Actually, no signs of oil leaks at all.
Yes, was planning to use just water because if it runs and can be made to make power, then I plan to pull it all the way down again, remove motor and gen from skids and bring skids and case panels to be blasted. Only 5 bolts left to remove to pull motor/ gen assembly off skids and the rust is pretty bad and needs to be blasted but don't want any chance of sand getting in motor / gen.
I reinstalled the water separator canister and installed 2 new fuel filters this morning. I used 6 micron for primary and secondary because I could not get the 10 micron filter till the end of the month and I also figure that with all the crud that was in the tank, I need all the filtration I can get for initial startup and such. The 10 micron filter should be here way before I'm ready to put this thing into service.
Yeah, I think the louvers will work - eventually. Actually may work now. After playing with it last night and thinking about it afterward, I'm wondering / guessing that part or all of the force required to actually open the louvers is supplied by fan suction?????? If that is true, then they'll probably work now. I was pushing on the lever that goes down to the lower hose and wondering why it was so hard to open the louvers last night. But now I'm guessing that the springs down there are actually for closing the louvers when the unit is off and not for opening them. Is this right? Opening the louvers by pressing on the louvers themselves required FAR less pressure than opening them by pushing on the linkage connection point.
Also, need to look better, but the radiator may not be as bad as I had thought. I think (like someone mentioned earlier in the thread), that all the crud at the lower hose was just collected there at the lowest point and not representative of the overall condition of the radiator.
I hope I can be in a position to fire this thing up in the next day or so. This weekend (and many more to come) just got blown out of the water this morning. The tree cutters showed up and dropped 4 LARGE trees in the yard in prep for our house addition project. 3 of them are MASSIVE oaks. One is 52" dia 2' off the ground. The other 2 are about 46". I have to cut all this crap up and move it to the burn pile and future-to-be-split-for -firewood-pile. Already got 1 tree back there ready to be split that was cut back in July. Probably splitting wood all weekend. YAY!!!
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