Generator surges
I have a 1997 Damon Intruder with a 5500 Onan generator. It surges and I have tried to adjust the carb. It has two adjustment screws. I have gotten it to stop surging by adjusting the small ideal jet ...
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Here is what is going on now. I start the generator and it starts fine . I plug in a fan still runs fine. So no load or light load runs good. The wife plugged in the vacuum cleaner and it starts surging. The wife doesn't know any better so keeps running the vacuum and burns it up. Under no load the ac plugs are running 123v. I didn't check it when it was surging didn't want to burn something up.
I need to add I took the carb out cleaned it the fuel pump wasn't working so I pulled it out it was clean inside and so is the filter the plunger was stuck I freed it up oiled it and the pump works great. I was still having trouble getting it to pull fuel from the rigs fuel tank I fix that by replacing the rubber fuel line that was cracked. Before i id all that it would run but surge all the time and smoked black (rich) smoke. Now it runs clean (no smoke) and runs good under no load and light loads.
I need to add I took the carb out cleaned it the fuel pump wasn't working so I pulled it out it was clean inside and so is the filter the plunger was stuck I freed it up oiled it and the pump works great. I was still having trouble getting it to pull fuel from the rigs fuel tank I fix that by replacing the rubber fuel line that was cracked. Before i id all that it would run but surge all the time and smoked black (rich) smoke. Now it runs clean (no smoke) and runs good under no load and light loads.
