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This is great information. Thanks for this! I bet something inside is corroded on mine & hitting it made it adjust enough to start getting the connection/readings as it should again.

Yes, I planned to put the well nut and stuff on then fill it while it is outside of the generator to be sure it is good before installing it.

I have a tank off the machine I scrapped out, but thank you. This is exactly what I was thinking about doing, but thank you for confirming that it can be done. It makes me much more confident in doing it!

Back at it early this morning! Found that the drain blockage was in the line, not the valve. Replaced it with one I had and hooked it all back up. Removed the battery to clean everything up in there. Forgot that I had two brand new original rubber type fuel tank fittings. Since the top one...

Well, I had a setback on this thing that keeps snowballing! It started to leak fuel between the two solenoids. Of course, the way it is plumbed, it is at a super hard to get place and you need to disconnect almost everything to tighten it. Did all that, but in the process, the brass nipple...

Moved along with some more repairs. Got the well nut upgrade in. The original rubber one was over-tightened and the brass nut started to pull through the rubber like happens on these a lot. Once I got it out, I fed my small grabber claw from the engine side to the fuel fill and grabbed a wire...

Dang, I have had my first MEP 802A for 5 or so years not and it never looked like this. I just left it dusty. Impressive!

So, put in another 3 hours after work today. Confirmed it is the fuel drain well nut that the leak is coming from. Fittings are tight. Fuel drain is plugged up. So, I used my makeshift tank pump to empty the tank so it stopped seeping fuel in my garage. Removed the top on the radiator side...

Light in the Dark has a lot of stuff you might need. I have a machine I parted out as well, so, you can reach out to me as well if he doesn't have something. Some is on my store, other stuff I have no listed. I bet the machine is okay, a unit with more "money" handed it off and then they spent...

Guyfang, you are the most experienced I know on here with the generators... have you experience when I have above? Do you think my symptom was internal and my hitting it is what got it going, or by chance that just jolted something somewhere else? I really traced EVERY wire in a diagram & the...

Anyone following this thread that isn't on the other, I did figure out the M8, percent load issue. Visit that thread for the details. Onto the rest! Seems that the upgraded well nuts are in low supply, except from the places that want to charge more to ship each one than the part itself. I...

Amazing! That is a good refrence. I'm still going to pull the ones off my scrap set but good for others that don't have that option.

Thanks for the tips! i do have a set that is scrap & I know all those plastic stand off's are on there. Didn't think to pull them. Will do it after work today and put them in the organizer of small parts for these machines. Side note: Why on earth did they make these solder on?!

Thank you for the explanation. From what you said, what I know, and what the wire diagram shows, it makes very clear sense to me now on exactly what it is doing, and how it is doing it. Side note... just by luck, I found a complete paper set of TM's on top of the dumpster today that came in...

In all fairness, it was only right outside of my garage, haha. I just had other projects inside. But, not that the top is off I had to make room as I didn't want it getting rain and stuff in there. It's dusty but doesn't look like it really got wet in there so far. But yeah, inside work is...

You'd be supersized how many times a rubber mallet has loosened things up that were stuck on equipment that has sat, but I get your point. I don't quite understand how the CT works, and am not sure if it has anything that moves on the inside... that is why I thought of it. Had contactors not...

It may move freely because it is not moving the pump levers at it should. They may have "missed" the hole when installing. Have seen this the other way where the pumps "missed" the hole but were way beyond full throttle and you'd go to start it & it would scream until it died out of fuel in...

I just got this tester a few weeks ago and am happy with it for the cost. It does a few extra things over the $20 Harbor Freight one. https://amzn.to/3Y3Mmyi

Took the top off to dig into the percent load guage issue deeper, and found a few things. Ground on the front panel was loose. Easy fix. Noticed that a few of the fuses/diodes had be changed at some point in the control box. Wasn't as obvious before. As with a lot of these, a few wires had...

I made a completely separate thread for the percent load gauge since it's a pretty in depth topic itself that I didn't find it's own topic on at all; https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/mep-802a-m8-percent-load-gauge-issue.212356/ I will post anything related to that topic on there from here...