3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

VicT wrote:
Help I need some advice here..

This is where I need the help. In 1. above I talked about oil. I cleaned up the whole unit including oil inside the air filter (yes more than an Air filter should have) and I wiped down the whole unit and it literally was covered in nice clean new oil. As if it had been on a spit and someone had basted it. Added the appropriate amount of new oil about .4 of a liter. This did not overfill it. Then when I started the engine (started easily) the warmer the engine got the more blue smoke I got. I let it run for a total of about 25 minutes and the smoke was so bad I decided I would have to take it out to the country to burn off the oil because I was concerned for my neighbors. The smoke was definitely coming from the exhaust. Do I have a dude here or will it burn clean after a few hours of running. Thanks for any advice I can get.

VicT, Don't give up hope yet...
Just a wild guess on my part, but if the whole thing was soaked in oil, then there could well be oil in the muffler. When it heats up, you have the same basic system the military uses to generate smokescreens!

First drain any fuel from the gas tank, it may have oil in it. If the unit was soaked in oil, it could be that oil got into the fuel tank, and is now mixed with the fuel. Draining it will remove any oil from the gas tank.

I would invest in a gallon of fuel and run the unit for an hour or two. If the engine runs smoothly, then the oil is probably not entering the cylinder, or the plug will foul and the engine will run rough.

If the oil is entering from the crankcase, it will run low and the low oil sensor will shut the unit off.

If the smoke goes away, it was probably in the exhaust system.

I have 2 ELM3000 units, and both work great. Only mod I did was to install higher quality receptacles.

Good luck,

Cheers!