| Re: OK, next Onan question [message #323616 is a reply to message #322718] |
Fri, 08 September 2017 23:41   |
Krfjkm
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Ken-- thank you for helping those ladies out--- they seem like "good people" !
KRFJKM
Jim Morgan
Charlotte NC
1978 Palm Beach
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| Re: OK, next Onan question [message #323622 is a reply to message #323616] |
Sat, 09 September 2017 01:41 |
Ken Burton
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I do not know how much I helped them. It took a week for us to fix everything. They were on their way to Texas and ended up returning to Chicago instead because I delayed them so long.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: OK, next Onan question [message #323646 is a reply to message #322718] |
Sat, 09 September 2017 12:52 |
mghamms
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I just went through fixing my Onan problem.
It wold start and only run a few seconds.
Looked like a fuel problem. If i jumped the fuel pump for a few minutes it would start again.
I bought a new facet FEP60SV with a new filter and nothing changed.
Next I removed the carburetor when I took it apart and cleaned there was a small piece of smegma, on top of the nettle valve seat, blocking (slowing) the fuel from entering the float bowl.
Well I now have a new pump and filter and some more experience.
Hope all have fun with there problem Onan.
1977 Kingsley 455 as stock as it gets except lots of Ragusa parts
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| Re: [GMCnet] OK, next Onan question [message #323650 is a reply to message #323646] |
Sat, 09 September 2017 13:31 |
Jim Miller
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On Sep 9, 2017, at 1:52 PM, Mike Hamm wrote:
> Next I removed the carburetor when I took it apart and cleaned there was a small piece of smegma, on top of the nettle valve seat, blocking (slowing) the fuel from entering the float bowl.
I’ve fixed a few with that exact problem; I expect that it is a piece of the seat material that has been attacked by alcohol and behaves sort of like a flapper valve to block the fuel coming in from the pump. The usual giveaway is the completely dry carb bowl that you find after the engine dies.
—Jim
Jim Miller
1977 Eleganza
1977 Royale
Hamilton, OH
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Jim Miller
1977 Eleganza II
1977 Royale
Hamilton, OH
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| Re: [GMCnet] OK, next Onan question [message #323666 is a reply to message #323650] |
Sat, 09 September 2017 17:01 |
mghamms
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Yea I don't know where the smeg came from but it did look like rubber. May have come from the 40 year old hose.
Ran real good till I changed the rubber mounts. made me think I disturbed something.
Running better than ever now.
Jim Miller wrote on Sat, 09 September 2017 13:31On Sep 9, 2017, at 1:52 PM, Mike Hamm wrote:
> Next I removed the carburetor when I took it apart and cleaned there was a small piece of smegma, on top of the nettle valve seat, blocking (slowing) the fuel from entering the float bowl.
I've fixed a few with that exact problem; I expect that it is a piece of the seat material that has been attacked by alcohol and behaves sort of like a flapper valve to block the fuel coming in from the pump. The usual giveaway is the completely dry carb bowl that you find after the engine dies.
--Jim
Jim Miller
1977 Eleganza
1977 Royale
Hamilton, OH
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