3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
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Mr. Tommy wrote:
Yeah, I'm not impressed with how you're supposed to add oil. It's easy to overfill, and the 'dipstick' is at such a horizontal angle that one side reads full and the other darned near empty.
We can blame this on Honda! They were the original designers of the system - the Chinese generator manufacturers have built their engines around the design of the original Honda GX-200.
While overfilling is possible, if you leave the cap off a minute or two after adding oil any excess will gradually come back out the fill hole. I usually do this on all of my one lungers (Briggs, Honda, etc.) when I fill or change oil.
Incidentally, IMHO the dipstick is pretty much useless as a fill level device. My long term understanding is to add oil until it is level with the fill port, not at some mark on a plastic stick. I've used my "little finger" as a dipstick for at least 50 years. I crook my finger and stick it in the oil fill hole, if I don't get oil on the tip of my little finger by the time my first knuckle is even with the top of the fill hole, it is time to add oil! BTW, you can do this when the oil/engine is hot - but it doesn't feel too good.
