Portable Generator In Place of Onan Built In Generator

Granted we have a class A but if yours is permanently mounted in like ours the principles should be the same. Our 6.5K Onan went belly up and I am replacing it with a 7K portable generator with a Honda engine that I got from my BIL for $1000. I am removing the gas tank and installing an electric fuel pump to get gas from the MH's fuel tank to the generator. The hardest part so far is designing & building a new frame to hold it in place. It will be noisier as it runs at 3600 RPMs and the Onan ran at 2500 RPMs. But I feel this is going to be cost effective considering a reliable used Onan is just shy of $3000 and a new one is twice that much. Supposedly this newer generator will use less fuel than the older (1987) Onan did. On that point we will have to see.