Scored a $250 Kubota GL7000 Diesel Generator

[supton]

Is the debris ferrous? I'd check with a magnet.

How expensive is a head gasket? I think at this point it's worth pulling the head. Although you have nothing to lose by trying to put a breaker bar onto the flywheel and trying in both directions. It's probably a loss--but it's worth the same in multiple pieces as it is in one piece. Nothing to lose by doing some teardown, and you might even get lucky.

 

[SupremePossum]

I just sold it for $850 with the cart etc to some buy who has a unit that is smashed up with a bad generator end

I tried barring it over, no movement at all

 

[The motor guy]

Sounds like it ran out of oil since you said the oil drain hose came loose. Always wondered about that. My boat has one of those with the little swivel coming off the drain pan. Makes you wonder, they probably aren't going to get rid of something unless it's just junk and doesn't run anymore. You still made off good though.

 

[SupremePossum]

It has low oil shutoff though, which has me wondering if that was the real cause

 

[SimpleSyrup]

The question I went in circles with was how much to spend on a generator where most years we never loose power. Sure we are 10 minutes from the Delaware ocean, but the power company has put up tons of huge metal poles. And say they have a lot of automatic back feeding around failed circuits. And they are a COOP which seems better run than the power companies in upstate NY.

I lost power a few times for up to 2-4 hours per time the first few years after I got married. Never again I said.

In the last 14 years since I've owned a generator, I've lost power for a total of 10 minutes combined. The longest duration being the time it takes for a recloser on the line to click over as a squirrel gets cooked.

It is what it is.

 

[The motor guy]

I lost power a few times for up to 2-4 hours per time the first few years after I got married. Never again I said.

In the last 14 years since I've owned a generator, I've lost power for a total of 10 minutes combined. The longest duration being the time it takes for a recloser on the line to click over as a squirrel gets cooked.

It is what it is.

The power never goes out around here either. We actually have 3 phase lines out on the main rd. Makes me wonder if we're connected into the fire station or something like that. I think most semi rural areas have 3 phase power though

 

[SupremePossum]

I lost power a few times for up to 2-4 hours per time the first few years after I got married. Never again I said.

In the last 14 years since I've owned a generator, I've lost power for a total of 10 minutes combined. The longest duration being the time it takes for a recloser on the line to click over as a squirrel gets cooked.

It is what it is.

Don't discount the piece of mind you have that if it does go out, you won't be without

That too still has big value

 

[cptbarkey]

I just sold it for $850 with the cart etc to some buy who has a unit that is smashed up with a bad generator end

I tried barring it over, no movement at all

Dang that is a shame. With patience you could have found another engine on fb marketplace. I dont really look for the 2 cylinders much myself but there has been a sea of d722s.

 

[The motor guy]

Dang that is a shame. With patience you could have found another engine on fb marketplace. I dont really look for the 2 cylinders much myself but there has been a sea of d722s.

Why, are they problematic or something?

 

[cptbarkey]

Why, are they problematic or something?

Whatever it was attached to usually dies first.

 

[crashz]

I suspect water got into the fuel system. The fuel filter looked like a strawberry milkshake in the video. Off-road fuel should look like diluted ATF not Pepto. Rust on the fuel cap was also a bad sign.

 

[The motor guy]

I suspect water got into the fuel system. The fuel filter looked like a strawberry milkshake in the video. Off-road fuel should look like diluted ATF not Pepto. Rust on the fuel cap was also a bad sign.

Not if its on the outside. It was on an offshore platform he said. Something like that would rust in short order unless it's stainless.

 

[SupremePossum]

Dang that is a shame. With patience you could have found another engine on fb marketplace. I dont really look for the 2 cylinders much myself but there has been a sea of d722s.

Yeah, I thought about keeping it, but the problem is that it was pretty rough. I think it may have been a little too rough to be a long term project. I also have no idea if it even generated power (Odds are it does, but who knows) so after all that hunting for an engine, and the work to swap it, I could find out it doesn't work anyway

I suspect water got into the fuel system. The fuel filter looked like a strawberry milkshake in the video. Off-road fuel should look like diluted ATF not Pepto. Rust on the fuel cap was also a bad sign.

The outside was cloudy, like the plastic was faded. The inside looked good

I think I figured out how it died, maybe. When I got it there was some wire around something near what I assumed was the throttle, attaching it to something else. Thinking back, that was the shut-off solenoid. I wonder if the low oil switch would have actuated that? It seems like it may have quit working because of low oil pressure, and someone just wired that up to get it running again, meaning it did in fact run without oil