Posted by NCWayne on September 17, 2012 at 19:27:09 from (69.40.232.132):
In Reply to: Lister generator? posted by greg1959 on September 17, 2012 at 17:42:58:
I've got a 2 cylinder Lister Petter set up with an 8 KW generator set up as a standby generator for my house. It sets 99% of the time but as long as the battery is hot it has never failed to start for me no matter how cold. All I do is hit the decompression levers, get her spinning, and knock them back. It it's really cold it also has two ports that allow a bit of ether, etc to be shot into the intake, but I've never had to use them. I once ran it for over a week, after an ice storm, and averaged about 4 gallons of fuel every 24 hours.
That said, as others have stated previously, the generator attached to your's is probably shot, but the engines are built like tanks and with a bit of work will probably live again and run for a long time with a little TLC.
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