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Thanks Lucky. Looking at my K8, it is riveted (of course it is). I'll do the KloppK test on it and see what's what. Good idea re: K1. I know all about voltage drop and resistance. Seen many a 120 volt outlet overheat due to poor contact as well as a 5200 volt disconnect that was reduced to...

Love it! My reputation at work was a guy who thought outside the box. It was one thing when we did maintenance, we did everything by the book. We had to. High voltage, natural gas at high pressure, high pressure steam. All deadly stuff. That said, when we had a breakdown with a sub system or...

Thanks! I actually saw that on one of your posts. Very handy trick to know. Beats the 12 step procedure the TM has you do. Simple stuff first is always my mantra. More often than not, it solves the problem. I'll be in touch.

I agree. I was all set to do the test outlined in the TM but then I read the forum. I'm pretty sure this is the cause. It will run at 4000 watts for ever. Only when the load goes up does it trip the overload. Sounds like dirty contacts to me.. K8 looks like a sealed unit and the fact that it...

I have been faithfully reading this forum on a daily basis. You never know what tidbits you can pick up. My 802 has been flawless for over a year now. I've had 2 short outages in that time and it performed exactly as it should. I exercise it once a month using a 240 volt heater. I run it at...

Love that. I've had my 802 for almost 2 years now and not one power failure. It's like the old saying...if you have a spare tire you will never have a flat. I do run mine monthly with a 50 to 75% load for a 1/2 hour. Every time we have a storm roll through, I secretly hope for an outage. I'm...

I had the same issue with my 802. I wanted something my wife could use . I ended up installing an interlock. The 802 will not run the dryer or the water heater. She starts the genny then goes down and switches over the breaker from utility to gen, switches off the dryer and the water heater...

Even the air cooled Onan in my motorhome has a label saying not to run it with the enclosure open. Lots of engineering went in to airflow for maximum cooling.

Outstanding work Chris. You guys amaze me with your dedication.

Sounds like you have a handle on the application side. I agree with you regarding the heat exchanger. I am always amazed at how efficient they are. In our power plant we had scores of heat exchangers. Some were condensers and some were used in the plants HVAC and processing. I wish I knew...

Interesting subject. 30+ years ago I had a similar thought. I was given the opportunity to get a free 7.5KW MJDE Onan Marine generator out of an old Trojan Tri Cabin that was being demolished. I brought it home and it ran and produced power with very little work. I was working in a co-gen power...

You have to wonder what the situation was for this generator for it to get so bad. Amazing stuff. At work, we had a Wall of Shame where interesting failures were displayed. In the 32 years I worked there the wall grew from a 10 foot square to a 30X20 area. We had everything from a tube...

No worries! It's related to wet stacking...even if it's extreme...and it seems to me to be a pretty popular subject. Since I joined this forum, I've been picking through the generator section and am on page 250 or so. Wet stacking, fuel pumps, wiring to house seem to be very popular subjects...

I found a Carter pump P74018 is as close to a bolt on as you can get. $46 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000CSWR9M?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

That's awesome Matthew. Thank you!

You're probably right. Wow. The only engine I've seen close to that was a no start chainsaw. Fuel spark, compression. Pulled the muffler and it was clogged solid. The spark arrestor screen just caught all the oily mix. Never seen a diesel with anything but soot in the exhaust.

I'm not sure about my town. When I built my addition, a friend of mine and co-worker, pulled the permit. He and I went over what I wanted and what the codes dictated. I did most of the wiring and he stopped by to check my work. Because of that, inspection was a breeze. It never entered my mind...

Pretty amazing! I wonder how long it ran to get that bad?

That sounds like a great system. Sadly, being retired on a pretty much fixed income, it is way out of my reach. Looking at the components, it's almost twice what I paid for my 802. While I am electrically educated, having worked in a power plant for so many years and worked with 120 volts to...

And hot. We wore Tyvek suits with respirators for the soot but the boilers were still hot. We had two vertical boilers and we had to stand inside them to punch the tubes. I wore Timberland steel toed works boots and the heat from the tube sheet would seep through the soles until we had to get...