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If yours is the single cylinder Onan MEP-016b/701a it has both an electric and a mechanical fuel pump, the electric pump is a transfer pump that refills the onboard fuel tank from an optional external tank (is controlled by a float in the fuel tank), the mechanical fuel pump feeds the engines...
A MEP-701a IS a MEP-016b in an ASK housing, for some reason they just decided to give it another model number unlike the MEP-002a and MEP-003a with ASK perhaps because the MEP-701a ASK upgrade was a depot job and the MEP-002a/003a was field installable.
A quick rundown on the MEP-016 model...
Out of all the stuff I have bought from GL, the best bang for the buck deal was probably a big 5 foot tall HP color laser printer, retail new cost $13,500. Bought from GL 18 months old and less than 80,000 pages printed (less than 1 month use at rated duty cycle) paid $300 as scrap, only...
I have bought 3 generators (1 MEP, and 2 industrial models 3-125KW) from GL along with a diesel powered high pressure air compressor 2MC1A, and a couple of electric fork lifts, and a few assorted other things. Of the engine powered items, only the little 3KW MEP-701a was ready to run after...