Generator keeps shutting off
We took our MH from the east coast of Florida to the west coast to get away from the hurricane. We are parked in my cousin's driveway and have no shore power. So, in order to keep my residential ref...
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deal with this all the time. When gen shuts off, place couple paper towels under carb, open bowl drain screw, see if much fuel comes out. If only couple drops, or none, then either fuel pump is getting hot and quits pumping, or control board is getting overheated, and quits sending power to fuel pump. Usually displays fault code 36, but have seen other fault codes if control board is problem. There is third condition that will cause these symptoms, that being hot air is being recirculating to air intake and gen temperature in housing is getting so hot that gas is boiling in fuel line and carb, causing shut down. This problem seems to be much more common last couple years, and I can't prove it, but I think fuel boiling point is lower than used to be with the crappy fuel we have to use these days
