Posted by Bob M on March 04, 2019 at 08:11:47 from (172.101.186.46):
In Reply to: Generator posted by Vern on March 03, 2019 at 21:18:21:
Presuming you have a dry place to store your generator my advice is to empty the fuel tank, run it until it quits, then simply leave alone it until needed. No regular "exercise" is required.
I have two cheap Coleman Powermate generators (2,500 and 4,000 watt) I loan to desperate neighbors during extended outages. Both had been sitting unstarted for nearly 4 years before a widespread outage here last weekend. I dragged them out, checked the oil and filled them with ethanol-free gas. Both started on the first pull, then ran/made electricity perfectly for the next 18 hours or so.
My "primary" generator (a Champion 3,500) gets run several times every winter. It is stored with the tank full of enthanol-free gas and treated with Stabil, the fuel line shut off and the carb run dry. It too starts on 1 or 2 pulls whenever needed, even after sitting for 9 - 10 months.
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