Hi everyone.
I came across this forum a little while ago and decided to join. I've had a long-time interest in single-cylinder diesels, and was looking on the internet for Lister stuff and found this forum.
Though I don't yet have a Lister, or the "oid", I do have a couple of diesel singles (see the sig). The Kubota EL300 came from a flashing arrow sign, the type used at highway construction sites. It has an car alternator attached to run the lights in the arrow. I also added a 120v, 1500w gen head from a military generator (well, it wasn't diesel!
) and use it sometimes.
The Onan seems to be bit of a rarity. I was given this for free, and it runs fine (too good of a deal to pass up). It was a frame-mounted compressor for a small reefer back in the late 70's. Onan themselves can't tell me much about it. Internet searching brings up little. I plan on mounting it and adding a OLD Fairbanks-Morse 3kw gen head that was separated from another old genset, after adding a shaft and pulley to it (also a freebie).
The GMC Sonoma - well, I wanted a small diesel truck and not only are they hard to find, but when you do find one, they are either rusted to death, or too expen$ive. So I found a rusted out diesel S10, robbed the motor/transmission out of it and yanked the 4.3 gasser w/auto out of the Sonoma, and did the swap. 4 years ago.
Sorry for the long-winded start, I just thought a little history is better than knowing nothing.