honda EB 4000 generator problem

[plotthound]

cleaned the carb again and found two wee holes that I had missed.got a wire into them then soaked the carb over night in seafoam.put everything back together ant the hunting is almost gone so I give it another good dose of seafoam in the tank.seems better now.adjusted the govonor tention spring a bit more and got it to 59-60 hz.now the original issue with this generator was oil spewing out the crankcase breather tube.after all the engine work I did on it the was still a good stream of oil coming out of the tube so I removed the breather cover again and saw that there was only one little drain back hole for the oil to get back into the crankcase.i enlarged the hole to 1/4 inch then drilled 3 extra ones.put it back together and ran it for an hour and that was the end of the oil barfing problem.this little project got a expensive real fast but I hope I'm smarter for it.lol

[RoyM]

Good for you. I chalk it up to what I call the education tax, the cost of learning.

[KE4AVB]

You just learned more in doing this than at any factory training school. Most of them only hit the highlights that I have been to over the years. You also just found out that sometimes mods are necessary to overcome a design flaw, even OEMs do this at times. They call it product improvements.

I am a self train fellow myself and I usually work rings around the local dealers as they techs are not that well trained or experienced. This doesn't mean that I didn't take 2 years of electronics training but most my mechanical training was done by my self father while I was a pre-teenager and continue by myself as you are doing now further training myself. I help rebuild my first V8 while I was in the second grade. Of course I don't know everything and I am learning new things all the time; none of us know everything. As log as you willing to ask for help when you need it is a sign of a good repairman. For me it is hard to get help with my problems as they are usually over the heads of most customer support personnel now and that is frustrating.

I personally know of several cases that the JD dealer even giving the completely false information and recently they couldn't even repair a Stihl hedger that was under warranty. I ended up having to fix it myself for the customer. I also got in several local shops supposedly repaired equipment last year that I had to redo. Mostly hack up wiring problems. Their screw-ups just make me look better and more profitable.

[plotthound]

good for you KE4AVB,you found your niche in life.