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The 802 two cylinder diesel is well known for vibration. With respect to your video, I would point out that having the engine loose on the floor with some of the weight on a lift chain isn't going to help, but is never going to be a smooth as an inline 4, V-8, or an engine with a...

I don't know if this helps, but if you think about how a 4-cycle engine works, every piston is at its own TDC twice. Once at the peak of compression, and the second at the end of the exhaust stroke. If you bring the #1 piston up to the top of head, and both the intake and the exhaust valves are...

Used stoves are cheap to free; but they do require babysitting for safety reasons. Tradeoffs...

Yes, and no in my opinion. They work, but are a pain to work around. If you don't use them, I would suggest some other form of terminal insulation. In my opinion, there are a fair number of conductive items close to the battery terminals that I think are a short risk. I used some oversize...

Surplus load banks around here are never inexpensive. You might have a look for scratch and dent. My 10kW heater was $60 (Amazon scratch and dent, and the dents took all of ten minutes to straighten/flatten), the used IEC 60309 plug was $70, the 6ga type W cord was $25, the strain relief...

Great point. I think that the 1-cylinder vibration on these is something to behold. All the best, 2Pbfeet

@Tinstar congratulations on getting it running. FWIW: I've switched to using plastic squeeze bottles (ketchup style) to put oil in my Yanmar and Honda engines. I find it easy to measure the oil into the squeeze bottles, easy to get the oil in the dipstick hole, and easy to top off with. I find...

If it were me, I would nudge your starter wires just a bit to free up the cooling slots on the generator head, as the other side on this model tends to be fairly occluded. All the best, 2Pbfeet

Congratulations on the buy. It looks to be in nice shape. Judging by the residue in the fuel filter, you might want to clean the fuel tank, and then fill the new filter with a dose of SeaFoam. Yes, priming is key with this engine, the high pressure side especially. In general though, I think...

The 0-100V spec makes sense now. Thanks! All the best, 2Pbfeet

@peapvp That seems like a nice find! Congratulations. 0-100V seems like quite the range though, but it does take so little to keep an RTC going. All the best, 2Pbfeet

That does look convincing similar for negative input/positive ground, though I wonder a bit at the diagram in both places of a multi-cell battery for a 1.5V input. Learn something new every day! Thanks. All the best, 2Pbfeet

You are welcome. The learning curve at the beginning is often steep. No, I did not find it in the manual, for as @Guyfang pointed out above, the part called out there is for the entire assembly, but in general that part number and description would give you a starting point for a search, if you...

Part number 11675004 NSN 5340-01-059-0114 aka "Slave Cap Assembly" I believe. Available from many sources, you can try searching for "nato 1 pin slave receptacle cap" e.g. https://www.eriksmilitarysurplus.com/naslrecowrec.html All the best, 2Pbfeet

😯 Wow. A positively grounded battery on a modern piece of electronics seems unusual to the point where I would be wondering about a documentation error. It would certainly have me being extremely careful. If you probe the (-) point when the controller is powered up is there a voltage? I...

That is the data plate for the engine. How useful it is might be a different item. What parts are you ordering? There's ordering MEP-803A parts, there are Onan specific parts, there are Lister Petter (LPW4) model parts, and of course generic parts. The most specific is always going to be...

As @Ray70 points out I would suspect that there is something amiss with the camshaft, probably its gear. To me, the "rocker arms they seemed to be 90 degrees off" and "...there are spots when rotating the engine where it gets tight like we have interference..." are consistent, and both point to...

Nice job! Way nicer than my version. We live with fire risk most of the year, and I realize that the Jersey shore is usually wetter, but, that lower heater runs a risk of baking the ground in front of it. If it were me, I'd make sure to have it on concrete, or with the louvers pointing up. I...

@peapvp great eyes on the wire. To me, that frayed wire looks as if it is almost burned in the photo.

I understand the challenges of not having enough time, and at some point the whole "time is money" devil raises its head. Only you know what you are up for. Running the machine at slightly reduced output power may fix the compression/carbon issues, but I don't see how it would help low oil...