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A few things could cause this. Over filled with oil is the easiest to fix. See in the breather is supposed to have an open cell foam oil separator in it, the foam may have dissolved. Or the rings could be worn allowing combustion pressure into the crankcase.

Unless it is 100% air tight, the pipe will breathe a little bit and pull humid air in which condenses. It's almost impossible to make a pipe with a cable pass through 100% sealed.

Unless the pipe has a constant dried air purge air flow, it eventually will fill with water from condensed moisture in the air. For this reason you still need direct bury rated coax when running it in buried pipes.

https://www.davisrf.com/buryflex.php This is buried in my yard for the last 2 years. Running up to 1.2kw through it on all bands from 17 to 10 feeding my IMAX 2000.

Go for it! It's great to have more band options and the education from the study materials is worth it if you don't just memorize the questions.

This is why I have a ground field of 16 ground rods, lots of 4ga solid wire, and all antennas are DC grounded with lightning arrestors at the entry point. I consulted an electrical engineer before putting my station together, his words were, "you can't tell lightning where not to go, but you...

That's the one!

The comet SRO 2x4 antenna covers the GMRS and MURS bands. I run a couple of them and they perform well.

Seriously? Good riddance if true.

To each their own. Radio is radio, I enjoy all the frequencies I have access to, from 160 meters through GMRS. If you couldn't pass the Amateur radio test, there are plenty of study resources available to help.

It seems like the bands are completely shut off today.

I've been calling for the last 10 minutes and there's nothing.

20 amps @ 240 volts = 400 amps @ 12 volts, this doesn't account for power supply loses. You might try finding someone local to help you get this set up so it doesn't cost you a pile of money in the long run.

The CME and resulting G4 solar storm is the reason all HF bands were dead the last couple of days.

I called a few times at 2000 CDT and the only reply I got was an AM station ranting about LSB guys.

I'll try calling a few times with everything turned on and see if I can at least be heard.

I"m calling on 16LSB right now. The band seems really dead at the moment.

That would be the end of me buying carl built amps...

I have been calling frequently for the last 10 minutes and haven't heard a peep. The rest of the scope is completely devoid of signals also, so likely not a good propagation day. Edit: Just got 404, good audio made the QSO happen in VERY marginal conditions. Edit 2: Noisy and highly variable...

Both of mine took less than 4 weeks.