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More details are shown. Grade-8 bolts hold the generator to the steel plate. Grade-5 fine thread bolts were used for the other fasteners. The fuel lines on the generator side of the truck barely fit through an existing hole in the frame once a piece of heat-shrink tubing was slipped over them. The lines are fixed n the hole with some RTV material, basically providing a 'grommet'. The #6 battery cables pass over the frame to the generator through a piece of loom. Some RTV squirted into the loom keeps it in place over the wires. Things stay in place very well, and additional rigidity was added bt fastening the fuel hoses to the loom where they cross. Flare fittings were used at this end of the lines, coupled to barb fittings with the hoses held on by clamps. A "Ford old-type" fuel filter was put inline with the generator fuel inlet before the fuel pump. On the battery side of the truck, the wires are protected by loom from the frame to the battery box. The drawings show some thoughts about how to protect the genset from spray, dirt, and general messiness. Most important is to prevent spray from the rear wheels from spraying the set in the rain. A panel on the front is also important to keep road debris off the set. The panel on the inboard side (under the truck) may not be necessary, this will be investigated. A reinforced outboard panel was made from a side of an electronics equipment rack and hung with two hinges. This will be made lockable. It can be opened when the genset is in use. Both the exhaust and the used cooling air are bown out this direction.
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