/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Boomer neighbor brought over this generator he “found” today because they can’t into Google. He says him and the other boomer neighbor put fresh oil in it, the gas was dirty as hell so they replaced that. It will start fine, run for like 10sec and then die.

I drained the fuel they put in and tried to find a filter but it was just a small screen and a sediment trap in the cutoff valve right under the tank. I believe if the fuel was slow to get through there, he could still get a bit more runtime from the fuel in the downstream lines and carb. So it’s either carb or it seems like the low oil sensor thing commonly fails on these Generacs but I’m not sure if that would allow it to start and run for 10-15sec before dying off. Gonna try and clean the shit out of the carb tonight.

OE replacement carb was $95 so I don’t want to start throwing parts at it. The thing has an oil filter in plain view and boomer didn’t even think about that.