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bison

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gonna be looking at a (prob 20+ yrs old) 12.5 kw 3 cyl lister diesel power plant tomorrow.
Any thing in particalar i have to be aware of or watch for with these things?
 
Assuming it runs!
1} does it have a solid operational charging system for its own starting battery?
2} Are parts available?
3} Service and owners manual?
4} control circuits and governor action to assure 60 cycle operation and noise reduction (electrical cleanliness)
5} Is it noisy and will it need a separate "room"?
6} Is it setup for switchover manually or automatically?
7} Will it power what you need to be powered for continued operation?

Jim
 
Check on replacement parts for things like injection pumps and water pumps. Generators don't run much and that's hard on little parts. When you need them you don't want to worry about them.

The best thing you could do is find a crossover for the engine that is in it. My diesel Onan is only 30 years old but they no longer made the water pump. My saving grace was the fact that a Studebaker Champion uses the same one. Is that engine in anything else that would make parts easier?

It should have low hours (mine has 950 which I think it quite a few). Make sure it has been treated well. That size should run a place well depending on whether you are all electric. My 19K will run the whole farm easily. Sure is nice to not have that concern when it storms.
 
(quoted from post at 16:47:33 01/17/14) Check on replacement parts for things like injection pumps and water pumps. Generators don't run much and that's hard on little parts. When you need them you don't want to worry about them.

The best thing you could do is find a crossover for the engine that is in it. My diesel Onan is only 30 years old but they no longer made the water pump. My saving grace was the fact that a Studebaker Champion uses the same one. Is that engine in anything else that would make parts easier?

It should have low hours (mine has 950 which I think it quite a few). Make sure it has been treated well. That size should run a place well depending on whether you are all electric. My 19K will run the whole farm easily. Sure is nice to not have that concern when it storms.
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s far as that goes i have build a generator about 40 years ago from an air cooled 3cyl MWM diesel out of a tractor and a 11 kva generator to power our farm back in Europe,..it ran trouble free for many years.
I am sure i can make any engine fit if need be.

The Listers of the past are known to be relyable slow running engines and there is a dealer not to far from here and parts are still available.I am just not familiar with these lister engines.
,that is why i posted the question.
 
(quoted from post at 16:39:00 01/17/14) Assuming it runs! YES IT DOES
1} does it have a solid operational charging system for its own starting battery? HAND CRANK START
2} Are parts available? YES
3} Service and owners manual? PROB NOT
4} control circuits and governor action to assure 60 cycle operation and noise reduction (electrical cleanliness) NOT SURE,ITS ONLY STANDBY POWER ANYWAY
5} Is it noisy and will it need a separate "room"?
6} Is it setup for switchover manually or automatically? DON"T MATTER
7} Will it power what you need to be powered for continued operation?

Jim
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It is just gonna be for standby power in case the grid goes off.
I have a smaller genset but that is just a cheapy China one and it is just enough for the house
 
Well,.. that didn't go to well.
Made the 130ml one way trip to go look at the supposedly good running 2 and 3 cyl Lister gensets only to find the plants sitting in 3" of snow with an non capped exaust pipe filled with snow and engine ofcourse.... solid stuck.
Guy said it ran fine last summer!,..yep,.. were is te crank? :roll:
OK, looked at the 2 banger sitting right beside it.
Not stuck but no way to try start it as the tank had a hole in it and no crank either
Was informed that there "could" be something wrong with the generator as it was not making power.
I said OMG ,Was it to much to tell me these things last night when i asked all the question you dumb F?

What a waste of a day:x
 
Had that happen to me many times.Had a service call one time.150 miles one way. Said engine wouldn't start. Get out to the site. No batteries,no fuel and a rats nest in the control box. Then the customer refused to pay his bill. Because I had not fixed anything. Even though he told us it had ran the day before.Nothing I could have done for it on site.
 
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