Onan 6300 Propane Generator
I have an Onan 6300 propane generator in a Serengeti MH. It has about 650 hours on the clock and has always been serviced annually and exercised monthly. However, now it will start OK and run for ab...
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Bob_L wrote:
CarlGeo
A few years ago, Wolfe10 wrote a great message about oil in the propane contaminating the pressure regulator/"carburetor" at the genny. Try searching this topic to try to locate that information. I've got a copy saved somewhere if you can't find it. Bob_L
This is quite possibly the problem you are seeing. Oils and heavy ends remaining in liquid propane from refinery producers can cause carb/vaporizers to clog their small passages pretty quickly and the heat used to vaporize the LP tends to bake the deposits into a hard carbon like mess. Companies who operate forklifts on propane see this as their number one repair problem.
Propane that is stripped from natural gas is generally a lot cleaner, but we don't always know what we are buying and can see problems like you are experiencing as a result.
