Gennie Cutting Out

[Dudders]

Hi All,

Purchased this last week: http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/pr...C=GA-IH-IG1000 and ran effortlessly at TORCH on Sunday from 8am to 4pm.

Used the Gennie tonight and ran for about 1 hours then cut out and would start for 5 minutes. Restarted and ran for 10 minutes then stalled. This continued.

Fuel ok, Oil ok and everythnig else looks 'ok'. Any sugestions guys

Neil

[Dazzler]

Have you remembered to open the breather vent on the fuel cap?

[Dudders]

Yes, that was set to 'open'. I might try it with out the cap on to see if that's the error. Its very odd, Gennie isnt hot either

[Dazzler]

Has it been running on level ground? Our Kipor generator is pretty sensitive to oil level, and whilst you can have sufficient oil in the generator, it does need to be level so as not to activate the low oil cut-off. Not sure if yours has this feature, but easy to eliminate.

[Dudders]

If I tilt the unit slightly the oil is there, so I know its not low anyway. Gennie is mainly on flat level ground. Think the Kipor unit and Clarke are the same. I was thinking fuel starvation / breathing?

[bigred5765]

did u set it to run instead of start

[Dudders]

Dont think there is a setting for that is there??? Just choke and economy/full...

[Dudders]

Machine Mart techies have suggest a trial of a new spark plugs as when warm they can loose their earth ... will try...

[Dudders]

Spark plug like a chimney sweeps arse....

Totally black and sooty. Off to get replacement now, been told by Clarke techies it's either the carb or a servo thing in the programme...

[Dazzler]

Are Machine Mart / Clarkes paying for the plug and your time / fuel driving round? If not, I wouldn't waste any more time looking at it, or spend any money on it, or waste any milage fetching a plug, Just take it back. You shouldn't need to be fixing the manufacturers problem on this.

Your new plug will also soot up if the mixture is wrong and nothing is done..

You could be spending money, wasting time, and achieve nothing ...

[Dudders]

Yes mate, and collecting a whole new unit. Sorry for not making that clear. Let's hope the new one is ok

[bodgit]

Just reject it as not fit for purpose and demand a replacement. You do not have to accept a repair on a new item. Once you start letting them replace things it can drag on. If you paid by credit card which you should do nowadays for your own protection then they are liable if alls not well.

[Dudders]

All done and dusted. As they agreed on the phone, new complete unit from stock. Hopefully this one will run better!. Might get some heavy duty spark plugs as I've heard they dont like running under little loads

[mark christopher]

Originally Posted by bodgit

Just reject it as not fit for purpose and demand a replacement. You do not have to accept a repair on a new item. Once you start letting them replace things it can drag on. If you paid by credit card which you should do nowadays for your own protection then they are liable if alls not well.

you read his post 19 where he is getting a new one then?