How I tested a Onan 423D diesel engine (with videos)

A lot of people are trying to download videos. They are hosted on my home computer, so download will be slow. Please do not hit RELOAD in the middle of a download. It is slow because there are so many downloads. All the videos are there. My internet access slowed down to a crawl, but, I think, all my pages should work for you if you are patient enough. Sorry about it. It should become better in maybe 1 hour or, likely, much less.

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is this a direct injection unit or one with prechambers? if its DI id try to fit a small turbo to it

I have no idea. Good question. Why would you want to fit a turbo to it, if it runs fine already?

The best use fot it would be to set the speed to 1,800 RPM with the governor, fit a generating head to it via a splined shaft and U-Joint, that would give you a near perfect generator. The minus here is that it will be relatively bulky, but it could put out 20 kW 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. These engines were fitted to Onan generators.

I found info on those generators in Google

Onan Generator Model #: 20DL4L31777D Generator Serial #: C880109432 Onan Engine Model #: L423D-I/108900 Engine Serial #: B883331856

1.4 Hours, 1 & 3 Phase (Rated for both), 60 Hz, Current Voltage 120/208, 20 kW, 25 kVa, 12 Lead Reconnectable, 30 Amps @ 480 Volts Auto Start/Stop, Safety Shut Down, 12 Volt Alternator, Engine Mounted Air Cleaner, 80 Amp Circuit Breaker, Standard Generator Panel, Standard Engine Panel, Engine Mount Radiator, Skid Mounted Genset Dimensions: 5'L x 30" W x 42" H i

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:28:19 +0000 (UTC), with neither quill nor qualm, Ignoramus31708 quickly quoth:

How much did that beastie cost you, Ig?

I get only audio on the first AVI, no vid.

- The only reason I would take up exercising is ||

so that I could hear heavy breathing again. || Programmed Websites

Approximately $180. It is 60 horsepower. I recently bought from the military a whole bunch of big things -- four diesels (looks like two Cummins L423D and two DJCs), one 5 kW gas generator, one big 3 phase vacuum pump, and two enormous hydraulic cylinders. I am slowly bringing that stuff home. So far it is just one Cummins and the 5 kW generator.

That's upsetting. It is a DivX video, I could watch it with VLC and mplayer. What did you use?

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because i always do things like that. tinker with things until they work the way i want them to. also turbos increase efficiency of the diesels. id probably use it to power some project buggy of some kind

Well, if you want it, I will offer it for sale. I would not modify it in any way though. This is the sort of thing that can run 20k hours before overhaul (and can be overhauled).

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has it got an SAE bellhousing?

It has some sort of bell housing adapter, not sure what, but I can find out. Let me know what you want to measure.

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On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:10:36 +0000 (UTC), with neither quill nor qualm, Ignoramus31708 quickly quoth:

Man, those are "stolen" prices, that's great. With your hauls, you should replace your pickup with a 1T tow truck, eh? I've seen all sorts of niceties hanging from the hook of tow trucks. Better yet, get a rollback. SuhWEET!

Real Player through Firefox on XP.

OK, I downloaded it and tried to play it with Windows Media Player 9. Hmmm, it plays audio only. Hmmm, I just retried the downloaded file with RP and it 1) says some portions of this file will not display properly. 2) prompts for a Real Player update. I do the update and it says "no updates are available."

- The only reason I would take up exercising is ||

so that I could hear heavy breathing again. || Programmed Websites

Restrict *avi downloads to wget only. ;-)

BTW, they also play properly in xine.

I just learned that it has glow plugs and that startup in 35 degree weather is very easy with those.

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