Servicing the genny
Haven't used the AUX gen-set in nearly a year, so today I decide to change the oil and filters, not a big job by its self but when you find the entire bottom of the generator mount tray corroded, it b...
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Trackrig wrote:n3eqf wrote:
The usual enemy of a gas generator is fuel - leaving a generator set unused with fuel in the tank (and fuel line and carb) for a long time will likely spell trouble. Old gasoline gums up everything with what resembles varnish.
The OP has a 7500 Onan Kabota 3 cylinder diesel.
Bill
Which by the way, diesels don't make the acids during the combustion cycle that the gas engines do. Thus the oil in a diesel only gets soft carbon particulate matter in the oil. this is why we can run longer on oil changes. Th oil I just dumped, looked as good as the day I put it in. filter same same. these little diesels simply don't have the corrosion problems the gas engines do.
