onan 40 watt emerald 1 not starting
I have the 4000w onan generator in my 1988 Ford e350 Tioga. It was running fine and the meter reports less than 32 hours of use, but it now cranks great but won't start up. I checked for spark on th...
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aintnothin wrote:
I've only had this for 2 years and used the generator quite a bit without any problems so I not think it is gunked up with bad gas, it isn't getting spark, so it has to be somewhere in the ignition system. I'm thinking more and more that possibly the plugs wires and or coil? This unit is under the coach/floor but don't know if it slides out or drops/swings out underneath? Hard for me to do because of my back. I seen in another post, same problem, that a member said to go with a Harley coil because of the cost?
The troubleshooter will tell you that the low oil switch may cause a no spark condition, see the top of page 3 of the troubleshooter to see if your model is one of these
