Hour meter

Hi All.

All good answers. If you put in a New Meter and don't make it known its not the true hours on it, it is Fraud. plain and simple.

Good Luck. Happy Travels. Dan & Jill

We had a new gen installed by Cummins/Onan. They noted on the receipt the hours on the meter at the time of replacement.

If you put a new transmision or engine in a Car, would it be ethical to roll back the odometer to 0???----NO. Doug

To answer the original question, you can buy a new hour meter for about $20. For example, this meter.
But you may want to add a label that says, original hours on generator were XXX.

I provide technical advice. The ethics is up to you.

I like the P-Touch solution (Stick a label that says Overhauled at xxxx hours)

This is 100% informative, 100% true and nobody can accuse you of fraud.

wildtoad wrote:
I'm not sure you should do that even if you can. It would give a false representation of the status of the gen to a future owner. Instead I would document what you did, when you did it, and the reading on the meter when it was done.

X2

I'm not sure you should do that even if you can. It would give a false representation of the status of the gen to a future owner. Instead I would document what you did, when you did it, and the reading on the meter when it was done.

Al,

Don't bother.
Just get a label to stick on that says: Overhauled at XXXX hours.
That is what we do in the rest of the mechanical world.

Matt