Propane generator won’t start in the morning
Onan 3600LP By 10am or noon it will be fine, but not first thing in the morning. Winter or summer, muggy or dry. I can run it the evening before or not for weeks. The only pattern seems to be the...
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mcewena wrote:3rd new plug (Champion rn14yc) and removed the sock from the end of the vent tube (tube clear beforehand) and it’s started 3 mornings a row. ?!?
Nice to hear it may be working now.
Was the sock on the end of the vent-tube before?
Sock (actually just a scrap of cloth) had been there for 10 years without an issue in order to prevent bugs from blocking the tube. Maybe it deteriorated in a very temperature specific way?
mcewena wrote:Sock (actually just a scrap of cloth) had been there for 10 years without an issue in order to prevent bugs from blocking the tube. Maybe it deteriorated in a very temperature specific way?
You should have mentioned this in the first place. It was a dumb idea. Generators have their own filtration system You wasted a lot of time and expense dealing with this problem.
Maybe so, but I’ve also read a lot of posts and personally experienced that vent tube being blocked and preventing starting.
