Onan Generator Life
OK, maybe a silly question - but - I've got a 2006 National SeaBreeze LX with a 5500 Onan. It has about 490 hours on it. I've owned the MH for about 6 months, and I find I'm using the genny even whe...
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Dutch_12078 wrote:kmb1966 wrote:
My Onan Gold Marquis 7000 was serviced perfectly every time on schedule mostly by Onan dealers (oil, filter, airfilter, fuel filter, adjustments, exercised every 2 weeks for 30 minutes). Yet constantly had problems with it. New heads, broken rocker arms, intake manifold, carbuerator problems, fuel pump problems. Finally gave up at 750 hours and bought a new one. Wasn't gonna put another $1500 into that serial number. Replaced it with Onan 5500 hoping to have better success this one. perhaps just a lemon.
Was your Marquis Gold a newer HGJ 2880 RPM series, or the older NHM 1800 RPM series. The lower RPM NHM's have generally been pretty bullet proof...
Motorhome was a 2001, so I'm not for sure. I think my serial number started with HGJ. It didn't start with NHM.
