1988 Big 40G for sale.

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I have a 1988 Miller Big 40 Gas for sale.  I am selling it as a PARTS machine.  Last winter we had an over-night ice storm before I went to fire it up.  Something in the governer housing froze up.  The engine started and took off.  It was turning probably 3,000 rpms when I heard a back fire.  I turned it off.  Looked at the governor housing and saw oil oozing from it and in the oil was metal shavings.  So something oviously gernaded.  I was never a true fan of this engine when I bought it.  It had a rear seal leak that I could never fix.  I also felt like it was under powered- it has the Continental 3 cylinder engine.  Probably as a new engine it worked great but not after 20 years of poor maintanance.  I know the generator works well.  Previous owner said it never air-arced and I never did any air-arcing with it in the 2 and a half years I owned it.  It does come mounted on a two wheeled trailer.  Welder is located in Northern Virginia.  If interested contact me. [email protected].
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Reply:Dualie, Yes. This is a constant current welder.  It does not have a polarity switch.  It has 3 KW of auxillery power.  It does have a 5 pin remote recepticle.  Other than that its plain jane Big 40 welder.  I even had to install a hour meter.  When the engine blew, I was in the middle of a pipe job.  It probably made me around $30,000.  I paid $1,600 for it in July 2006.  Like I mentioned earlier, it is mounted on a trailer.  The trailer has two new tires on it.  The trailer has a pintle hook set up.
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