Onan Generator 5500 Gold Fuel Pum
$900 for a Onan 5500 Marques Gold generator fuel pump installed in a 2007 motorhome, is this reasonable? This is at a Cummins dealer/shop, they diagnosed the problem as well.
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DiskDoctr:
I'll check the shop manual tomorrow and confirm that limitation. The fuel pump I got from NAPA was totally identical to the original Onan unit except for the nounting bracket.
The way my generator is behaving, I strongly suspect the th fuel pump is over-powering the float. I had cardiac surgery just before Christmas 2011 and didn't get to the "every 6 weeks" running of the generator until about 3 months had passed. It hasn't run since.
The symptoms suggest gross over fuelling, and the pump never stops "clicking" as long as I'm depressing the "Prime" button. The original Onan pump stopped ticking after a few seconds.
We rarely use the generator, and it's a royal PITA to do this "run it every six weeks or so". I'd rather not have a generator than put up with that crap! I think the origianl owners weren't frequent generator users either, as it only had 48 hours on it in 8 years - probably all the regular "exercise".
I'll check the shop manual tomorrow and confirm that limitation. The fuel pump I got from NAPA was totally identical to the original Onan unit except for the nounting bracket.
The way my generator is behaving, I strongly suspect the th fuel pump is over-powering the float. I had cardiac surgery just before Christmas 2011 and didn't get to the "every 6 weeks" running of the generator until about 3 months had passed. It hasn't run since.
The symptoms suggest gross over fuelling, and the pump never stops "clicking" as long as I'm depressing the "Prime" button. The original Onan pump stopped ticking after a few seconds.
We rarely use the generator, and it's a royal PITA to do this "run it every six weeks or so". I'd rather not have a generator than put up with that crap! I think the origianl owners weren't frequent generator users either, as it only had 48 hours on it in 8 years - probably all the regular "exercise".
