3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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Leaning the mixture seems to be the right way to go. It's sure running rich, now, based on the black soot all over the spark plug. I bought two more "extended, hot running" plugs and will swap them out as needed as they foul. Do wonder what its doing to the combustion chamber, though.
The JB Weld is curing as I type this. Don't see why it won't work, as I was able to fit the three pieces of the boot back together perfectly.
Agree that the tongue is a turbulent place. But I was concerned about the bouncing the gen would take (and inflict) on the rear of my 30+ft. TT. Perhaps I should have gone that way, though. I was also concerned about not being able to tell if the gen. was running with it way back there. My thinking was that I'd be able to roll down the window and listen, but the Champion is so quiet that unless I was at a dead stop, I couldn't hear it running directly behind the truck, either. :)
It's very possible that the cracked boot was responsible for much of my problems. I don't know how long it was cracked, I only discovered it when I removed the plug. This was a day or two after I had to give up trying to run it at all. Is it possible the extra load was causing it to arc to the engine and kill it, where it otherwise would have handled the load? (The cracked pieces were still held in place by the rubber grommet.)
I'll experiment tomorrow as we head out of Durango towards Albuquerque, and report in either that night, or the following night once I hit Dallas.
The JB Weld is curing as I type this. Don't see why it won't work, as I was able to fit the three pieces of the boot back together perfectly.
Agree that the tongue is a turbulent place. But I was concerned about the bouncing the gen would take (and inflict) on the rear of my 30+ft. TT. Perhaps I should have gone that way, though. I was also concerned about not being able to tell if the gen. was running with it way back there. My thinking was that I'd be able to roll down the window and listen, but the Champion is so quiet that unless I was at a dead stop, I couldn't hear it running directly behind the truck, either. :)
It's very possible that the cracked boot was responsible for much of my problems. I don't know how long it was cracked, I only discovered it when I removed the plug. This was a day or two after I had to give up trying to run it at all. Is it possible the extra load was causing it to arc to the engine and kill it, where it otherwise would have handled the load? (The cracked pieces were still held in place by the rubber grommet.)
I'll experiment tomorrow as we head out of Durango towards Albuquerque, and report in either that night, or the following night once I hit Dallas.
