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The harmonic damper isn't there to correct imbalance, although many have this provision. The purpose is to damp crankshaft torsional vibrations. Diesels need this far more than gasoline engines due to higher compression ratios and sharper ignition conditions (diesel clatter). prolonged idling...

How many miles on the engine? More importantly, how many starts on the starter? Faster spinning engines start easier. Because the air is hotter in a faster spinning engine, making less ignition delay.

You should feel warmth around the terminals after one preglow. Are you sure they are getting power? ANY starting fluid is dangerous with these engines.

Did you know we have a hot rod sub section for CUCVs?

Adding a turbo will do nothing to the low, fixed speed of these engines. Sure, they will run up to 2200 RPM but that is about it. The little 1.9 liter turbo diesel in my VW is just getting on its power curve there. These engines have very long pistons with additional compression rings...

Forget it, that engine is designed for single speed use, it has fixed timing and being indirect injection, is only good for about 30 Hp. Yes, 140 cubic inches but only 30 Hp. You might make it work but without a governor, over speed is a problem. You won't want to run it under the flyball...

Frequency meters do fail, they are a sensitive ammeter, reading full scale when 200 micro amperes is flowing through them. That is 0.20 milliamperes. When reading 60 Hz, it is only 100 micro amperes so it isn't much force pushing the needle against a tiny clock spring that is wound from wire...

If the water heater elements are 4500 watt, as most are, it will do it no problem. That is how I load test mine, it is good for 80% so you should be able to swing your other loads.

Not three phase but 120/240. The difference in reconnection is angular as three phase is 120 degrees out of phase where 120/240 is 180 degrees out of phase.

Even on these ATC fuses, bad contacts can cause heating of the blades which heats the fuse element which then causes it to blow at lower than rated current. The old tube style were even worse at this problem as the elements were soldered to the end caps, solder melts and the fuse fails in a...

100 miles, did the engine even get to operating temperature? rofl Yes, I know you have done cross country recoveries. Glad to see you are back in the saddle.

They were the THING back in the 1930s before off road tires were common, back then only the most major roads were paved. My dad would ride a school bus and on one day, the driver had donned chains. An angry farmer scolded him at a stop "if you want to plow, get off the road and into the...

About the only con of the Lima MAC as installed is the 208 volt 3 phase low wye stock connection. But under the NEMA junction box are the 12 leads and all it takes is a little know how, some #4 SOOW wire and a double pole breaker to convert it to low zig zag for 120/240 single phase split. A...

Yes, 10kW MEP 003A

Now yet another thing to check...overhauled the starter in my 1031 in the spring and have been driving it a lot.

The glow plug ballast resistors are in pairs for heat dissipation, they put off just as much heat as the glow plugs themselves. Redundancy? Not even as failure of one would cause the other to rapidly fail, just like when glow plugs fail.

I don't think Miller Dynasty Welders could get any more modern, all of them will run on 208 three phase easily, and to their maximum output. Sure, the documentation lists 240 three phase as well as 480 volt but they also run fine on 120 volt single phase, if you have enough current, with...

Jerry to the rescue! We have a welding forum, ask any question...

Many of the 1031 governors were wired incorrectly, for example the wire to the injection pump should be to stop the engine if over speed condition occurs, mine was wired to the fast idle/advance circuit. I disconnected it because it really needs a relay as the safety switches cannot handle the...

Any direction as it produces alternating current regardless of direction. It is pretty hard to degauss these generators where flashing would be needed. My 1031 had 2.7 hours on it when liberated from Uncle Sugar in 2012, it didn't need flashing.