I have been looking at Carol Stream motor company for an YX1115. 23hp. anybody have any experiance with them or this engine?

The ad shows the engine with what looks to be a belt driven fan in the side of the hopper. That sort of scares me a little. They also have one on ebay that doesn’t mention the fan, it just says hopper cooled for 949+ 149 shipping.

So anyone got any Ideas, thoughts other places to purchase?

I appreciate any info you may have or knowledge you can share

Thank You In Advance

Bluecometk

I see a lot of discussion about processing waste motor oil and I was wondering why you cant just filter it. Why do you need to processing it?

If I were to use a vehicle remote oil filter assembly in line before a small centrifuge could I just use the oil that came out of the finished end to burn in a Diesel engine. Heating/ thinning and normal fuel system filtration taken into account?

 

Thank you for your answers in advance and sorry for the remedial question.


bluecometk

  Can you use a filter like a Racor 225Rm or R26 (normal vacuum side filter) with a gravity feed injector pump on a small air cooled Yanmar 10 HP diesel? Given a normal gravity feed position.

I would think the necessary flow rate needed to run the 10 HP diesel would be less than 2 Gal per hour. But that's just a guess.

Thank you in advance
Bluecometk.

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I am building a back-up Generator using a 10HP @ 3600 RPM Yanmar diesel and a Chinese ST type 8 KW  @1800 RPM Gen head. I have a Gates PowerGrip GT 2 Sprocket drive belt and sprocket system which is roughly 2 to 1(Drive/Driven)
Drive size 2.206/Driven 4.411. I have been building it for about 3 months on the weekends. What's taking so long is #1 I'm slow at building stuff, #2 Roller frame, custom gen/belt screw adjuster, battery box, tank over Gen head   mount, noise/ weather enclosure and onboard electric panel/control panel, #3 interruptions from honey dew list!

I'm fabricating everything first and trying it out, then I will tear it apart and paint/powder coat it all. At that time, I will take the Gen head apart and perform all of the tips and modifications I have learned from the forum and order the Utterpower CD and rectifier kit.

Today was first start up day. Engine, Gen, drive system, frame, just to make sure my theory worked. Well, it didn't go as planned. According to the engine manufacturer the linkage is set for 3600 RPM @ the linkage W.O.T. position. I have no real way to tell if it attained that RPM yet. I was going to use the generator voltage output, but that was only going up to 236 volts and it was wavering at that rate. I then put a makeshift 4 position 120v receptacle on the side of the gen head and plugged in 4200 Watts and the voltage went down to 100v on that leg. The engine hardly even changed notes and the rack arm moved open about a 1/32 of an inch. I don't think the engine was even laboring at all.

Now to the questions.
  Do you think I need to spin the head faster?

  Do you think I made a valid test by only using 1 leg of the gen @ 120V and not both legs and spreading the 4220 Watt       
   load out on 2 separate recepticals/120V legs?

 With the feeble attempt at information I gave you, can you determine if I can lower my engine rpm (10hp@ 3600/9HP@3000RPM) while increasing my Gen head rpm if needed? Ratio/sprocket changes are not a problem just expensive.

1.899 to 1    gen rpm 1800   engine RPM  3402
                               1,900                      3,591

1.759  to 1    gen rpm 1,800     eng RPM   3,166
                                1,900                      3,342

1.691 to 1    Gen rpm 1,800     eng RPM   3,042
                                1,900                      3,211

With the info above, if I run the Gen head at a projected target speed of 1850 rpm to attain my loaded voltage, will I have enough horsepower to get the rated 8KW with the ratios I have given you?
The engineer at Gates thinks I should be able to run it at the 1.691 ratio and still have 1.5 to 2.0 HP in reserve. What do you think? He had never been asked this type of generator drive system question before and was only venturing a guess.
He also said that the sprocket system I have has an extremely low parasitic HP draw on the engine.

Thank you in advance for any assistance you may be able to give me, it will be much appreciated!!

Bluecometk