Honda 3000 Problem
Our 12 year old reliable, trouble free, Honda 3000 generator has started to give me and my wife a problem. It has always powered our Dometic 13,500 AC unit fine when boondocking, but now shuts dow...
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Yosemite Sam1 wrote:rrupert wrote:2oldman wrote:
Has it been stored with gas in the carb?
And do you use ethanol-free gas? Ethanol gas is hard on small engines.
Can you still buy ethanol-free gas?
Check from source if generator is still giving out the rated wattage.
Yes here are apps for your phone that will point to Pure Gasoline (no booze in it) and most Marinas have it.
Frankly I think the thing with E-10 is.... perhaps a bit over alarmed. I think many of the issues reported with it are older engines designed to run on e-0 to e-2 No more (E-2 is "Deicer" by the way Heet Brand Gas line antifreeze added to the tank by Standard bakck before E-5 and now e-10 became a thing.. It works).
Newer engines are designed to run on e-10 or higher (Depending on the engine) however I am not convinced of the "Benefits" of E-10 for other reasons thus I remain opposed to it.
