Fuel cutoff solenoid for Onan gensets?
For storage, I've wondered how useful it would be to have either a fuel petcock valve on the line, or if one wanted to get fancier, a solenoid activated fuel valve (so it could be turned on/off from i...
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ernie1 wrote:
On my 2800 Onan I just drain the carburetor bowl via the phillips screw in the bottom. Always works well. I've tried using Stabil and leaving some of the treated gas in the carburetor but would have a hard time starting the generator later on and I'd get backfiring too. I don't exercise the generator at all when it's stored inside my garage and have not had any problems with it starting months later and no backfiring.
Same here, on my EU2000i. 3 months of sitting and it wouldnt start. I would have to pull the carb and give a quick blast with carb cleaner. Now I simply drain the float bowl and try to start 5 or 6 times in the off position to pull any residual fuel through the jets. Starts up on the 3rd pull with choke now.
Thankfully my built in Onan 2800 microlite is propane, so no issues there.
