This is going to be awesome to follow. Really looking forward to more!

It is a pleasure to watch Mike work on anything, he is indeed a real mechanic. I am lucky to have a Mechanic Mike to work on my stuff, there are so few of them around.

Good one Roadie! I use an Onan (1986 vintage) for my house back up. Tough, reliable and quiet! Carry on! Zippy~

Awesome new project! I'm looking forward to watching its progress. Knowing how meticulous you guys are that thing will be better then new...

I like the air cooled backup generator sets. Back in the day we worked on some Deutz powered units and they were very simple, rugged and reliable. I have seen a large supermarket with a water cooled unit as a standby, which is hardly used.

"determine what kinda mess we got ourselves into" hahaha, that kinda mentality is why I love watching your vids roadking. Keep up the good work guys! Loving the watercooled project too by the way :)

That's a worth while project. Great work so far.

A mix of older and younger guys gathering in a garage to get their hands dirty, learn and fix engines is very cool. I have not seen another channel that has the mix you guys have. Mike, LIttle Dirt Bike and Racer will long remember the evenings tinkering in the garage long after Road King and Daddy Dirt Bike are gone. Right buddy? It sure beats video games and DVDs so keep it up guys and I am envious of the "fun" you all are having.

Aw, that old carb just needs a little brazing! ;) Ooh, mice did a number on those old contactors, eh? Oh man, that plug was great! XD

Yay restoration project! What a steal for $80!

Onan jb/jc series. Good stuff , great little 1800 rpm air cooled 4 cyl....we have one for standby at work. Being that working on generators puts food on the table for me, this is great!

Mike is fearless. That thing is huge, probably big enough to run your whole house (and a neighbor or two as well!) You can't beat the price, that's for sure.

Looks like fun. When Mike pulled off the intake I thought those were Volkswagen heads and cylinders lol

The way that ( number 3 or 2 ) spark plug came out reminded me of the old Lodge Spark Plugs. Anyway, you have another good project going here ROADKING, this one can (pretty well ) power your home in case of a power outage. Good stuff!

Love your work

Man that is really sweet!

Nice find and cheap for $80. Will be a nice home standby generator.

I have seen fords rot there plugs out. especially plow trucks. most change there plugs often. because they rot. cool project. much to learn on this one 😀👍

Yessss another project to follow!

Nice change of pace kind of alternate project. It'll be the underdog we all hope to see back in action out at the RoadKing International Headquarters there.

Had one of those ONAN's at the plant I retired from . . . auto start (power loss). You could hardly hear it run. Good luck with it! ;) Rog

...nice to see some one else cleans up as they go...nice job guys....

She's a green lass & a real sweetheart.

I think it would be sweet to see modern electronics on that old generator.

nice got a good deal on that guy! pretty cool

Nice and clean on the inside, should be a good engine. Onan's are the best. At 15,000 watt with a 4 cylinder engine, I would be willing to bet it runs at 1800 rpm, and will be easy on fuel and quite... as most Onan's are. The generator at my dad's house has a big old Wisconsin heavy duty air cooled cast iron engine that runs at 1800 rpm. It's super quite, and runs about five hours per gallon of gas.

roadking you got the right guy on it.Mike will get it going

$80.00 ???? Holy crap son! Thats a huge deal! A 15k generator will power a couple of houses, you'll be a popular guy during the zombie apocalypse!

This is an ambitious one.

Pretty cool, I have not seen a spark plug separate like that either.

I had three of eight spark plugs do the same thing on my old truck when I got it. Some heat with an easy out and it wasn't so bad.

very nice generator.

That is a big one !!!...Somebody needs to send you guys a battery powered impact driver ....I rarely use a ratchet on small bolts since I got my HF 1/4 impact/driver

Love that Kroil!

This will be a stroll in the park for you guys. I bet you would have figured out a way to braze that carburetor back or something. I imagine that this will be a nice relaxing project for you guys I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys do with it.

Good stuff buddy.

I have one of these with the diesel engine. Old military unit and it will power my house and the neighbors house at 1800 rpm. There are really heavy duty units.

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15kW - Good for 65-Amps @ 230v, or 130-Amps @ 115v. I would so love to do one of these. I will be watching this series!!!!!

Good Deal,on that Find!!

Where did you find parts for this? I recently got one and need some parts. Any help would be appreciated.

That control box looked like the cylinder of our eclipse when we got it!

I have a fantasy of building an electric t-bucket and was wondering if a Harley style V-twin would have the power and be smooth enough to power the backup generator?

that is a pretty big one the camper ive been looking at has a onan built into it

great deal,i wouldve bought it at that price. i won a box of small engine parts,alot of briggs and stratton and champion plugs for 10 dollars. the place was a swamp from all the rain,people were overpaying for stuff and i left at 12.30. auction didnt end until 5.30......

Onan the Arbarian, that is it's name... :P And 15Kw? Damn, you could power your street with that... :P

Too damn funny, just the other day I was watching someone getting an old engine running again and HE busted off a couple of spark plugs just like that! I remember thinking "Never seen THAT before" Now I have twice in a week!

$80?!? wow, that was a steal! I wish I had an auction like that near me lol. Where are you going to get your parts from? I've got a 4.0kw in my RV I need parts for and haven't really found any good parts places for these ☺

Roadking, if you keep teasing Daddy Dirtbike he may smack you with that breaker bar...lol...

Open sandals ? Nice !

With all the generators for sale out there can you have Mike give a small tutorial on inverter or conventional generators during one of the Onan Generator Restoration video series? I live in the country and have a transfer switch in the meter box that is provided by the rural electric cooperative. I have a 7000 watt generator but would like to have something larger like this one but is it going to provide the same clean or dirty power as my REC provider does? EDIT: I am worried about all the electronic circuit boards that are in moderern appliances these days. Thanks 1CN

Ford Triton motors like to break spark plugs off like that. The last one that did it to me was only 10 years old, not 40. :P

Great price! :) Jack

Watching! Finish the water cooled brigs first though.

He has never seen a spark plug do that then he has never pulled a spark plug out of a Ford 5.4L Triton engine. lol

I have a air cooled diesel onan generator about the same age. It uses the generator as a starter instead of a regular external starter.

Nice new project buddy ! One thing though, i'm pretty sure it is 15Kw (15000W), not 15000Kw...

A company called Flight Systems reworks the control boards for the JC's and the starter can sometimes be found at a local parts house by looking for something like a 1946 Studebaker.

he looks great for his age

Mike is going to power his whole street with his CAT lump and generator, you're just keeping it personal lol. Will that be enough to power a house if there's a blackout? 1,2,4,3 is the firing order used on earlier ford 4 cylinder car engines, I never did understand why there was 2 different firing orders with different makes of 4 cylinder engines.

What is the purpose of the steel line in the top of the valve cover. Can see it at 13:50 when Mike takes off the first valver cover.

$80 damn thats a awesome deal.

where can I get one of those. at a price like that?

Hey RK, I know you always have lots of irons in the fire, but I'm anxious to see the progress on this Onan genny - what's the latest on it?

Hi class chipmunk,no just a Southern one ...lol

How far do you plan on taking it with this generator?

donde consigo diagramas para la conexión de la tarjeta miro una y esta un desastre, quisiera ponerla a funcionar

You should call Mike "Lil Propane" lol

who needs solar panels and windmills when you have trifuel genny?

yay yay😎

15 KW, will run 3+ electric water heaters, impressive.

INSIDE OF THAT THING LOOKS GOOD FOR ITS AGE

Is Mike the same guy from “SmallEngineMechanic”?

I had that happen to me with the plug I used a triple square bit to get it out

Roadking, where are y'all located? Wanna fix up an Onan gasoline powered welder?

805roadking what is the auction site you use or go-to ?

aw man there always has to be one at every party

Great start to the project - oh my, the mouse nest looked gross!

15000kw? isnt that a bit much?

you can power the Neighborhood with that. Oh Boy

i wish i was there to buy it, i really want one

Do you want to sell the gasoline carb? I need one for my gen.

Seriously, where did Mike get all the knowledge he's a pretty young dude.

is it a slow speed generator 1800 Rpm or a high speed 3600 rpm?

15kW??? are you guys planning to go off-grid in a non-environmental friendly way? :D

That is going to take some Epoxy!

so just out of curiosity roadking ,, this is an onan genset i can tell just by the color ,but what model is this ,, i have never seen an onan genset with a 4 cylinder engine like this one ,,if i didn't know better i'd almost say that looked just like a Lister engine that's a neat old generator set I've got several old onan units ,, even a 2 cylinder diesel Onan from the early 50s ,,and a 75KW onan genset with a ford 300-6 engine, just a week ago i came across a rather new Onan/Cummins generator set , I gave the guy $250 for it complete was told it wouldn't run cause the engine was junk,wouldn't crank ,, ,,turns out after some checking and a quick inspection the reason it was removed from service and replaced is it has a stuck fuel injector ,leaked a cylinder full of fuel causing a ( Hydro Lock) ,,someone spent $20,000 to replace this generator which has 600 hours on the meter ,and all that's wrong is a $99 fuel injector ,,it's a 125KW standby diesel genset ,,it's currently mounted on a utility trailer with a 100 gallon fuel tank ,,made in 1998 it's powered by a 5.9 liter cummins turbo diesel ,, the exact same cummins used in dodge trucks ,, I've seen these used as irrigation power units for center pivot irrigation systems and have 10,000 hours on them still in service,,no clue what caused an injector to fail with so few hours ,, but most likely caused by crappy contaminated fuel

What make is the engine? When you get it going what is the plan for it's use?

back up shop power for when the power goses out

So, you made Briggs into a 4 cylinder, make this 4 cylinder into 1!

Oh yeah, that's a generator. Nobody sleeping tonight.

Mike the knife is his name because he is cutting​ right in

I just bought on like yours. Mine is 12.5K I think.

A new project after the water cooled Briggs?????? That will run the house and shop!!! Those little critters (mice) will get into anything. There is nothing easy about an easyout. This is the last video i watch on this computer. I am setting up a new one I7 16 gigaholes RAM and 2 titrobots hard drive. haha I should be able to do Editing like crazy!!!

It would be 15K times more awesome if it was a different color.... :)

you have yourself a he'll of a generator if you get it running you can't by stuff like that anymore

Mike needs a proper nickname if he is to run this project.

put a turbo on it did he say carburator ? so it's older than injectors

Where is Belair ???

Got any updates on this?