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You can 'spike' a diesel engine with other fuels to reduce the amount of diesel fuel consumed. As other posters have noted, it works far better on direct injection engines. Propane or methane (natural gas) injection as a secondary fuel in small doses does work well to 'clean up' the chambers...

The gotcha in running your generator on municipal low-pressure natural gas is that you have to have constant availability of municipal low pressure natural gas. Basically, you're protecting your dwelling against an outage of a utility supply by depending on a different utility supply. It is...

Yes, I'd guess it's leakdown past guides as well. A better question, though, is why there's so much oil in the cam boxes after shutdown - is there a problem with the drainback holes? Are you sure the crankcase isn't pressurizing when the engine is running?

There is an actual specification for gear oil being safe for yellow metal (brass/bronze synchronizers and bushings). Because it has hurt sales of GL5, more and more GL5 gear oils have been reformulated to remove the acids that preferentially eat yellow metal. Be sure to check the label on the...

^^What he said. A minor source of heartburn for people camperizing comm shelters and shop trucks is that their bulkhead mounted AC or HVAC systems (even the little 6K BTU ones) all run on 208/3 phase, which isn't commonly available at your friendly local campground.

Those lifters look suspiciously like SB Chevy parts...

If a hard start capacitor on the compressor motor solves the problem that's definitely the cheap/easy/simple way to go. I suspect it will if the running load is that small.

See post 22, this thread. The A1, A2... suffix has to do with which engine it uses, not what design/production generation it is. All the models were produced contemporaneously.

So I'm thinking that's the Graves Military Trail Ride command vehicle. The paint is too nice to put it anywhere but in the front anyway...

Until I looked at that press release I didn't realize that IP's contract was just for the rolling stock surplus. Will GL retain the non-rolling-stock contract, or has it gone to another contractor as well? I'm more than a little curious about parts, supplies, and gensets, among other things.

Well, one hopes that once it is haze gray it will, in fact, be under way.

I can scrounge up tent and a bedroll or two.

Gee, I'd never thought of that aspect of it - I always use a really old one-speed drill motor for this and just got good at really hustling up and down the bore to get the right angle. It does cause some problems when the stones want to come flying out at the top of the bore, but the speed is...

The study I saw gave highest lubricity marks to adding 10% B-100 (biodiesel) to your ULSD. It was also the cheapest option. With the biological aspect, you'd want to mix in some biocide for sure.

Carbs are not like spark plug wires. They have a lot of adjustments internally that may or may not be right for your engine. I've run across a lot of 'rebuillt' carbs over the years that I ended up rebuilding again. Also, there's a distinct possibility that you have a vacuum leak between carb...

Interesting that the block actually has 'GENSET ENGINE' cast in it. Wouldn't want to use the wrong block by mistake I guess - must be something special about them. Are you going to go back with the orange paint? Looks like it's pretty close to Kubota orange.

^^ What he said--Lots of honing oil and then a really, really thorough wash down of the bores with clean DF2 or Kerosene to get the swarf and stone particles out. You could do worse than to have somebody run it through a spray tank afterward. If it was small enough, I'd stick it in the...

Too early for a GL forklift, so that must be a DRMO forklift. Who knows how long it's really been like that...

I can't fault anything about it - partly because I am lucky enough not to have been in that particular environment (thanks to all of you who served there, btw), but mostly because it's just plain awesome modeling work. I'd like to see you go after it with a camera with a real macro lens -...

That piston looks great. Once you get the old rings off you might have to buff it a bit with fine abrasive to get the rust deposits off the tops of the ring lands. Looks completely serviceable.