Gale Hawkins wrote:
If it is not dripping oil then it would have to be getting pasted the rings I would think and smoking like crazy. Now that the weather is warm I want to look at our generator issue soon. No trip planned but non startin stuff eats at my brain.
The PO must to have left the dipstick loose and blowed oil out the crank case and made a mess that we cleaned up.
The High Mileage M1 10w-40 would have been the motor oil of choice too for a used air cooled engine. Keep us updated at you work with your generator. If it was not using oil and started using oil right after the oil change that is a clue. The MH1 oil could not start a leak really fast I would think.
Do you think that there is any connection with the breather tube having been disconnected at the air filter box? Could that have been a result of overfilling? Reconnecting it didn't solve the problem, but it certainly seemed fishy. Is it "safe" (meaning: can I really mess anything up?) if I take the breather tube off at the crankcase and the air filter box to make sure it is not clogged?
