I'm setting up my ST5 on my 6/1. I'm handy and mechanically inclined... but electricity baffles me. There is no panel box on my ST5, just a cover where one might have been. When I open up the cover, I pull out 6 wires. There's U1 U2 U5 U6... I know what to do with them. There's also 2 other thinner wires that have no label. Can I safely assume these are grounds?

Thanks.

Hi folks!

I found this site after some web searching for answers on my Listeroid. I purchased a new 6/1 from George at Utterpower in late '05. The engine sat in my shed untouched for years. The inside was extremely clean. I was not able to find any casting sand. George had said that the lot that mine came from was the cleanest he'd seen. This past weekend, my son and I finally got it set up and fired it up. Here's the $0.50 version:

I intended the 6/1 to live in my shed with the exhaust piped out the back wall. The 10x14 shed is built on 9 concrete pillars which are 12" in diameter, and 36" deep into the ground. There are 4x4s accross the pillars, then the shed's 2x4 floor joists on top. then the 5/8" plywood floor. I put 2 more 4x4 rails down on the floor (about 4' long) and bolted them through the floor. The 6/1 went on top of these rails and was bolter to the 4x4s. After the coolong tank, exhaust and fuel delivery was all aet up, we started it up.......  After about 20 seconds I had to shut it down because everything was shaking so badly. I literally was afraid the shed would come apart.

Obviously, the shed floor had way too much give to it. The 6/1 was also not directly over one of the 4x4s that run the length of the shed. We took it all apart again and took up the floor. I intend to add some additional concrete pillars that come just through the floor. I'll mount 4x4s to the pillars and the 6/1 to the 4x4s. That way, it'll still be 'in' the shed. But it won't be connected to it.  I have a ST5 gen head to add once the engine is in place.

All the best.