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Title: Generator surging and un-commanded stop... Solved
Post by: romstead on November 17, 2019, 05:10:53 pm

My Gen. began to surge today during a dry-camp out in the dessert. Then just stop on it's own. I watched these two Viedo's and Solved the problem . If you have similar issues I would take a look at the info in the videos.

in a nut shell I had two much oil in the Gen. even though the dip stick said it as ok. Seems there is a design issue with the dip stick and  the dip stick will read ok when in reality you have to much oil in the Gen which causes un-commanded stopping and surging and plugs up the air filter.

I took out 200ml of oil changed my Gen air filter and all is good. the Gen is purring like a kitten

My dip stick now shows a fill line just above the add line.

here are the vedios

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzXDlln8aUw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh0XIO6ClNk

Title: Re: Generator surging and un-commanded stop... Solved
Post by: Ron Dittmer on November 17, 2019, 05:41:44 pm

Great Tip there romstead Rob