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Keith J, I had the engine running for at least 5mins before putting a load on it. once the load was applied it ran again for about 4 minutes. I would expect that the engine was fully warmed up by then. If the cylinder was flooded I would think there would be a lot of white smoke from the...

The injector looks fine. The sealing gasket is what let loose. This was the first attempt to put the genset under a load and it failed when the injector seal popped. I don't see any damage to the injector nor any threads where it meets the cylinder head. I am curious though if this is common on...

Yes I pulled the injector and you can see on the side of it the black soot from it leaking.

Don'y know why the gasket blew. unit was running fine for warm up and then after I put the load on it for about 4 mins she let loose. All the injector hold down bolts were tight and you can see the exhaust on the side of the injector.

I took off the covers and exposed the rotary switch. With an angled wrench I was able to loosen the studs that hold the wafers together and spray contact cleaner on the switch. It seemed to help and I got it to move again and lock in the proper detents. It still hangs up a little and if you...

Yes, it wasn't running when I went to change the switch. I was in the process of hooking up an electric heater that runs on 240 single ph. Hadn't even started the unit up when it locked up. I thought I read about a similiar condition on a thread here. The writer talked about loosening up the...

I was going to use my genset today and went from 3ph to 240 single with the selector switch. It didn't seem right so I thought I would turn it back and it was locked up solid. I thought I read about a similiar condition once but can't seem to locate the thread. Any Ideas? What to look for? Thanks