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Not at the moment. Not that I'm apposed to running it.. but no need at the moment. I got this unit as non-running. Rebuilt the IP, replaced glow plugs and harness... removed the factory fuel filter setup and installed spin-ons... serviced it out and re-painted. It's been running now...

If it doesn't cure it, I'll certainly hit you up on rebuilding the injectors. The pump has already been gone through but I have no way of balancing the injectors myself and for one set, it isn't worth building a pop tester. I'll take a video of how the process works. I use it in my IDI and my...

I'm gonna go on and order a few cans of liquimoly diesel purge and see if I can get them cleaned out without pulling the machine apart and sending them off for rebuild. I've had great luck with this stuff on other small mechanical diesels so we'll see. Stuff works by disconnecting the fuel...

That's what I'm concerned with at the moment. The exhaust port closest to the cooling fan smokes pretty heavily on startup. It has since getting it running. Its a white smoke but it clears after a few seconds of running at speed and no misfiring or anything... but makes me think there is an...

New air filter (and no haze or smoke from over fueling or lack of air). The fuel in the tank is treated and its had a good bit of dieselklean ran through it. I'll look at adjusting droop this weekend and if that doesn't fix it, pick up a few cans of diesel purge to clean the injectors with. I...

I'll give that a look. Ive not messed with any of it since having the pump off so it could very well be out of spec. I'll dig out my manuals and take a look. Thanks. Sent from my SM-A515U using Tapatalk

One of the filters is a water separator. I did clean the pumps originally when getting the unit running. 12.5k is the residential rating on these units so I'd assume it could handle it without issue based on what others have said. Its a load test, not what I'll actually run on the unit. Sent...

Hey all, Finally got around to hooking up my entire "load bank" to my stand-by mep-003a. I run 3 240v water heater elements in a small drum. Before installing the unit, I ran the unit on 2 elements which pull 17.4a each. Ran perfect but never hooked up the 3rd. Today, I hooked up the load...

Out of curiosity... did you check things over to find out why it was dropping compression? Valve adjustment or burnt valve, etc.?

I love the simplicity of the 003a... but I'd probably look to an 803a or something newer just for ease of finding parts.

After reading through this... I'm going to agree with what you are saying. A 4 cylinder compared to a 2 cylinder with the same load applied to both will get roughly the same fuel economy. Lets think it through a bit. The specs claim the 4 cylinder version uses twice the fuel. That is...

Just to verify, Ambac is still selling to the public.

Thats sad if they no longer sell to the public. I still get emails from them all the time and have direct contact info for the sales person I dealt with. To the OP... if you indeed have an Ambac M-50 pump and the screws and throttle lever are out, it may just take some work. Mine was stuck...

Mind blown. Thanks for correcting!

I wouldn't attempt that. Each port is fired at a different time so it won't work.

I hadn't seen the polaris lugs before. Those are slick.

Hmm.. AHJ never gave it a second look when we did the shop install as far as the bushings go. I like the taps for certain things. We used them on our grid tied solar install and have had good luck with them. What's your issue with them?

Pretty well buttoned up. Added a 30a 110v breaker and outlet to the main panel that feeds the bus that both the fridge and freezer are on. That way if needed, I can run my small inverter unit and keep things quiet. I also tied in the load test panel permanently. It's fed directly by the...

Made some progress this weekend. Isolated the neutral at the generator and finished wiring it up. Its done and ready to go electrically anyways. Need to get new batteries and I want to get a spin on oil filter adapter for it yet. Got most of our new circuits ran (instead of isolating...

More progress but no pictures at the moment. Was finally able to get my hands on the single conductor wire needed to pull the neutral from the 400a Meter/Main panel to the 100a subpanel/generator panel. They didn't have #1 aluminum in stock so went with #3 copper. Our hvac guys let me run it...