Working on my gen set today I had to make a "puller" to get the outside cap off from the bearing. I'm not sure of the terminology but I think it's the 4 stator pads on the armature that are rather rusty as it the angled "slats" on the inside of the ...
My boy who is an electrician at Ford and does a lot of programing for them, checked out my Onan 6500 propane generator tonight. With his oscilloscope he found that the "K2 relay was not being energized while running".This is suppose to deliver 12 vol...
I've been puling my batteries at the end of the season and occasionally charge them throughout the winter in my garage. But I want to make sure I have that starting boost cable attached the right way. The chassis batteries are color coded so they're ...
I've made numerous posts here about my gen set not staying running. With all of the help from here, it may boiled down to the bands having a slick coating of whatever and needs to be cleaned off. My son who's an electrician said he could "hot wire" t...
I'm still having trouble getting my 1995 Onan generator to stay running. It is 20+ years old even though it don't have more the 360 hours on it - don't know if that's a lot or not.Issue still is it starts but dies as soon when I let off on the switch...
romore wrote:If it is just surface corrosion and not a heavy buildup of scale I wouldn't worry about it. If you really want to tear it apart be careful not to damage components, If you really want to tear it apart be careful not to damage components,...
Well it's one step forward and two steps backwards. Cleaned the rings off with my homemade tool, blew it off afterwards with my air hose, cranked it up and it ran like a charm!Wanted to work on getting the inside cleaned so I turned the main overhea...
Twomed - it's propaneChris - I was going to get that Slick Stick even with the $13 extra for shipping but I don't have the clearance to access from the side. I would have to pull the front bumper off and move the entire generator forward. Not that bi...
Thanks for the help. I should have mentioned this gen runs off of propane. If there is a window for some good weather I'll bring it back in and see if I can find the brushes and slip rings to see if I can clean them. Hopefully that will help.
