Thought I killed my on board generator!
Which would have been tragic since it has now 9 whole hours on it and only been in my possession a week! Pulling maintenance on our new to us camper, I changed the genny oil and decided the 4 years o...
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I made a similar mistake on our 2000 Four Winds several years ago. It had run fine for a couple of years, but I just had to clean it. Yes, OCD… Mistake. It would run but all it would do is surge real bad.
The control board and electrics were fine, but I have no idea what I washed out of it to cause the issue. In the end, I twiddled with the governor until I got it to settle down. It ran fine after that.
The heck of it is, that generator still starts easier than the one on our 2016 motorhome.
Lesson learned, never wash your generator!
Like Gritdog, if there was a nice quiet inverter generator out there, they'd quickly replace all these 60 year old technology Onans.
The control board and electrics were fine, but I have no idea what I washed out of it to cause the issue. In the end, I twiddled with the governor until I got it to settle down. It ran fine after that.
The heck of it is, that generator still starts easier than the one on our 2016 motorhome.
Lesson learned, never wash your generator!
Like Gritdog, if there was a nice quiet inverter generator out there, they'd quickly replace all these 60 year old technology Onans.
