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eyeteeth
Sep 11, 2015Explorer
Final points race this weekend... looking forward to that. Youngest son has his first Football Game tomorrow, and oldest son starts his soccer season tonight. Busy weekend.
While at the track tomorrow, going to experiment as I think we may have figured out my Generator problem. When running right, and not chocked up with Ethenol leftovers... it will only run a couple hours or so then starts surging and eventually dies. i can restart it for a little while, but eventually does the same thing. I've tried a bunch o' stuff, but finally had the simplest possible solution suggested this past weekend. Let you know next week... But...
The Onan has a cute little fuel pump... The gas tank, being older as you know, has a vented gas cap. We think it is possible, the fuel pump doesn't have enough power, or doesn't create enough of a vacuum (or create it quick enough) in the tank for the cap vent to open. Going to try cracking the cap this weekend and see how long the generator runs.
While at the track tomorrow, going to experiment as I think we may have figured out my Generator problem. When running right, and not chocked up with Ethenol leftovers... it will only run a couple hours or so then starts surging and eventually dies. i can restart it for a little while, but eventually does the same thing. I've tried a bunch o' stuff, but finally had the simplest possible solution suggested this past weekend. Let you know next week... But...
The Onan has a cute little fuel pump... The gas tank, being older as you know, has a vented gas cap. We think it is possible, the fuel pump doesn't have enough power, or doesn't create enough of a vacuum (or create it quick enough) in the tank for the cap vent to open. Going to try cracking the cap this weekend and see how long the generator runs.
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