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Re: Standby generator


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Posted by fixerupper on August 29, 2017 at 06:18:39 from (100.42.94.143):

In Reply to: Standby generator posted by fixerupper on August 28, 2017 at 19:57:40:

The reason I am concerned about the gasoline going bad is the other generator I overhauled several years ago came back to me last spring with a gummed up gas tank and fuel pump. The carb was OK ironically. He used a mixture of 50% non ethanol pump gas and 50% av gas thinking this concoction would hold up better in storage. I ended up cleaning it up by soaking it in 85% ethanol for several days.

I have not had problems with 10% ethanol going bad and gumming up the works here in northwest Iowa climate conditions in any of my gasoline engines except for one, the pony motor in my R Deere. I don't know what is unique about that pony motor to make it cause these problems. If the fuel system would gum up on any of the old tractors I would merely jump on another tractor and use it instead. This generator, however, has to be reliable. If it doesn't start and run it is just a mere dead chunk of iron sitting in the corner of the shed and the farm will be without power. Leaving just a little fuel in the tank is no good because of condensation problems. Having the tank completely full helps negate the condensation problems but that's a lot of gas just sitting there going sour. This rig does have an option to run a fuel line to a remote tank. Turn the valve one way to get fuel from the external tank or turn the valve the other way to use the tank that is on the unit. I am thinking about rigging up a small external tank for test runs and leaving the main tank empty but then the main tank will be condensing water and rusting. Just a few rambling thoughts.

As far as propane goes, I don't know how much power I will need from this engine to power up the farm but I am thinking it is minimal in size already so I don't have much leeway. About the only thing I can do is set it up and load it down and see what happens.


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