Rodburner
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I’ve been reading posts and getting familiar with the mep 003a. Purchased 2 about a year ago. One would run for about a minute before black smoke started rolling out of the 1 and 2 cylinder exhaust. Seller thought it could be repaired and the second one sold or ke for parts. Tore down running generator and found a burnt piston in #2 cylinder. Bought a new piston and rings along with a head gasket kit. Also had injectors tested, found the one in that cylinder was bad but out of the 8 injectors I have, there were 4 good ones. Just got the generator together last week with fresh oil and filters, cleaned out the fuel tank and it fired and ran. That’s the short story lol. Took several attempts. Anyhow generator is running but frequency meter shows 0 and won’t shut down when switching to off position. Remembered previous owner said kill solenoid was missing from the running generator but there was one on the parts machine. This is as far as I’ve gotten. Do I need to get an original frequency meter or can I use a replacement one? Reading in another thread, someone was having trouble with a run away engine. Is this common?
Thanks in advance, I feel like I should only be a junior member for only having a couple of generators but I really enjoy and appreciate reading the threads. There will be more questions to come I’m sure. Thanks again!,
Thanks in advance, I feel like I should only be a junior member for only having a couple of generators but I really enjoy and appreciate reading the threads. There will be more questions to come I’m sure. Thanks again!,