3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

VicT wrote:
Thanks for all the advice on my oil problem. I will let you know as I progress through this and answer some of your points:

3. Going back to my original posting the Oil cap/dipstick was tightened, allowing oil to come out during transport if it was not standing up correctly. I believe the oil drained out and every time the box was moved it ended up running all over the outside of the engine. There seemed to be a fair amount in the air cleaner. How could it have gotten inside there. Is it possible if the unit sat upside down for a long period of time that oil could have saturated through the cylinder into both the airbox and the muffler.
4. I do think that there is oil in the muffler as it is when the muffler gets hot then the smoke gets real bad.

I think this unit will be ok and I plan to run it till the smoking stops on Wednesday evening. Or I could run it here and tell my neighbors I bought a fancy new misquito fogger.

The oil can definately get into the air cleaner and muffler through the cylinder if the valves are both partially open and the unit is upset. Do they ship these units with oil in them? All the ones that I've seen were dry and the customer had to fill it. My point is that shipping with the oil filled leads to just the problems that you are having.

Try running the unit without the air filter so that there is unrestricted air flow. Running it for a short time won't hurt it. The foam element is supposed to be saturated in oil but too much will result in excessive smoking, squeeze as much oil out of the foam as possible before reinstalling.

Oil in the muffler shouldn't be too hard to correct either. They are easy to remove and you can tilt it and work it around to drain any oil out of it. Then pour in acetone to rinse out the rest of the oil and let the muffler sit overnight to let all of the acetone evaporate before reinstlling the muffler or running the generator.

This should clear up your smoke problem but that may not be the end of it. Running the generator with this much oil available in the cylinder can prevent the piston rings from seating resulting in low compression, blowby, and oil burning (just what you need right now). So it's important to get this problem under control ASAP!!! When you get the generator to run clean then place it under the most lod it will handle and run the heck out of it to seat the rings.

Hopefully you won't have any more trouble with it.

Capt Ron