Just 3 months ago I changed the complete carburetor (brand New Generic Carburetor) and it worked great. Two months ago I started it to exercise it and it ran great. Yesterday I tried to start it and it WOULD NOT start... Clicks and that is it. When I prime (Bottom) it you can hear the pump work, when I push start it just clicks..does not even try to start/crank.. :(Any Ideas?

Sounds like a low/dead starting battery to me. I would start trouble shooting with the battery and work outward.Dan

dapperdan wrote:Sounds like a low/dead starting battery to me. I would start trouble shooting with the battery and work outward.This. Just like any other electric start engine.AND....while you are exercising it, you should check to be sure that the batteries are charging. It needs to run long enough to get HOT and recharge the batteries. I do mine about once a month and run it with the A/C for a load about 20 minutes.

The 'click' 'click' usually means battery not up enough to crank it. If it is 12VDC jump it with the truck battery cable and get it started again... Then using a multimeter find out about how you need to keep the battery charged up when sitting for a long time... Add a trickle charge from some source. Even one of those low wattage solar things might work out for you. I have a 9 WATT small panel sitting in my truck windshield area. I wish it had more watts like maybe 12-15WATTs because my truck has too many parasitic drains. Your generator probably doesn't have much parasitic drains...Roy Ken

BATTERY I will check that all the lights worked inside so I figured all was good and the battery is full... I will pull out the millimeter and check. Thanks.

Look at the brite side of it all, at least its not the carbuator all over again !And as you should know, your problem now is about as easy to figure out as any.

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RoyB
Explorer II
Nov 09, 2015
The 'click' 'click' usually means battery not up enough to crank it. If it is 12VDC jump it with the truck battery cable and get it started again... Then using a multimeter find out about how you need to keep the battery charged up when sitting for a long time... Add a trickle charge from some source. Even one of those low wattage solar things might work out for you. I have a 9 WATT small panel sitting in my truck windshield area. I wish it had more watts like maybe 12-15WATTs because my truck has too many parasitic drains. Your generator probably doesn't have much parasitic drains...

Roy Ken
Sam_Spade
Explorer
Nov 09, 2015
dapperdan wrote:
Sounds like a low/dead starting battery to me. I would start trouble shooting with the battery and work outward.

This. Just like any other electric start engine.

AND....while you are exercising it, you should check to be sure that the batteries are charging. It needs to run long enough to get HOT and recharge the batteries. I do mine about once a month and run it with the A/C for a load about 20 minutes.
dapperdan
Explorer
Nov 09, 2015
Sounds like a low/dead starting battery to me. I would start trouble shooting with the battery and work outward.

Dan

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