More Onan 2.8KW questions - carburetor
Hi folks. Just got back from one of Uncle's mandated trips to lovely Kuwait, and so of course the '01 Dodge Roadtrek has been sitting idle, inexpertly stored by my buddy (for free, mind). The fridge...
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Motorcycles are moving toward fuel injection, small engines like those in gensets and powers have not yet been pushed there by EPA or even CARB regulations. It's not just Onan, nobody satisfying CARB can supply anything other than a tamper-proof replacement carb for a small engine.
Onan could probably move to port FI on thes small engines, get past the problem of fuel gumming up tiny perts and jets, but would the additional cost also cost market postition? Would FI really solve the "unused engine" problem, on just make fuel system maintenance even more expensive.
Reality is, right now, whether it is your genset, chainsaw, mower, ony brand, when you let them set for months unused with todays gasoline fuels, good chance that they are going to gum up. Real problem with onboard gensets, compared to some of these other small gasoline engines, is that most of the service cost will be labor to remove and replace the genset.
One advantage, maybe only advantage, of LPG fueled gensets is that the fuel does not gum up the carb.
Onan could probably move to port FI on thes small engines, get past the problem of fuel gumming up tiny perts and jets, but would the additional cost also cost market postition? Would FI really solve the "unused engine" problem, on just make fuel system maintenance even more expensive.
Reality is, right now, whether it is your genset, chainsaw, mower, ony brand, when you let them set for months unused with todays gasoline fuels, good chance that they are going to gum up. Real problem with onboard gensets, compared to some of these other small gasoline engines, is that most of the service cost will be labor to remove and replace the genset.
One advantage, maybe only advantage, of LPG fueled gensets is that the fuel does not gum up the carb.
