Generator roars to life!
I decided since it had warmed up to about 75 here in Dallas today I would give starting the generator another shot. I had about 1/2 tank of diesel in the tank and tried to start. She fired right up as before, ran for about 10 seconds and died... tried again, same result... Not being insane I decided that maybe WOG was right (as if I ever doubted them) and it was a fuel issue.
A quick trip to the local NAPA to buy a fuel filter (which they did not have) and some engine degreaser I was able to get the coach generator running.
The guy at NAPA suggested draining the fuel from the existing filter thinking maybe it had water or something in it. I got home and dawned my best Nitrile gloves and a new Lone Star Birds hat from the rally in Fredericksburg a last weekend...
Did a little cleanup on the old engine and waited for it all to dry.
I held the fuel filter bottom water separator (I guess that's what that thing is...) using a huge set of vice-grips while I unscrewed the bolt at the bottom of the fuel filter thingy... I decided not much fuel was coming out so I hit the start button and watched the fuel pour out (into a great bucket for mortar mixing from Home Depot). I screwed everything back together.
While I was waiting for the fuel to dry I started cleaning up the genset. This required half a roll of blue shop towels (but I didn't get any on me!). I noticed all the foam sound insulation on the front of the genset was just coming off and disintegrating from age. I decided to get as much of it out as I could, this took a while longer than I had anticipated. Very dusty stuff and about the time I was just about finished I was thinking 'maybe I should be wearing a mask'... ask me in a few years if it affected my health... My uncle died from Arsenic poisoning resulting from breathing fumes while cutting landscape timbers so you never know...
Finally it was time to try out the genset again.
Turned off both the breakers on the rear of the genset and pushed the start button. She roared to life again only this time SHE STAYED STARTED!!!
I did a happy dance in the yard (no one saw and I didn't take pictures!) and left her running for a few minutes to check the temperatures.
The highest temp I saw with my handy dandy thermo-gun was about 150 degrees. I don't have any idea what temp this genset should run at and need to research it some.
Engine: 147.5 at the back - I did notice that the rear cylinders and the air inlet all get hotter as they go toward the back of the coach... not sure why they didn't run dual air inlets to cool things down on both ends...
Exhaust output on rear of genset 252 degrees
Squirrel cage fan came on after we put a load (2 a/c units) on it. This was the right side water inlet/outlet - reading: 108 degrees
The left side water inlet/outlet (whatever) showed 130 degrees at the squirrel cage fan.
We put a load with two A/C units and some lighting inside and watched the guages inside (my wife thought they were very exciting to watch...)
Everything looked 'normal' but I will confirm with WOG to make sure!
A quick trip to the local NAPA to buy a fuel filter (which they did not have) and some engine degreaser I was able to get the coach generator running.
The guy at NAPA suggested draining the fuel from the existing filter thinking maybe it had water or something in it. I got home and dawned my best Nitrile gloves and a new Lone Star Birds hat from the rally in Fredericksburg a last weekend...
Did a little cleanup on the old engine and waited for it all to dry.
I held the fuel filter bottom water separator (I guess that's what that thing is...) using a huge set of vice-grips while I unscrewed the bolt at the bottom of the fuel filter thingy... I decided not much fuel was coming out so I hit the start button and watched the fuel pour out (into a great bucket for mortar mixing from Home Depot). I screwed everything back together.
While I was waiting for the fuel to dry I started cleaning up the genset. This required half a roll of blue shop towels (but I didn't get any on me!). I noticed all the foam sound insulation on the front of the genset was just coming off and disintegrating from age. I decided to get as much of it out as I could, this took a while longer than I had anticipated. Very dusty stuff and about the time I was just about finished I was thinking 'maybe I should be wearing a mask'... ask me in a few years if it affected my health... My uncle died from Arsenic poisoning resulting from breathing fumes while cutting landscape timbers so you never know...
Finally it was time to try out the genset again.
Turned off both the breakers on the rear of the genset and pushed the start button. She roared to life again only this time SHE STAYED STARTED!!!
I did a happy dance in the yard (no one saw and I didn't take pictures!) and left her running for a few minutes to check the temperatures.
The highest temp I saw with my handy dandy thermo-gun was about 150 degrees. I don't have any idea what temp this genset should run at and need to research it some.
Engine: 147.5 at the back - I did notice that the rear cylinders and the air inlet all get hotter as they go toward the back of the coach... not sure why they didn't run dual air inlets to cool things down on both ends...
Exhaust output on rear of genset 252 degrees
Squirrel cage fan came on after we put a load (2 a/c units) on it. This was the right side water inlet/outlet - reading: 108 degrees
The left side water inlet/outlet (whatever) showed 130 degrees at the squirrel cage fan.
We put a load with two A/C units and some lighting inside and watched the guages inside (my wife thought they were very exciting to watch...)
Everything looked 'normal' but I will confirm with WOG to make sure!
Location:dallas, tx
posted by Adrian Abshire | 3:07 PM
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