bags? I'm looking to heat up...

A few days ago I took the deuce with hot water personnel heater out for a quick drive around town. It was night and I didn't notice a pool of coolant laying on the drivers fender until I shut the truck down. Once I saw the coolant on the fender, I tracked the coolant down to the filler neck...

The injector return line on my 016B is leaking like a sieve. I took a few minutes to try to figure out how to change it and it looks like it would be a simple job of using the remnants of the existing line as a pull-string if it weren't for a single tie-wrap buried below the sheet metal. It...

I know it's hard to quantify into words, but how hard should the brake pedal feel on a proper deuce brake system? Initially my brake pedal had quite a bit of free play and was moderately hard once the free play was taken up, and the truck stopped pretty well. Quite a while ago (year or 2 at this...