Mr Jenkins I can not add enough weight to what Joel said about the Cam Belt, so let me relate a story. We run 6 generators with this type of motor, all of them failed from 1050 hours-1370 hours due to

Ian You are welcome, no sense letting that dog bite everyone. If I remeber right, in the manual we had it mentioned this requirment in 1 line with no warnings, and yes its not really that hard just ne

Stephan, Ian et al In my expierience we noticed some lateral cracking in the surface rubber but nothing penetrating to the fabric plies. In failure the belts simply disintegrate and you are left with

Clean/replace all your fuel filters and let us know what happens. Diagnosis based on "started up and made power after sailing in rough seas" probably shook enough trash off the prefilter/filter media

wastegate regulates pressure, be careful or you will launch the head through the engine room hatch. Of course you can water or propane inject a diesel and as long as the head bolts hold up you can kee