07-21-2013, 09:04 PM
So this weekend we traveled North to camp with friends. It was hot outnsominhad the generator running so I could run the AC's. Now as I have told you in this before my temp gauge for the genset is stuck at 150. It ran up to 190 and the genset turned off. I let it reast about an hour and started it again. It ran for about 15 minutes got to 190 and shut off. This morning before we left I decided to open the generator door to see if maybe it was low on radiator fluid. When I opened the door the belt that runs my blower and the fly wheel on the blower were just laying in the compartment. Looks like it just worked its way off. So I tightened it back on and it ran great. Temp hovered around 175 the whole way. So what is a typical operating temperature for these anyway. This 15 degrees does not see like much of a difference to shut off the generator but then again maybe my gauge is giving me bad readings all the way around.
Todd & Dawn Flickema
Former owners of a Classic 1984 Newell
71 Karmann Ghia
Sioux Falls, South Dakota