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Stan,
Glad you are progressing. Pat and I enjoyed meeting you and your daughter.
Four pushrods from smw70ss cost $29, again not counting shipping. I don't think I got fleeced, but if I was wiser about sourcing I probably could have saved some $.
I wish you had contacted me for the push...
I've not seen a blown injector gasket. Not tightened down enough? Copper internal to the heat sink, or the gasket for the heat sink? One cylinder flooded?
Jerry
You can't plug those 1500 watt heaters into the convenience outlet. Make up a quad outlet in a double box each side rigged with #12 wire on a short lead and attach the 2 #12s directly to the load terminals to load test.
Jerry
Keith,
You were right. No ground strap and this unit had been painted without one. I'm surprised they didn't have a fire as hot as the fuel line got. Maybe it was a desert unit in constant warm temps.
Now to find out why it ran raggedy yesterday morning and is getting clean fuel to the...
Update on the SMOKING fuel connection. Went out a few minutes ago, reconnected the charged batteries on the unit with "new" fuel tank and did the preheat. Return fuel connection still heating up but I cut it off before it got hotter than I could touch. With flashlight I saw a wisp of smoke...
Thanks Keith,
I haven't gotten back to that unit yet but had a really odd occurrence today on another I got the other day. Switch to preheat or to start and the fuel return hose at the tank starts SMOKING, the crimp sleeve gets almost red hot. I figure there must be a short in the tank...
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