GENERATOR ELECTRONIC GOVERNOR CONVERSION 884 Cubic Inch V8 Onan 140 WE

Every video I watch I feel that I have been in a vocational college class. Mike should be an instructor, he surly knows much more than some professors. Keep up the awesome work.👍🏻

Great to see someone tapping a hole correctly

I agree with some others that watching this guy is like being in a college classroom. An excellent teacher this man is.

I bet your neighbors love it when that beast starts up. Thanks!!!!

Considering the lack of fuel. I think it sounds pretty good. I had a good time watching the video. Thanks for posting it.

Quick question, you mentioned about how butterfly throttles aren’t particularly linear, and I totally get that.. but as I understand it’s the opposite of what you described - the first few degrees of rotation provides a drastic change both in the area of the opening that air can pass through and in engine speed, and as you approach wide open throttle each degree of rotation makes less difference to the area of the restriction. Old BMWs with mechanical cable operated throttles had a unique linkage that slowed down the throttle butterfly rotation just off idle and sped up as it approached WOT. Made the accelerator pedal more linear and the car less prone to lunge when you just barely touch the accelerator like a lot of Japanese cars are known for doing. Anyway, awesome to see the old girl getting modernized... the best kind of machine is one built with old iron and controlled by new(er) computers! 😎

You have a way of explaining processes that I can thoroughly comprehend compared to other youtubers that is precisely why I prefer your channel over the more inferior ones 🤘🏻. Not saying that their channels are dumb by any means but I can watch your videos once and understand exactly what’s going on compared to having to watch others 2 and sometimes 3 times just to get the same amount of information.

Loved having the opportunity to watch you make the conversion which was more involved than I imagined. Just as an FYI for others, 3/8"-24 thread has a pitch of about 0.042" so a 1/2 to 3/4 turn would create about 0.021" to 0.031" gap for the pickup.

I'm a mechanic on a Dutch tugboat, we use a similar setup on our 2 6 cilinder Scania diesels (a Governors America Corp system). Nice to see you explain the principals and how to set up the system, very educational.

Nice job! Thanks for the long detailed video. I would imagine (especially with these big machines) that for every hour of video, there are many hours of prep and editing. Makes me appreciate your efforts all the more. Great fab work on the governor stand

Mike if I were your neighbor I would be a big pain because I would be standing next to you trying to see everything , these are the most interesting videos seen. thank you for putting them on you tube

I've been looking forward to this since mentioned on the livestream

Love your style man. Top notch videos!

Love the older generator controls, you can retrofit them to almost anything. Great videos, very informative

Thanks Mike! I purchased an import electronic governor control (identical to your actuator and control) for my little Wisconsin 2-cyl, 18 hp with 2.3:1 twin belt drive to 5000W Northern head for a slow speed genset. The wiring and control adjustments were a bit intimidating due to the lack of documentation. Your vid provided a lot of clarity. Much appreciated!

I knew absolutely nothing about that carb before you explained it, after your lecture I feel like I understand it pretty well. well done thanks

I have worked on natural gas furnaces in an aluminum plant. We had 3 of the furnaces that had two twenty million BTU burners and two that were smaller that had about 12 million BTU burners. They were all mid 1960s technology when I worked there. We had a couple that had three five million BTU burners but no emergency generators. Our gas supply was huge, I think 12" high pressure natural gas lines. I helped install a few emergency generators, two were natural gas and all the rest were diesels but I never worked on them after they were installed. I really enjoy your work on these and your trouble shooting technique. I did rebuild a few ratio regulators on the big furnaces that did the same thing the unit you were showing worked except the air was force fed and the pressure from the induced air determined amount of gas. I am an electrician and never really liked working on huge gas furnaces, they really aren't something you can afford to make mistakes on.

Appreciate the review of the carb diaphragm operation.

You must have the kindest neighbors in the world!!

Hello from Australia, I am a retired mechanical engineer with almost 58 years in the heavy diesel industry such as trucks, earth moving machinery and locomotives. You have done a great job of changing from the mechanical governor to electronic and I have done quite a few of these myself including air throttles, however in my opinion the lever on the throttle shaft is at the incorrect angle E.G. it is leaning back to far almost over centre, the most important position is that the push/pull rod should be at 90 degrees to the lever at half stroke. In other words if the push/pull rod moves 60mm then the lever will be active 30mm each way of centre. Thank you, keep up the good work.