greenmojo
Gold Member
- Joined
- Jun 19, 2012
- Messages
- 297
- Location
- Badger Mountain, WA
- Tractor
- John Deere 4300, John Deere 450C
All;
Every time I've posted you've all been so extremely helpful, when I saw what I think is an issue with the generator, I immediately thought to bring my questions / problem here!
I have a Katolight 30,000 watt diesel generator that we use for about 12 hours a day while we build a new home up here in central Washington state. The generator is a 2006 that was pulled from a cellular site (they changed to an LP generator), before the generator had even been used. I bought it about 8 months ago with probably 1 hour of usage.
On cold mornings the generator usually takes a few cranks to turn over and fire up, then it idles for a few moments adjusts its RPMs and when all sounds good, I flip the breaker to send power to the main panel, etc.
This morning, after it fired up, I stepped outside of the generator building and noticed a lot of blue smoke wrapping around the backside of the building, I found that for the next 30 seconds, it was dumping blue smoke out of the exhaust, then heard the generator adjust RPMS and the blue smoke went away.
Concerned, I went back inside and started to look over the generator and noticed that in the housing between the engine and AC generator, there is now what appears to be oil spray and minor drips of oil. I've never noticed this before, and I am almost positive that it wasn't there yesterday.
The motor sounds fine, or at least to me it does. It is still running, I can hear it and have been checking on it all morning. In-fact, this post is powered by the generator.
I'm attaching some pictures, and would like to know more and if this is a serious "something has gone very wrong" or normal operation -- and if I need to call and get a diesel mechanic up here right away.
Thank you,
Moses.
Every time I've posted you've all been so extremely helpful, when I saw what I think is an issue with the generator, I immediately thought to bring my questions / problem here!
I have a Katolight 30,000 watt diesel generator that we use for about 12 hours a day while we build a new home up here in central Washington state. The generator is a 2006 that was pulled from a cellular site (they changed to an LP generator), before the generator had even been used. I bought it about 8 months ago with probably 1 hour of usage.
On cold mornings the generator usually takes a few cranks to turn over and fire up, then it idles for a few moments adjusts its RPMs and when all sounds good, I flip the breaker to send power to the main panel, etc.
This morning, after it fired up, I stepped outside of the generator building and noticed a lot of blue smoke wrapping around the backside of the building, I found that for the next 30 seconds, it was dumping blue smoke out of the exhaust, then heard the generator adjust RPMS and the blue smoke went away.
Concerned, I went back inside and started to look over the generator and noticed that in the housing between the engine and AC generator, there is now what appears to be oil spray and minor drips of oil. I've never noticed this before, and I am almost positive that it wasn't there yesterday.
The motor sounds fine, or at least to me it does. It is still running, I can hear it and have been checking on it all morning. In-fact, this post is powered by the generator.
I'm attaching some pictures, and would like to know more and if this is a serious "something has gone very wrong" or normal operation -- and if I need to call and get a diesel mechanic up here right away.
Thank you,
Moses.