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Old 02-01-2018, 03:24 AM   #1
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Spark arrester on generator

Do not forget to clean out. Did mine yesterday lots of carbon/soot if you will.
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I’ve never gotten any soot out of mine, maybe because when it’s used, it gets heavy use.

I would be interested to hear what others have experienced as far as the soot issue from their diesel gen muffler.

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When I had my Genny serviced, the tech said mine did not have a spark arrestor... 2016 MA w/12.5kw genset. Anyone know more about this than me?
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I’ve never gotten any soot out of mine, maybe because when it’s used, it gets heavy use.

I would be interested to hear what others have experienced as far as the soot issue from their diesel gen muffler.

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Nor have I. I also use my generator heavily each year. I had to drill out the plug the 1st time because it was seized, which makes me think it was never done before I got it.
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During Camp Freightliner II I watched the tech clean mine out.
Looked like a puff of smoke and that was it.

Genny only has about 170 hours.

This is covered towards the end of the video.
https://youtu.be/CxqkHAAH818
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525 hrs , 18 years old this year.......7.5 Onan, clean as a whistle.....when checked for the first time a couple of years ago......never no smoke of any kind, even when cold.
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When I had my Genny serviced, the tech said mine did not have a spark arrestor... 2016 MA w/12.5kw genset. Anyone know more about this than me?

I have a 12.5k as well. when I did the maintenance, I wasn't able to locate the spark arrestor either. can't find any reference to it on any of the manuals either.
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When I had my Genny serviced, the tech said mine did not have a spark arrestor... 2016 MA w/12.5kw genset. Anyone know more about this than me?
FWIW Pat at Freightliner told me some new generators do not have one.
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....15 years and 1600+ hours on my 7500QD--checked arrestor for first time a few years ago--totally clean. Genset get run pretty hard when used--not much idle time.....
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