pclausen
Veteran Member
Technician came by today and looked the 15kw Generac unit over. This is what he found:
* Coil/ignition wires were dry rotted and that was the cause of the hard starting
* Passed compression test
* Oil on cylinder walls
He plans to come back and perform a leak down test, which he expects will fail due to the oil observed in the cylinder bores. He also plans to do a load test when he returns. He said that in order to replace the ignition wires, the engine has to come out and be almost completely disassembled. Seems like a terrible design if true.
* Coil/ignition wires were dry rotted and that was the cause of the hard starting
* Passed compression test
* Oil on cylinder walls
He plans to come back and perform a leak down test, which he expects will fail due to the oil observed in the cylinder bores. He also plans to do a load test when he returns. He said that in order to replace the ignition wires, the engine has to come out and be almost completely disassembled. Seems like a terrible design if true.