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ROBERTSUNRUS
Explorer
Oct 17, 2016

Yamaha 2400 Generator noise.

:) Hi, I have a wonderful Yamaha 2400 generator. It serves it's purpose fine. But on my last trip, I had to stop using it because of a scraping noise. I did a search on-line and only found one other person with virtually the same problem. After taking some of my generator apart to find the problem, it was on the opposite side of where I thought it was. It sounded like it was coming from the re-coil starter, but in fact was on the generator / rotor side. You need to remove all of the plastic covers. On the exhaust side there is a plastic fan case. A few screws will remove the outer fan cover. Three bolts will remove the fan. Next you will have to remove the rotor; It has one nut and a washer. I bought a steering wheel, or universal small engine puller. I needed some longer metric bolts so the puller would remove the rotor. Then you need to remove four bolts to remove the stater. The inside plastic fan housing has three bolts holding it in place. The inside bolt comes loose and rubs against the rotor and will sometimes lock up the generator. The other two housing bolts are on the outside of the fan housing. To fix this properly, and what Yamaha should have done, is to use blue Loctite on all of the bolts, there fore you need to remove the starter side bolts and lock tight them too. This cost me about $25.00 for one bolt, one puller kit, blue lock tight, and long metric bolts for the puller to do this job. This is not a hard job to do.
  • wa8yxm's avatar
    wa8yxm
    Explorer III
    Reminds me of a job I had ....Long, long long time ago, We used a horzontial motor (not unlike the one on your Yahama) and had it professionally, or so they claimed, serviced.. Now they did have it so it started real nice and ran good. But they did NOT properly tighten a couple of bolts... The bolts that hold the magneto magnet to the enbine block, thus it was riding hard on the flywheel.

    I make a guess, slipped a double sheet of typing paper between magnet and flywheel and tightened 'em down.. Since I've confirmed my guess was accurate.

    (the correct Gap)

    Following that,, 2nd or 3rd pull first thing in the AM.. after that for the rest of the day. one pull, did not even need to pull hard.. Now that's how it should be.
  • Thanks for the post. I'll put it in my memory if I ever hear the noise!
  • Thanks for posting this.
    More than likely it will help someone here in the future.
  • glad you found an easy fix, for the simple but annoying problem

    out of hundreds of thousands sold, and only a few exhibit this problem ?

    Yamaha's normal production methods are probably sufficient

    that bolt probably either did not get full torque when installed
    or was just inside the tolerance spec for size, from the bolt MFG