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Actually bleeding of the fuel system takes 5 minutes and is described on page 152 of this manual:
http://igor.chudov.com/manuals/Military-Generators/MEP-006A/TM-5-6115-545-12_Operator_Maintenance.pdf
Like you, I wasted a lot of time until I found that page 152. Mine was empty of all fluids.
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Sgt Racing, would you recommend any retailer and item (ether bottle) that naturally fits this generator? Maybe I just used a wrong bottle.
Good luck with the locked up genny. Maybe you can take off the exhaust manifold and somehow add some Marvel Mystery Oil to each cylinder? Just a small...
Nehog, I gotta say that I would also look at improving the color of the text, it is hard to read indeed due to low contrast. Simply making the text lighter would do the trick. But I am very happy with the content of this forum.
Re: ether. The generator came with NO fluids, and NO ether bottle...
Got my MEP-006A generator to run, it runs pretty good, I think.
Still need to figure out what to do about the ether cold start system. It does not seem to do anything.