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  1. J

    Picked up 6 MEP-802A gensets and will be documenting making them all runners here

    soaking heavy rusted items in vinegar for a few days works a miracle. makes Motorcycle fuel tanks look like.
  2. J

    Savagleable, or a boat anchor?

    I have a 275 gallon home heating oil tank that's way worse. I use a cim-tek 2 micron filter that removes everything larger than a virus. I even use the fuel pumped from that in my HPFP picky rigs
  3. J

    best diesel motor oil for a MEP-802A ? Climate range 10 to 80 degrees

    its true most people never notice unless they are a money miser type who runs engines for the long haul- like my VW PD 1.9 that ate a cam a decade ago and the previous owner pretty much gave it to me due to the high repair bill totaling out the car. I stuffed a cam in it, used amsoil 3000 high...
  4. J

    best diesel motor oil for a MEP-802A ? Climate range 10 to 80 degrees

    Fathers 1966 Craftsman Tecumseh powered lightweight magnesium mower (without all the safety BS) still going strong. Always used high zinc oils and changed yearly.
  5. J

    best diesel motor oil for a MEP-802A ? Climate range 10 to 80 degrees

    VW PD TDI diesels eat cam's due to lack of zinc, with your genset firing up at 10F cold plus with these engines racing up to 1800RPM doesn't help either, if It were mine Id use Mobile one Turbo diesel truck Synthetic 5w40 with a Zinc additive.
  6. J

    best diesel motor oil for a MEP-802A ? Climate range 10 to 80 degrees

    Slight edit as I contradicted myself ;) My father flew century series jets with AL and has been a Amsoil dealer since 1978 So we use it in everything except we both still use Dyno oil in stuff that sits around with non-use as we change it every other year regardless of hours and also because...
  7. J

    Barstow

    If your talking about the Yarmo IP yard I had a great experience, drove threw the night to make it to them by closing. they stayed late, let me fire up the genset to run my air compressor and air up the tires. I pulled outside the gate and took my time hooking up. Great experience with IP at Yarmo
  8. J

    LTT-TQG mounted genset ground stud

    I was wondering about this, my 803A is in the back of my Toyota that has a plastic bed liner- is the house ground enough or should I ground the MEP as well?
  9. J

    LTT-TQG trailer with MEP-802a genset

    mine is a 05 with bulbs except the blackout lights, they are a strip of LED's
  10. J

    First Real load on my 803a

    Added the coffee pot, toaster and a space heater- ran it for 20 minutes like this smoke stayed blue until I reduced load
  11. J

    LTT-TQG trailer with MEP-802a genset

    http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?31824-Civy-truck-to-MIL-trailer-wiring-info
  12. J

    LTT-TQG trailer with MEP-802a genset

    I swapped the 12 pin for a 7 way trailer plug, when I had it apart I applied power to every wire and couldn't get the LED "cat eyes" to work. I will do a search for a Mil schematic :)
  13. J

    First Real load on my 803a

    got my 50A wired in and put a 75% load on the 803A water heater and 2HP well pump alone did the trick. Ran the well pump 30 minutes strait while watering my lawn. Check out these crispy critters that came out, felt like it was hailing when I walked around the unit- lol. As everyone said the blue...
  14. J

    LTT-TQG trailer with MEP-802a genset

    Awesome, yeah I decided to keep my ltt-tqg and just swapped it to 12v and wow- those lights are bright! Cant get the LED triangles to work though
  15. J

    LTT-TQG trailer with MEP-802a genset

    Yes, I did this one for $99 http://www.amazon.com/Combo-Towing-Pintle-Adjustable-Receiver/dp/B00BHFQBVE?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
  16. J

    New to me MEP 802a

    Your genset looks like a turn key runner! I had to start mine at the IP yard to power my compressor as the tires were flat. I changed the fluids and called it a day.
  17. J

    School me on my water separator please

    that diesel looks great, you would spot water in a second! Does anyone know how much the water sep filters the fuel or is the second cartage one that does all the filtering?
  18. J

    Wet stacking, RPM, I wonder aloud too much

    I think a lot of these units come wet stacked. my 2hp well pump kicked on while my water heater had the top element on and I had chunks of carbon all over the top of my 803a
  19. J

    How To Upset A State Trooper.

    that's one nice thing about living out here, we don't get stopped for things like this- no plates needed on single axle trailers either. I even pulled my 803A home threw cali 20mph over the limit for a thousand miles and not a problem. Your pintle does look a bit crazy though
  20. J

    MEP-802a load with pallet jack

    most 803's come mounted on the trailer, so its hookup and go.
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