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  1. 1800 Diesel

    MEP-004A Injection Pump Repair, Then Major Short Circuit

    Can you pm your email or is it in your profile somewhere?
  2. 1800 Diesel

    MEP-004A Injection Pump Repair, Then Major Short Circuit

    Guyfang, Been off the grid for several days but back to home base now. Will be doing an "autopsy" of the damage with a goal to identify the burned cables (or at least their pin connection points on the cannon plugs since all the insulation is burned off). Also will be taking a closer look...
  3. 1800 Diesel

    MEP-004A Injection Pump Repair, Then Major Short Circuit

    New photo to add---noticed today one of the current transformers is leaking a strange fluid. Didn't see this last night...
  4. 1800 Diesel

    MEP-004A Injection Pump Repair, Then Major Short Circuit

    Bad, bad news....aua After swapping out the K1 relay and restarting the unit I immediately got a short circuit fault and instant shutdown. (At least the stop solenoid functioned properly but now I might have a parts unit.) This is painful after spending so much time in solving one problem...
  5. 1800 Diesel

    MEP-004A Injection Pump Repair, Then Major Short Circuit

    Zero volts at L1 with S2 switch off.
  6. 1800 Diesel

    MEP-004A Injection Pump Repair, Then Major Short Circuit

    Well, good to hear from you stranger! Happy to see you're still helping folks out. I will be very careful about re-installing to top cover having read about the possibility of an overspeed when the arm is placed on the wrong side of the linkage. What I've been doing is landing the cover a...
  7. 1800 Diesel

    MEP-004A Injection Pump Repair, Then Major Short Circuit

    Thanks--I remember seeing a fuel squirt coming out the small relief hole but it wasn't much. I'll do some more cleaning in that area. I haven't gotten to the solenoid swap out, but will do that tonight. Unit still does not want to shut down with the solenoid, but only manually.
  8. 1800 Diesel

    MEP-004A Injection Pump Repair, Then Major Short Circuit

    Greetings to everyone. Been away for a few years, mostly working away from home, but now back for awhile and trying to give some attention to a few languishing MEPs. For this one, it's 1977 vintage unit showing signs of neglect based on the mixture of sludge/water in the fuel tank. Day tank...
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