Installing Onan generator in a Fifth Wheel
Well, we had an offer we couldn't refuse on our Class A and sold it! We discovered we absolutely LOVE RVing so now, we have moved into a Fifth Wheel (first time)for the additional room, etc. We fell...
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I would disagree that running it 1/2 hour a month is critical, and would argue it is not even necessary. I run mine in the summer when it is needed, nothing more. It sits 8 months a year in the winter. I only change the oil every other year. It is going on its 11th year, and it runs like a top.
These aren't big Detroit powered fire pumps - they are just small engines like your lawnmower that also sits all winter.
Some of these self imposed maintenance requirements make this work rather than fun
Ant, you are mostly preaching to the choir. If I exercised or fogged all my stuff out there in the Barn, to include the two gennies, I would have to have a spread sheet to keep up with it. I would bet anybody one of my social security checks that I could go out in the barn, gas up, and run both of the gennies. One of them is kind of a drug addict so it does appreciate a shot of carb cleaner in the intake. :W Between running up the gennies and doing wheel bearings and blowing out lines and whatever else is required, it seems to me that the brewsky time would really take a hit.
But I firmly bekieve that one has to do what makes them comfortable.
These aren't big Detroit powered fire pumps - they are just small engines like your lawnmower that also sits all winter.
Some of these self imposed maintenance requirements make this work rather than fun
Ant, you are mostly preaching to the choir. If I exercised or fogged all my stuff out there in the Barn, to include the two gennies, I would have to have a spread sheet to keep up with it. I would bet anybody one of my social security checks that I could go out in the barn, gas up, and run both of the gennies. One of them is kind of a drug addict so it does appreciate a shot of carb cleaner in the intake. :W Between running up the gennies and doing wheel bearings and blowing out lines and whatever else is required, it seems to me that the brewsky time would really take a hit.
But I firmly bekieve that one has to do what makes them comfortable.
