This small diesel engine is not ready for real world use out of the box. It needs a full teardown, inspection, and proper reassembly as well as a couple of easy mods to make it work worthy. Without prepping I would be surprised to get 100hrs out of one because of poor assembly throughout.

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I am putting this series together in a simple detailed fashion hopefully even an inexperienced mechanic can prep one of these simple engines for daily use.

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