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A little more information might help, is it shutting down on its own or do you just turn it off, how warm are we talking, how long have you let it run? If it is something sticking in the injection pump you might want to add some marvel mystery oil or ATF to the diesel fuel to help lubricate and...

Well it looks like I am the newest one to this club, just bought an H82 with 2 hours showing on the meter from Ft Polk today, they had a couple of dozen listed, mine went for $220, some went as low as $200. No ducting included though. Does anyone know the duct size off hand? Ike

You see a lot of variation in these MEP-016D's yours has the same relatively rare Walbro electric fuel pump that mine has, most have Purolator Gold-Flo pumps. Mine has a metal belly tank, and a different 3 way valve though (also stuck), the little separator with the glass bowl is left over from...

The problem is you can't be code legal with 6/3 SO cord, you could run a separate ground wire, but I think that this is an NEC violation since it is not in the same multi conductor bundle. I am not a professional though, so hopefully someone else can confirm. Regardless of the issue of...

Many cheaper (and some expensive) multimeters show false readings when measuring HZ on generator, so if you have not tested it on the generator you may want to do so. Adding a load to your measurements may help. Ike

There is also an ebay seller that has new in box original panels for around $50, search on mep generator panel

Some degree of balancing is needed to avoid burning out the windings on part of the generator, although it does not need to be perfect. The biggest concern is not to overload either half, so make sure that neither leg ever exceeds 50 amps or so on a MEP-003a and you should be good

I thought of that too, but it looks like the threads on all of those are too short See p.s. my other thought is to possible remachine a 12mm glow plug adapter to 7/16x20

Does anyone know of a source for a glow plug compression test adapter for the MEP-002a / 003a generators? These glow plugs are threaded 7/16x20 unlike most glow plugs which have metric threads. I have seen mention that one of the members here was making these, but I don't know who or if they...

The 2 big names in such rotary switches are Salzer or Kraus and Naimer

My big concern here would be the potential for contactor chatter such as while cranking (I am of course assuming a DC contactor since it would need to operate when the engine was off), there are also the various safeties you need to make sure the contactor would NEVER switch while the generator...

Sure, it is just when we get new people around here asking questions like this we have no way to know how much they know about what they are asking, or even if they are asking an appropriate question. As back to the original topic, which 3 phase voltage are they wanting? Ike

Ok, a couple of issues, anyone that says the MEP-006a is rated at 40KW single phase is making a guess, it may be an educated guess, but it is a guess since these generators were rated 3 phase only at 60KW, and that rating was likely somewhat conservative, as commercial generators powered by the...

I suspect it could be done, but I don't see that there is likely that much demand given we are talking about a 60+KW diesel generator here. Also it is not as simple as just 1 / 3 phase operation, since there are several potentially desired 3 phase voltages that would each need different...

It seems simple enough to feed a separate breaker by tapping into the line side of this breaker, and abandon it in place. Mount the new breaker in an external breaker box mounted to the side of the control box or output box. Maybe even some other place depending on your intended use, the NEC...

How much aggravation is there in replacing the output breaker? Keeping in mind that most commercial generators in this size range have breakers that do little or nothing to protect the generators from overload as the thermal trips are too slow to save them most of the time on slight overload...

I too am facing this on a MEP-003a, changed the injectors on the offending cylinders, which has helped but has not cured the problem. I also installed a new style 2 starter as the old style 1 was a bit on the weak side, this has improved ease of starting, but has not helped with slow to fire...

Did anyone ever follow up on this? Ike

Wow and I thought my nephew had a steep driveway :) Ike

Congrats and let us know how you progress