Don't run cheap oil in these mate, they need a high zinc diesel oil. Do the first oil change at about half an hour and again at an hour to make sure any swarf is gone from the crankcase. I've used JB Weld to attach a small magnet to the drain plugs on all my small diesels (genset, pump, log splitter and pressure washer).

Make sure to remove the shaft key before starting with no pully/clutch/etc. You'll never find it once it enters low-earth orbit.

Very Cool! Should be an EMP proof power source.

I don't know who you are or where you are from but I appreciate you posting this because this is every single one of us out there not normally buttering it up for the camera. kudos to you brother and keep moving forward.

I could not get a new one of these started no matter what I did but your injector bleed procedure solved the problem. A few pulls after that bleed, and it started right up. I've not heard anyone talk about that before. Great information! Thanks!

2.2kw is 2200watts/750=2.9HP. 750 is not the correct factor of 768watts to HP but is considered a good derating. I have a larger version of this engine in a 6.5kw generator. The correct start proceedure is to slowly pull the rope until you are on a compression stroke. You will feel it and possibly hear the injector. Push the compression release lever down. Pull the rope one good time. It should fire right up. The valve lash needs to be adjusted from the factory. Look in the manual for the lash spec. I would adjust it every oil change for the 1st few oil changes. Change the oil often and use a diesel rated oil. Shell rotella or delo ect. I have had good luck replacing pull starter ropes with 7/64in amsteel blue rope. It is very hard to cut and lasts forever.

If you set the decompression and pull the rope the decompression mechanism will probably reset at the right moment. Seen one with a similar setup on a larger engine that runs a lighted traffic work zone sign. Mounted helps to LOL. Looking forward to what you decide to do with it.

You can compensate for the lower RPM by setting it up to run at 1800 rpm. Diesels have more low end torque than similar size gas engines so it should pull just fine at that speed. I was around bigger gensets running off a locomotive sized engine that redlined around 1100 rpm so the genset ran at 900 to make 60hz.

If you do a follow up bolt it to the box part or a pair of 2x4 it will significantly make this more enjoyable and easier on you.

The biggest guy holds it between his legs and folds himself over onto the motor gripping it tightly with all four limbs. The second guy holds that guy in a firm headlock, and the third guy pulls the starter cable. Thats how we always do it, it works great.

I don't know what's funnier, trying to start it in the grass, or pointing the exhaust smoke towards you're house XD

That engine would probably have been much easier to start if it had been bolted to a solid base so you wouldn't have had to try to keep it standing as you were pulling on the start cord. Also if the shaft is to big it would probably be much easier to enlarge the hole in whatever pulley or sprocket you want to use since that shaft is likely a hardened steel and would be a SOB to grind down AND keep it round in the process.

Neat project. Looking forward to the follow-up! 👍😊

I You dont suck dude. You are at least doing something. More than any critic has likely even tried to do. Also, If using an alternator, dont be conerned about any particular RPM, it'll adjust the field current to maintain your set voltage, and you'll be making DC current, not AC, so freqency is not much of a factor. Change oil after first hour and then in five hrs again and no more than 30 hrs between oil changez after that. Magnet was a good recommendation. Consider directly connecting alternator to the shaft, simpler maybe an no bely to contend with, maybe an old U joint might help. Hang in there, I'm proud of you and your efforts. Take care, 73

Oh yeah, starting them especially for the first time is different. I just about broke my finger the first time where it kicked back so hard so you did better than I did lol. I also pulled the pull start handle off just like you did, seemed the knot wasn't big enough. Once you get the hang of it though, these are neat engines and run surprisingly well considering the price. Great vid!

Thanks for the nice overview. Check the fuel filter, it looks like it’s installed backwards.

I've had one of these, black colored tank out of a chinese rammer. They're really good. Always mount engine on your work table its much safer that way. The way to start is to put the decompression lever down and pull. It goes off automatically and then in the next pull do the same. If you forget to put lever down you'll mess up the recoil pretty easily.

OH! I just recognized that what you were doing with that fuel line is just like what I was taught that I had to do if I was stupid and ran out of fuel in my truck! Yep, I'd have to crack maybe half of those in the 6-cyl. engine in order to get it flowing again, and yep, that meant watching for fuel to spurt out! Haha, it's not self-priming just like my 2001 truck engine wasn't! Oh my heck, this is more similar than I first suspected!

Dude, get some real estate and a worthy sized garage, or barn, as your ambition/ingenuity/creativity well deserve the space to operate in. Hats-off to your idea(s) and willingness to experiment and share all that with us. Eagerly awaiting some more. Be well.

First thing I would do is take the pull start off. Then I would subsequently crank it with an electric drill. My back hurts watching these repeated start attempts. Thank you Mr. Farm!

Mate, I once bought a Chinese manufactured Edge Trimmer driven by a Petrol engine. It worked four times. It was a cow of a thing to get started. The pull chord was on the wrong side to start with. No matter how I pulled that starter Chord, the damn thing would not start. I eventually used a starting aid called *_"START YOU BASTARD"_* and got the thing running but; after the fourth tine I used it, it became harder and harder to start. I eventually took it down the rubbish tip. I may as well have taken my $200.00 down to the tip and left it there. Cheers mate!

I run cheap oil for break-in, then Shell Rotella T6 (synthetic) in everything I own ... gas ⛽️ or ⛽️ DIESEL well over 25 yrs. (also safe for wet clutch) I will be watching what you do with that little mill

Looks like the fuel filter is installed bass-akwards.

That's a project garage! Welder, compressor, hopefully many worthwhile projects come from this garage, good luck!

the propper way to start up those small diesel engines is following: 1. Put the trottle to about half or 2/3 gas position 2. Pull the rope slowly until you get stopped by the compression stroke 3.NOW press the decompression lever (you dont have to hold it, its going to hold and release by its selfe) 4.now pull hardly on the rope. the engine sould start imidiatly with a nice black cloud out of the exhauspipe :)

Excited to see where you go with this thing!

Cool video. But I was most impressed / surprised to see the composite decking truck bed. Great idea!

I bought something similar. Baumr-AG, 7hp, rated at 3600 rpm. On a side note, small engines in Australia are nearly all rated in hp, whilst we use kW for car engines, and back to hp for prime movers. I only just realised, so most people here have some idea of both. The conversion is roughly 1hp = 3/4 kW.

Instead of grinding output shaft to fit, just buy a (chinese) metric pulley.. Also, if you run used oil, I'd suggest (besides obviously filtering really well) adding some ATF to the oil ( 1 quart to 5 gallons?), it will add some good additives to help lubricate injectors/ pump etc ;)

Actually, you did great, Mister! Is this video was not only entertaining but informative great job!

A good unit to keep in the trunk of your Tesla, Rivian, Mach 1, etc. for when the battery dies on the road!,

You did a good job starting that motor without it attached to anything!

Good video, no worries on the fall man... 😆 we all saw you fall, but we also saw you get back up and thats what counts. looking forward to the next video on this. You can make diesel from plastic as well.

the way i have started these kind of diesel engines was to turn it over to the compression point, then press down the lever making sure its stuck in the down position, then you pull the cord to start with your hand off the decompression lever.

great unboxing! loved every moment.

I found running some Walmart 2 stroke oil helps the injection system in these engines since the diesel nowadays isn't as good as it used to be. Like 111ML to 5L diesel and a little ctane booster they run so smooth and start much easier. Also a good idea to change the oil after the first hour run time to get anything out of the engine from the break in process.

I switched to paracord from Home Depot for all pull starts . super cheap and high friction resistance, which makes it last for years

That's pretty cool! Glad to see someone build random projects

Why did you take it off the mounting board for initial start? Would have been quite a bit more stable.

Thanks for including the bloopers. Most YT channels would have deleted the tumble. Respect

As long you keep your expectations as low as possible its a great engine ; it runs!

This is an extremely useful engine if you have used fryer oil and can make biodiesel. Or, you could equip it with a fryer oil heater and run it straight. Beat Big Oily. Make em paranoid.

Amazing traction for a small channel, 500k views. I can understand and imagine your excitement haha well done

When you use an open ended spanner flip it when you get full lock and vice versa, they are designed so you can always get an extra 1/4 turn by doing so. (flip it so the angle of the open end has changed(you still use the open end)

When I was eight years old, I bolted my little Briggs & Stratton to a board and stood on the board. Used cooking oil will eventually ruin the pump and injector. I know a guy whose chicken-fueled diesel truck has been parked for years with a seized injection pump.

It's also not mounted to anything so pulling is gonna be hard.

New subscriber ty! I may try one. What's the rpm on the shaft?

It will work. I used a 1 cylinder yanmar pull start diesel and ran it off used oil just fine. I hooked it to different things, one being a generator

Good thing they put the fuel filter on in the right orientation 😂

You should’ve at least mounted it to a board so you could stand on the board to hold it in place while starting. It more than likely would’ve been a lot easier to start.

Used oil or black diesel like folks call it is real popular for stuff like that so it should do fine. That or used cooking oil too. Don't worry about that dip stick alot of those cheap small motors use them because they are cheap and plentiful and you can fill to the cap threads like any other motor like that. I had a mower with a gas motor like that and was using the stick and one day I accidentally read the manual and it said fill to the threads.

I see a lot of people over-complicating the start process. Pull to compression, push the lever down, LEAVE the lever and pull hard. Look forward to seeing the generator hooked up to it 👍

Thank you ! Love this little motor :)

It would be nice to see the RPM torque curve. I see there are lots of different brands all using the same casting with different pricing?

Wow, you have the nicest lawn in the neighborhood......

Sweet dude, exited to see how the project goes. Thanks for your hard work.

I cannot understand why you did not both down the engine on a solid table before starting the new engine? Thank you very much for sharing be safe, and safety is number one

Looking forward to see what you do with this, especially how well it runs on used oil. If it's underpowered, I'd love to see you find a (tiny) cheap used turbo for it and a cheap eBay heat exchanger for an intercooler.

well my HF chipper had a long dong 6.5 gas motor which had a 28mm shaft, the clutch exploded. and yep couldn't get one. so yep find a clutch. well just take a standard cent, clutch and drill out for shaft size. was concerned taking to much material out but i now have more hrs on my modded clutch that the stock one.

Why is the fuel filter on backwards?

When you spilled fuel I knew you had problems 😂

Thank you for buying this! I considered it, but have no use for one but I was curious to see how they are.

How about oil in the air filter? Looks like the oil bath type!

Great video! I want one!

Definitely keep us updated. At least with the used oil part. I live off grid and using one of these on used motor oil to charge my batteries would be amazing. I'd want an electric start, though🤣

Nice video. Thinking about getting one of those. Excellent idea trying to run it on cooking oil. FYI your lawn needs some attention....;)

My engine started first pull out of the box without fuel and oil because they tested it at the factory and the fuel system was primed.

3000 rpm engines are needed for generators in 50hz systems, where 3600 rpm is for 60Hz.

What do you use that generator for, and if there is a need for it? The toothed wheel that moves the machines and works with the dynamo is perhaps better, just to work without a fuel .

Loving the photoshop application photos on the amazon for this horizontal shaft motor. You really can't beat a horizontal shaft in a push mower configuration.

BTW the fuel filter is on backwards. Don’t reverse it after use. Replace it.

Now that the string is recoiled back in, take that off and use a 13/16 or 7/8 or what ever metric socket that fits the large nut and use a cordless drill to turn the engine over without having to use a pull cord.

Love the color

Remove the pull rope assembly, use a socket and drill to start the engine.

Cool video! Have a nice Christmas!

as always, i would be interested how long this chinese stuff really works. i mean, i have briggs&stratton engines that are 30-40years old and still run. we have the b&s from the time of its demise in the early 2000. and now we have loncin and this small diesel. do they run in 10-20 years? who knows?

Awesome! What will u use for your power generation? An alternator? Going to be cool!

Would replace the starter rope with sailboat halyard rope. 10 times better and saves constant grief.

I'll bet the smell resembles heaven just a little bit. Thanks!

My arm gave out, I removed the pull starter put a 21 mm socket on my Ryobi 18 volt impact driver, held compression button down until it got spinning and released button! Wa la it started right up. You can’t beat converting to an electric start

Those things run great just keep clean oil in them or hook up a oil pump and you can filter the oil

Nice video Mike. I would like a few of these engines, one for an old generator and one for my wood splitter. I hate gas as they are so tempermental. You can have a Diesel engine sit for a couple of years and it would start right up. Watching you work reminds me so much of myself. You're anxious to get it going, make a mess right off the bat with the fuel, starting it on the lawn with no base and the cord breaks. This is exactly what would happen to me :) For a $200 engine I would put oil in it I found lying around hehe.

did you ever think of bolting it down to something?

Mike's wife "Honey, what's that dead spot on the front lawn from"? Mike - "Neighbor's dog maybe".

Nice thing to test your nerves !

Rolling coal, go kart style! Love this.

Hi. What is the maximum RPM of this diesel engine ? MORE info : Salvage the pulleys, from a drill press. They usually have 2 - each with 5 various sizes, from about 4 inch down to 1.5 inches or so. Install this, on engine shaft ( old guy)

Very nice engine.

Nice front lawn, you must put a lot of work into it to make it look so nice.

Haha, how funny, you even said you wanted to see if you could get it to "roll come coal" just like we can detune a street engine (like the Cummins on my old truck) into doing!

I have a little pocketbike that's only 49cc but I want more power if I can get it to fit I can get a lot more power and should be more torque too hopefully

is that fuel filter on backwards?

Do you have a link or something to help us look it up?

Do they make these with a vertical shaft? I'd love to make one into a diesel push mower!

I have to buy one now If you can start it anyone can. The compression release is automatic, you don't have to start it like one of those Packnisen black oil engines.

what do you need it for?

Pretty cool that the fuel filter is on backwards 😅

would make a great little marine engine

Yeah, I would expect this engine to have a slower idle and power band, since diesels in road vehicles tend to also (maybe something about having more compression). When I had my diesel truck I noticed that its engine's RPMs would be roughly half of the speed of a similarly sized gasoline engine for sounding like it's at normal speed. Get revved up, sounds like it's time to upshift just by ear, but only spinning about half the speed of a comparable gasoline engine at similar audibly-judged RPMs. In other words, something about the frequency of it's "voice" would make it sound like it was going pretty fast even at about half the actual speed of a gasoline engine that sounds like it's going about that fast (as verified by both vehicles' tachometers).

Pulling the starter seems to require so much effort. I have 63cc 2t camping gen and that already is hard to pull the cord. Diesels require a lot of effort to overcome the pressure in the chamber with the injector.