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You are on your way! Keep at it. You seem to have good intuitiion and now that you know the unit runs you have confidence that the rest is just this annoying piddly stuff. I agree that using the priming pump and keeping it lubed up it should loosten up and stop sticking. The oil cooler and...

As a follow up I just got an MEP-016B unit up and running tonight with a totally empty filter housing, a dry tank, and a new fuel filter. I put about a half a tank of fuel in it and it took 373 strokes of the primer pump (Only took a few minutes) before fuel came out the top air bleed. Closed...

There are a ton of Hobbs meter variations, but I have noticed quite a few will quit counting after a few minutes of no running despite having power on them. I'm guessing they need some vibration to indicte the unit is running. Anyone else notice this effect? Take the power off and re-apply...

Now back to the priming episode... The filter housing has a central column where fuel enters the tube to go to the injection pump. If the housing is filled manually then I would assume the cover is off and thus the filter, if it is in the housing is not sealing as it needs the cover to clamp...