Think I Fixed My Generator

ky8t wrote:
My Onan Marquis Gold 5500 would run fine until I took the load off, which caused it to die. When I'd try to restart without a load, it would die within a few seconds. I feared that it was more carburetor problems caused by that insidious gasohol fuel the Government makes us buy. But I ran across this WEB PAGEpage that discussed the same problem. It says the problem is over frequency. So I checked the fault code as suggested and found indeed that it was 14 - over frequency. I used a plug-in power monitor and found that frequency was sometimes at 62 and seemed to jump the best I could tell when the load was removed. So I found the toothed governor lever and moved the spring over 3 notches to the left as directed. That seems to have fixed the problem!

BTW, does anyone drain the carburetor bowl when the rig will sit for more than a few days? The owner's manual that I downloaded from the Internet suggests doing that for long term storage. In this gasohol era, long term can be as little as a couple of weeks before the fuel starts to go bad as I understand it. I have begun adding putting a fuel treatment, such as Sea Foam or StarTron to a full tank when I return home from a trip in the hope that that will help.