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If the battery voltmeter works, you will see voltage drop when the glow plugs are engaged. This is why these sets have huge batteries.

If you want a run away diesel, put fuel products in or near the intake. The MEP 002 and 003 engines have pistons with three compression rings and one oil control ring, they do not need any additional fuel when cranking. Ether is really bad, gasoline fumes and the like offer little in ignition...

Cloudy fuel is from water, no potion you add will remove water, only a drying agent like dehydrated magnesium sulfate as I described above removes water. Well, you could boil the water out but that is dangerous. Bacteria can only infect diesel if there is water. Remove water and problems are...

If you add gasoline that is 10% ethanol! more issues will happen. Doesn't take much water in gasohol to cause the alcohol to come out of solution.

When a rotor winding fails in a starter, it can cause much more draw and much less cranking speed. It gets hotter too. Hard to explain but it is true.

Most #2 diesel has a few percent biodiesel added for lubrication issues, this can absorb more water than straight petroleum diesel since bd is the methyl ester of fatty acids. Remember, soap is sodium salt of fatty acids and methyl alcohol freely mixes with water. This is why you have a milky...

Never on an indirect injected engine. These have higher compression ratios. If you don't have white smoke on cranking, you have no fuel so ether will do no good.

Thanks! I got the tag on the injection pump or at least tried. Been suffering from a C6 stenosis and cannot hold light and camera at the same time... thinking a pencil rubbing would be better. Eventually. Right now, we are ok in the power department, my OCD on power generation equipment...

The fuel filter base has an electric heater which is triggered by low temperatures. It should only heat when key is on but just in case, unplug it. It could drain battery voltage.

Deal. Boss man is sensitive with releasing photos of equipment but for shipping costs...

Well, thanks for the offer but when I get a 007, it will live most of its life on the trailer. Which means I also need a compact tractor to haul it to the shop. This hobby is getting complicated.

I will see if I can get an 007 then. Which means I will need a trailer with at least a 7k payload rating.

300 kW would be too much. Our factory has 208 service, the equipment we make is for all over the world and uses from 5 to 80 kW of power, both resistive and inductive loading with up to 15 HP 3 phase motors. Some of it needs 50 Hz so the 007 makes sense. We have a small transformer that can...

Diesel is running 2.35/ gallon right now. A DB2 is $600. That is 255 gallons, almost 4000 miles worth of driving. Then you have trouble, time and heartache. a quart of clean, used gasoline engine oil per fillup is fine. It will help transfer pump and cam ring life. And it won't coke up...

A few quarts of clean used gasoline motor oil per fillup won't hurt once and a while. But 50/50 waste diesel oil is bad for the pump. the clearances in the DB2 are just as precise as in the multifuel Ambac units. Otherwise neither could pressurize diesel to 2000+ psi. Used motor oil is far...

Actually, my employer needs it. We have an old Winco that refused to start yesterday. It is a 6BT powered unit, with the Lucas CAV injector pump, bad fuel probably froze plungers or transfer pump vanes. Inlet screen was plugged, separator had a cup of water in it. so I was looking at an...

Timing is set by the cam and shims, the gear driven rotation is just distribution, given the slot/hole overlap is a few degrees, you can be off a tooth and still run pretty good.

Reverse polarity fries other stuff, like fuel shutoff solenoid wiring. Cannon plugs are soldered, reverse polarity can overheat the joints, saving the circuit with an unintentional fuse action. The Cannon plug in question is the one above the injection pump. If the fuel shutoff doesn't...

No. Parasitic draw wrecks the gains.

Half the work? Only if you have a cutting torch ;), I did the cutting on a chop saw, bevels for full pen welding in a bench grinder. And welded with air cooled GTAW. Meaning lots of torch cooling breaks. But those welds are strong yet ductile. The bumper is just as strong as a class IV...