Your last generator Maintenance Run

[Racer4]

Sorry, not trying to steer conversation away from generators, but this may be the same type engine?

The engine in my Vermeer stump cutter may be the same model 35 hp Briggs Vanguard.

These are Briggs & Stratton design, manufactured by Daihatsu (a subsidiary of Toyota) in Japan.

They get pretty hard workout in this service and I stick to 40 - 50 hour oil change.

This one has 870 hours on and so far never needed oil addition, however it gives slight puff of blue smoke when restarted while still hot after hard working!
To me that indicates it may be time to check & change the valve stem seals soon.


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Very similar, if not the same. Hard to tell

 

[3930dave]

i just went through this, a problem of my own making. I have a Honda eu6500, I've had it for quite some time. Maybe 2008, 2009?

It's located in my side yard storage area, I'm there year 'round, so I typically run it once a month or so for 20-30 minutes.

I had the generator pulled away from the house when I was building stone walls. Generator ran out of gas and since it was the end of the day I put it away but I forgot to turn the key OFF. I made a gas run a few days later and filled up the generator, tried to fire it off, that's when I saw the key and discovered the dead battery. Generator sat for quite a while with a tank of gas and a dead battery.

Battery (original) wouldn't hold a charge after I killed it through neglect, so I got a new battery and that's when I discovered the contaminated fuel. About the worst I've ever seen.

Drained the tank, pulled the tank off the generator frame, put a chain in the tank and agitated it to clean out all the crud. Pulled the fuel lines and the carburetor and did an unltrasonic cleaning.

Been running like a champ ever since. With maintenance runs!

A Triple Tap, from Murphy !

Nice recovery, and hopefully He will leave you be for a while

Rgds, D.

 

[JRH02]

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Rgds, D.

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