Dylanss180
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I bought a MEP-802A off Gov Planet a month ago with 4.5K hrs on the meter and is non reset from 2000. Taking the chance of not really knowing what I was getting, I brought it home, changed filters and fluids and did the fuse mod, put some fuel and new batteries in it and it fired right up. Made a load bank for it and exercised it at 100% for several hours and it did it without an issue. I am currently in the process of doing all the preventative maintenance mods on it now.
I did a lot of scouring on this website to see what everyone has done with their setups and I did the following. I replaced the tank fittings with the brass o-ring fittings and the leaking is fixed, replaced the incoming fuel lines with braided stainless lines as well as the oil sensor line. The old ones were getting chaffed. Also doing the rodent prevention on it now. I will mention that I found a mouse nest in it today when taking the covers off. Luckily, nothing was damaged or chewed. When putting it back together today, I swapped out with stainless hardware and did nutserts where there used to be just nuts on the inside.
On the electrical side, I put in a waterproof plug where the power chord used to come into that I got from another post. I replaced the bad hz meter with an electronic one and also added a separate multi meter next to the voltage adjust knob to look at the current on each leg and did the illumination led upgrades as mentioned on the forum.
Learning from other peoples issues and seeing their fixes and sharing their experiences on this site has helped me a bunch knowing what to do upfront to save me the hassle later down the road. I wanted to give back and share some mod that I did that helped out my situation a lot when it came to vibrations.
I noticed, when I had my generator running on my little dolly, it would shake pretty well and the bracket that holds the oil pressure sensors would shake pretty well, it wouldn't really do that when it was placed on the concrete floor, but it bothered me anyway. When I had the covers off to do the rodent prevention I added a 1x1 l bracket the width of the gen to the bottom of the sheet metal where it was unsupported and would shake pretty well. I used some #10 self drilling screws to mount it to the sheet metal. Once getting everything buttoned up, I ran it briefly on my dolly and now the brackets barely move now. That can also be said for the fuel separator filter, it would shake a lot, now it is very steady. I recommend this upgrade to do if you have the covers off sometime. It took about 15 minutes to do the mod.
Next I will be tackling replacing the fuel return lines, change the aux fuel lines from -5 to -6 fittings and setup a stainless steel barrel for Aux fuel.
My plan is to put this as a backup gen in my back yard. i am building a new shed next year and plan on pouring a pad for this gen to sit under cover and out of the elements incase I loose power. I am thinking of making an exhaust stack to take it out thru the roof and am pondering doing a double wall exhaust pipe and use the heat from it to heat the shed or send it to my hydronic heating system in the house. We will see, depends on how far I want to go with this setup.
I want to thank you all again. I also need to build up some spare parts just in case something breaks. Stay prepared!!
I did a lot of scouring on this website to see what everyone has done with their setups and I did the following. I replaced the tank fittings with the brass o-ring fittings and the leaking is fixed, replaced the incoming fuel lines with braided stainless lines as well as the oil sensor line. The old ones were getting chaffed. Also doing the rodent prevention on it now. I will mention that I found a mouse nest in it today when taking the covers off. Luckily, nothing was damaged or chewed. When putting it back together today, I swapped out with stainless hardware and did nutserts where there used to be just nuts on the inside.
On the electrical side, I put in a waterproof plug where the power chord used to come into that I got from another post. I replaced the bad hz meter with an electronic one and also added a separate multi meter next to the voltage adjust knob to look at the current on each leg and did the illumination led upgrades as mentioned on the forum.
Learning from other peoples issues and seeing their fixes and sharing their experiences on this site has helped me a bunch knowing what to do upfront to save me the hassle later down the road. I wanted to give back and share some mod that I did that helped out my situation a lot when it came to vibrations.
I noticed, when I had my generator running on my little dolly, it would shake pretty well and the bracket that holds the oil pressure sensors would shake pretty well, it wouldn't really do that when it was placed on the concrete floor, but it bothered me anyway. When I had the covers off to do the rodent prevention I added a 1x1 l bracket the width of the gen to the bottom of the sheet metal where it was unsupported and would shake pretty well. I used some #10 self drilling screws to mount it to the sheet metal. Once getting everything buttoned up, I ran it briefly on my dolly and now the brackets barely move now. That can also be said for the fuel separator filter, it would shake a lot, now it is very steady. I recommend this upgrade to do if you have the covers off sometime. It took about 15 minutes to do the mod.
Next I will be tackling replacing the fuel return lines, change the aux fuel lines from -5 to -6 fittings and setup a stainless steel barrel for Aux fuel.
My plan is to put this as a backup gen in my back yard. i am building a new shed next year and plan on pouring a pad for this gen to sit under cover and out of the elements incase I loose power. I am thinking of making an exhaust stack to take it out thru the roof and am pondering doing a double wall exhaust pipe and use the heat from it to heat the shed or send it to my hydronic heating system in the house. We will see, depends on how far I want to go with this setup.
I want to thank you all again. I also need to build up some spare parts just in case something breaks. Stay prepared!!
