Mudrat
02-14-2009, 06:43 PM
In Nov I couldn't get the danged thing running for hunt camp - pissed me off, but this was really the first weekend I had to check it out. I'm now probably the only guy on the East Coast ( you Westies are on your own 8) ) that has a port and polished 2.2 KW generator 8)
I couldn't get it started for hunting season and was resigned the basic inverter in the truck to run the fridge, computer and ONE light. I couldn't get it to pull all the way through and it wouldn't rotate 360? Took the generator side apart - no problems there, so I decided to find out what would keep the motor from rotating ...
Pulled the head and inside the cylinder I found a bunch of "grunge and rust" that was compacted into the head keeping it from rotating 360. Had to use the vacuum to clean it out :shock: There was so much "stuff" the piston couldn't get all the way up!!! :oops:
So, while I had it apart and was rebuilding, I decided to do some port smoothing and a valve job :mrgreen: Scrubed the valves, decarboned the head, took the die grinder to the rough parts and finished up with the CRAYTEX sticks on the gus-in and gus-out sides and cleaned the fuel tank, :? After about 6 hours of take down, polish, and reassemble, it starts on the second pull and runs like a scalded dog!! :lo1l: Probably need to adjust the governer since it sounds WAY faster than it used to #-o [How do you connect a timing light 8) to a generator???]
Oh yeah, bought the wife some roses and a card today, but her present was leaving me alone in the shop =D> :razz:
I couldn't get it started for hunting season and was resigned the basic inverter in the truck to run the fridge, computer and ONE light. I couldn't get it to pull all the way through and it wouldn't rotate 360? Took the generator side apart - no problems there, so I decided to find out what would keep the motor from rotating ...
Pulled the head and inside the cylinder I found a bunch of "grunge and rust" that was compacted into the head keeping it from rotating 360. Had to use the vacuum to clean it out :shock: There was so much "stuff" the piston couldn't get all the way up!!! :oops:
So, while I had it apart and was rebuilding, I decided to do some port smoothing and a valve job :mrgreen: Scrubed the valves, decarboned the head, took the die grinder to the rough parts and finished up with the CRAYTEX sticks on the gus-in and gus-out sides and cleaned the fuel tank, :? After about 6 hours of take down, polish, and reassemble, it starts on the second pull and runs like a scalded dog!! :lo1l: Probably need to adjust the governer since it sounds WAY faster than it used to #-o [How do you connect a timing light 8) to a generator???]
Oh yeah, bought the wife some roses and a card today, but her present was leaving me alone in the shop =D> :razz: