Lincoln Ranger 9?

Late model Onan engines are crap. If it isn't a US built Onan, be wary.

-Carl

Could be damned near anything - they've used Subaru Robin, Honda, Kohler, Onan, Perkins, Deutz...

According to the Owners Manual I found at

's either an Onan P218 or a Kohler Command CH20S, both air cooled V-twins, electric start, pressure lube.

Meaning you might need to go get a U-1 lawn tractor battery, or a small motorcycle wet battery for it.

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PS: Lucky SOB... ;-)

Ranger 9s are nice machines, Gunner. They are pretty current and sell quickly when they show up around here. I recently refitted a bare gas welder with new leads, and this is how I did it: I first scrounged a bunch of welding lead of random sizes & lengths (mainly by watching local craigslist and also asking guys if they knew of anyone with any old welding lead) which yielded me after some swapping 3 50' pieces of 3/0 and one 90' piece of 4/0. Then I ordered 200' of 1/0 plus some Tweco fittings online, came to about $480. I sold the random leads I scrounged for about $440 IIRC so that made the big bite for new leads a whole lot less painful.

Despite its mintyness, you should of course check that the welder genset is generating, and you can go to a welding supply to see exactly how a Ranger connects to leads (it's probably 1/2" lugs) and come up with some borrowed welding lead to do some test welding BEFORE you do the swap.

A quick online scan shows asking prices for R9s at $1500-2000.

Grant

The Onans are expensive to fix, what about the Kohlers?

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Gunner

Google says:

The Ranger 9 welder is powered by an Onan twin-cylinder engine and is designed for stick, FCAW, MIG and TIG welding applications. As a generator, it can deliver 9 kW of 115 V/230 Va.c. power.

Kohler appears to be a real good company. I recently bought a welder with a Kohler engine and they have been great so far.

I would not pass on a good-running Onan, Gunner. Change the oil and air filter and don't abuse it and it will last a long time. I used to have a Miller Legend with an Onan motor and it ran incredibly smoothly and was the best stick welder I ever used. (Wish I still had it!)

Grant

Kohlers are expensive as well but not as bad as Onan. On the plus side is that you can often find after market parts for Kohlers.

BTW I've not been able to find you address. It must be in one of the older versions of Agent files.

Its a -1 machine, so its an older one. Started and ran fine, even with gas thats so skunky it made me want to puke. Wont charge the battery though..no output on the battery lead. A wire got hot sometime in the past, and burned away. It goes to some sort of thingy with 3 terminals on it. Might...might be a diode. Its bolted to the fan shroud. Its a Onan 18 hp engine. Welded just ducky, AC/DC+-. range selector switch is mighty sticky, as is the mode selector switch. Machine was pretty dusty, but only has 1725 hours on the Hobbs meter, which is working. No leads or stinger damnit...but Ive got some spare wire at the house. Its a multi-process machine. Ive got a WP18 torch tig torch I can put on it..and an Esab wire feeder I MAY be able to mode to operate with it. I may even have the proper Lincoln foot pedal. Im going to be home between Christmas and New Years, so will putter with it. Need to figure out what that wire did, and why it wont charge. And get a battery. I fired it up with one of those small portable Jump Start gizmos, with a couple small batteries in it. Pulled the choke, hit start for a few seconds, and RRRRRR off she went.

This is gonna be fun

Gunner

Voltage regulator/diode.

-Carl

It probably won't run a long time. Onan offshored their engine production a few years ago and the quality went into the dumper. Things like rods snapping and cranks wearing out very early (less than 500 hrs). Power equipment companies stopped using Onan engines en mass- most switched to Kohler or Briggs Vanguard plants.

-Carl

Yes, but offshore production issues can be fixed ..

GWE

At the customer's expense...

-Carl