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The manual makes everything sound benign. "Step Two: After kissing your elbow, insert the square peg in the round hole ... " Seems every starter is an exercise in awkwardness. On the plus side, this one won't drop grunge on your face.

I'll have a more readable copy of that tag in a few days.

That's a wise course. For sure I'll try to pick up a solenoid. This one is 24 years old. It's been longer than that since I worked on a solenoid or a starter. Memory says solenoids get pitted and need replacing, while starters get rebuilt. Seems to me I have a couple of rare starters on a shelf...

Still a work in progress. Over the winter, the fuel line fed through the underground tank's filler pipe. Stuffed with a towel and under a tin can ranks as inelegant. The plan for permanent replacement was to drop the gen fuel line through the underground tank's breather pipe. Today was install...

Ground.

Finally this morning at 8 I had the chance to spend some quality time with my 003A. Hold its hand, ask why its shorting its starter, find where its seeping diesel, see how to fix these. If you were lucky enough to go through life in tune with machinery, what transpired will not surprise you. It...

Thought about a plug-in and decided to go with fixed wiring instead. It was done by a licensee. My input was A) Don't waste my money, and B) Don't put anything here you wouldn't use yourself. I was surprised how fast the job went. You can tell he was a local licensee: he didn't label any of the...

Thanks. Spent a few minutes looking and feeling. Nothing obviously amiss. No chewed insulation or busted cable. Behind/below the slave is where the stranded steel ground wire begins.

Still haven't had a hands-on chance to look yet. The TM doesn't mention the slave receptacle in the text or even in the drawing that shows it. The first schematic shows it in a dotted box (optional?) as J15. So what is the slave receptacle for: A) 24v output to jump start something with low...

Thanks, Ike and Chainbreaker. I'll look at that. Haven't noticed any unusual wiring off the battery terminals, but there might be off the hot starter or solenoid post. I've got the TM for this. It's not showing what would be termed a slave jump.

Haven't had a chance to look into this yet, so I'm no help. All I can add is that the ground is bare wire, uninsulated. It was a great surprise to see it spark when in proximity to the trailer floor. This is the main ground, the one connecting to the rod driven underground. I would not have...

Can't say with assurance where the wire gets hottest. I only tested (touched!) the wire under the control panel and about 3' beyond. Both very hot in just a few seconds. Seemed like a dead short when the starter is engaged. It's the suddenness that's perplexing. There was no sign of anything...

Thanks. I hope to be able to work on it this week.

Everything has been top notch with this mil gen. Run it for routine test every few months and it's been A-1. Suddenly it isn't. This weekend when I tried to start it, as I hit start there was a spark where the ground wire is close to the trailer bed, and thereafter a dead short between the...

Here's a mechanical interlock that meets VA code and does what's needed without wasting money. http://www.ebay.com/itm/FAC-SD100X-Square-D-Generator-interlock-kit-QO-100-Amp-Panel-Older-UL-LISTED-/290991027691

That would be elegant for sure, but these portable pumps are more convenient and easier to hook up. While the specs are certainly exaggerated, both the ebay pumps appear capable of sucking the distance and can be mounted on the trailer in easy reach of the batteries. Perhaps most important...

I'll pull the float and see if it's free-moving. Here's a more powerful pump which might go at a reasonable price. http://www.ebay.com/itm/12v-24v-Diesel-Fuel-Oil-transfer-pump-10-GPM-12-volt-DC-1-00-SPECIAL-/301016188729?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4615f68739

The gauge was reading below 1/4 tank. Is that enough to get the pump going? The underground fuel tank is 18' away, and half that distance is vertical lift, half at the start, half at the end. Seem to be asking too much of the 003A pump to draw that distance, so I'm looking for a helper pump...

The MEP 003A started quickly and ran just fine for its half-hour test today after a half-minute of oil smokey exhaust. It hadn't run since February. I let it take on the biggest load, the heat pump with emergency heat. That's too big for this, according to the meter. Drew appreciably over 100%...

Have a couple of licensed guys coming by this weekend to estimate the job. Because of the gen I have, my Craigslist ad began "Are you a mil veteran with MEP-003A experience? I have one on a trailer in ... " Target advertising.