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You may run into an issue of carbon build up and perhaps some wet stacking if this is constant for days on end, and it never gets up to rated load, but the truth is these small air cooled diesel can tolerate light loads much better than larger water cooled diesel can. Ike

I would say bring them down here to the gulf coast for hurricane season, but people have short memories, and the gulf coast has not been hit hard in 5 or 6 years now, so few people are preparing for hurricane season the way they were doing in the 04-09 seasons when there were several major...

Sure it is no problem, but not exact as you describe, set to 120/208 3 phase, assuming you don't have any 240V only (many 240V appliances will be happy to run on 208V, just check the data plate to see if it says 208-230, or 230V only) loads, run 2 lines and a neutral to your house, this will...

Generator values are relative to the local market and season, up north this generally means highest prices are seen as cool weather approaches, but before it turns into an ice cube outside. For the gulf coast it is generally when huricane season is approaching this time of year. Recent major...

You have either a MEP-016D (MEP-016C converted with a Yanmar L70) or MEP-016E (MEP-016B converted with a Yanmar L100) both have knobs on the left side, but overall share few components. Either way I think the knobs that JimC on here makes (3D prints) would work for you, check out his ad in the...

Which style slave cable port do your generators have? I have both types on mine with no apparent scheme: MEP701a - 2 pin MEP-016D - 1 pin MEP-003a - 2 pin MEP-002a - 1 pin (looks retrofitted at a 45 degree angle in the 2 pin mounting bracket)

Yes, it is, so I am not sure it is all governor issue or not, but I have now more than doubled the load it will pull, so that is progress. I was running out of daylight at that point so decided to call it a day. I did not get as much time over the weekend to work on it as I would have liked...

I traced at least most of the problem to the compressible linkage in governor linkage, it should be 5.5 inches and had unscrewed out to about 6.25 inches. I am now pulling just over 10KW before it bogs down, I think I need to replace the ball joints on the linkage as there is a lot of play in...

Can you post photos, something does not sound right here. Ike p.s. Could this be some 3rd party non original starter on the MEP-002a, also is it a type 1 or type 2 starter?

Nothing yet, came down with some 24 hour bug (well more like 12 hour) this week, don't know what it was, but it came on fast and had some punch, 103+ degree fever, chills, etc. I have spent the last 2 days just trying to getting some of my energy back. I think I have slept about 36 of the last...

I would consider those engines to be a 10,000+ hour between rebuild engine, so yes there is still some life left, but those numbers are getting up there.

Considering I am getting to only about 30-40% load before the engine bogs down, and that I have changed the injectors out for working used ones on the 2 cylinders that were smoking and slow to fire off. (pop off pressure is right, spray pattern may be less than perfect), I can't see that the...

Thanks, for now I only tried to adjust engine speed at the knob, will check linkage, but I suspect with the way this sounds that the injection pump will be coming off soon. I bought an injector tester off ebay and tested / replaced these myself, but did consult Jerry on the process. Ike...

I have a MEP-003a that I bought about 8 months ago that I have been slowly fixing up, Anyway today I finally got around to doing a formal load test on it and the engine starts to stall out and rpms drop off at around 4.5 - 5KWs manually throttle addition will not pick up rpms, and addition of...

Onan rated the 3.25 inch bore 120 cu inch DJC civilian engine at 21.8 HP, the MEP-003a adds an oil cooler to that engine, and a .25 inch larger bored out displacement of 140 cu inch , so you should be good. Ike p.s. there was no Civilian 3.5 inch air cooled diesel J series 4 cylinder, but...

check the grounds for the control box, etc. Ike

The best deal I could find locally on batteries for my MEP-002a when I was looking a couple of months ago was for a pair of Group 51R Excide Classics from Tractor supply at $75 each, everyone else wanted around $100 for the same thing.

Mine are the same way, the MEP-002a fires right up and runs, the MEP-003a starts on 2 cylinders when it is cold 3 when it is warm (starts on the ones closest to the control box) and it takes a few seconds before the 4th starts firing, white smoke from those end two last another 30-60 seconds...

Check the cut out switch located under the fan shroud just forward of the oil filter, you can temporarily jumper it out to test.

I assume these are new to you, if so have you bled the diesel injectors?