My trusty Onan 7000 watt genset gave up the ghost on me yesterday. When I went to start it it turned over a few times and then just started rapidly clicking.
A friend of mine who is a fairly experienced RV mechanic came over this morning and we started trying to find out what was wrong, after having to buy a set of torx sockets, which I didn't have.
Finally got the cover off of the box that contains the circuit board, starter button, and solenoid and pulled the solenoid, thinking this was the culpret. Took the solenoid to the local auto store and they checked it out and pronounced it OK.
We then applied the hot lead of a 50 amp battery charger directly to the starter side of the solenoid and all we got was a slow groaning from the starter.
My friend says this means the starter is shot and will have to be replaced or rebuilt. We are going to pull the starter tomorrow but this will necessitate dropping the entire generator down to get at it.
Does anyone have any ideas or further tests I can do to make sure this is the problem ??
Woody
A friend of mine who is a fairly experienced RV mechanic came over this morning and we started trying to find out what was wrong, after having to buy a set of torx sockets, which I didn't have.
Finally got the cover off of the box that contains the circuit board, starter button, and solenoid and pulled the solenoid, thinking this was the culpret. Took the solenoid to the local auto store and they checked it out and pronounced it OK.
We then applied the hot lead of a 50 amp battery charger directly to the starter side of the solenoid and all we got was a slow groaning from the starter.
My friend says this means the starter is shot and will have to be replaced or rebuilt. We are going to pull the starter tomorrow but this will necessitate dropping the entire generator down to get at it.
Does anyone have any ideas or further tests I can do to make sure this is the problem ??
Woody