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Ive been working on 1 particular unit for a little bit now after taking care of the engine side of things on an 803a. I can hear everybody now, yes I am running through the -24 and related docs. I normally wouldnt post if it wasnt some weird compound issue, or maybe my brain lacking direction /...

So after getting a super clean 006a which almost looks brand new minus a dented door and a few missing screws, I need to find a shop to rebuild the injection pump. It was so varnished up the shutdown linkage took a good few minutes of rocking back and forth to get it to move freely, and as it...

I have a handful of 831s that everything rubber has been replaced, except for the rubber cushions / grommets / isolators that hold the front cover / airflow thing to the engine. All of these generators came with these grommets in great shape, however because I run all of my gens extensively as...

I just won a bunch from Las Vegas this weekend and am waiting on bids to come back for getting it all shipped to me down in Florida. We are looking at 14' on a flatbed (unless the loader cant follow direction or the driver doesnt want the stuff that close) and if anybody else would be hauling...

Its almost been 2 weeks and I am curious as to who is running MEPs up there in the Panhandle. I have family up there and after it hit and hearing from family I loaded up 3 gens (831, 802, 803 one of each) and made my way up there along with many other supplies. I have family in Chipley who got...

So I am working on an 803 that has me a little stumped. I dont mind being stumped for as this is good brain exercise but I am hoping to see if anybody has a solution before I open the engine up to investigate (I prefer to not use consumables if I dont have to.) Unit was a non-runner picked up...

Thanks to Guyfang for posting somewhere stating that it was possible to change the rotor bearing without pulling the engine I decided to tackle it and go farther because I had a 803A that had a rear main seal fail, and was successful. I was able to (mostly) solo replace the rear main and rotor...

Im going to be losing access to my metal shop in the near future so I am getting all of my fab and welding projects out of the way instead of working on generators. The project: After much research, measuring, talking with people to see if I am crazy, more measuring, more research, (both with...

I have a few M103/M105 trailers that I am modifying and am using these because I need the narrow frame. All of the M101 trailers and the aluminum ones I have area all too wide for a particular application. (I have 77 inches to jam an 84 inch trailer.) Application is 1 or 2 MEP-803a generators...

About 20 hrs this weekend working on the MEPs we have. Sat was 46 and for some reason for me its perfect ice cream weather so I enjoyed some ice cream with a MEP in the background. Some other highlights included unsticking 2 fuel racks in 2 different gens. Each gen had a seized pump so those...

Heres a laugh for you guys regarding generators for the stuff I see in the field. Purely entertainment purposes, 1 story from this weekend and 1 from a while ago. So my company recently took over an account a week before the holidays. A skilled nursing facility. Ive been onsite there averaging...

So ive been going through an 831 in the spare time while I wait for parts to come in for my 803s, and aside from the unit being close to mint with a 12 hour engine, This unit has an overvolt condition. L1 - L2 is over 400 volts, L1 - N is 200+ and L2 - N is the remainder. Alternator on all 4...

Didnt know where to put this, but hopefully some people learn from my experience and make sure they have their ducks in a row when self-transporting or traveling in general. And this isnt meant to be a negative post by any means, just wanted to share my experience this weekend. I didnt see any...

Had a friend purchase a gen up in PA and decided because a trip from FL for 1 gen would be pricey why not buy 2? Well I decided to pick up a cheap non-runner. Ended up getting a unit that came back from Kuwait (seems like a pattern, I got a MMG25 from Kuwait a few years back) with 6000 hours...

Talked the yardkeeper into letting me come up on a weekend to pick up the gen I bought, except he didnt tell me that he was away and his wife wouldnt be helping me disconnect the trailer from the hmmwv and onto my truck. Luckily this trailer was a whole lot more balanced than the one I picked up...