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Engines / Lister LT1
« on: October 24, 2021, 07:03:48 PM »
Hello to all. I’m new here. I bought an LT1 on gumtree for £300. I had been looking for a diesel genny to be my primary genny should power go out. I’m in Ulster so there is seldom a lister for sale and normally they are very expensive so I was happy to get one for £300.

The genny was working fine when I bought it. I only give it a wee run a few times. I’ve had it for about 3 months. Today when I went to it to service it I noticed it was down on voltage. 70v when it should have been over 220 or whatever. I took the back cover off and noticed two little capacitor looking boyos were damaged. I also noticed a damaged clip and the races the brushes run on on the rotor were filthy and one of the little arms that holds the brush wasn’t springing nicely back to its position. So I fixed that and changed filters. Fuel was a horror show. I’m amazed it was even running. So fired her up and she was making 130v now. I noticed when I moved the throttle control it increased the voltage so I screwed it up until it showed me 230v. I tried my drill and it was spinning at a good speed but still seems low on power.

Look at the photo, what is that little board? Are those capacitors that are damaged? The machine looks tired in general. Do you think I can rely on this machine? Are there tests I can do to verify the power side of things? The engine is grand. Starts first crank, not smoking. Sounds like is should in the respect that it makes the most shocking racket imaginable but is nice in its dieseling way.

Thanks in advance.

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