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In addition to temporarily wiring up the primary fuel pump and engine stop solenoid I will also have to hot-wire the starter & solenoid somehow... the copper thief cut & removed ALL the wires going to it including battery cables.
Once I get ready to attempt an engine start I hope I have a warm...
No, its 100% intact and pristine inside!
Hadn't considered just hooking up the bare minimum engine start voltages to see if it starts & stays running. Hmmm, will have to consider that...could save me from having to disconnect/connect then disconnecting & return the wiring harness out of my #3...
For whatever reason, the large leads coming from the generator stator were severed but not harvested for the wire it contained. Due to the nature of those finely stranded wires I would not trust them to be spliced back together. Therefore, I'm looking at replacing the generator stator with its...
Well the SS classifieds ad I placed for a MEP-002a/003a wiring harness, MEP-002a generator stator or complete gen head has not produced any results so far.
In the meantime, I am thinking of temporarily robbing a known good wiring harness off one of my other -002a generators in order to verify...
Yep, probably some meth-head looking for money for their next fix I guess. The guy I purchased it from said it was always kept indoors until he moved to another location where he had it stored outside temporarily when it was vandalized.
Anyway, I do hope I can find a wiring harness and...
I was recently cruising around eBay and Craigslist on a lark searching for any "spare parts" that I might need in the future. Instead, I ended up buying a complete MEP-002a generator mounted on a M116a2 trailer off Craigslist. Its a late model 1991 (last yr they were made) with 3,000 original...