honda generator issues

[geo17]

On my last trip my generator cut out on eco mode twice. I turned off the eco mode and it ran on full power for about 5 hours and cut out again. Started it again on full power and ran the rest of the trip on full power. Is this something I can fix on my own? I read the carb may be gunked up and to try seafoam. Any ideas would be appreciated. It's a 2000.

[slurpie]

Check oil or even replace oil with a lighter oil it's cold out now.

[yoppdk]

Any chance you overloaded it? My 3000 will cut out if we put too much of a load on it.

[geo17]

I've overloaded it before but not this time. It sputtered a bit like it was starving for gas and finally cut out the times it cut out this weekend. Had plenty of gas left.

[Lip_Ripper Guy]

Try running with the choke partially in the on position. I have to do that with my Yamaha in this cold weather.

[efgh]

It maybe frost buildup on the gas cap, frost will plug the breather holes and cause the gen. to slow down or quit.

[2thepointsetters]

Check your oil level and air filter. The snow was blowing on my Honda this weekend and got to the air filter. The generator went into safe mode because the gas was filling up the crank case. The oil was way overfull and diluted by gas. Once I dried the air filter and changed oil it ran right again.

[Luke_M]

You may be getting ice build up in the breather hose behind the air filter. There is a cold weather kit for the EU generators that puts a heater inline in the breather.

[fsnrod]

Run it in the pickup box we use to run the compressors and generators in the enclosed trailers when it was real cold out.

[fasterthanyou]

Mine did same thing this weekend on both my 2000i and my 3000i something freezing up not sure what

[Jigging Joe]

I had to run my choke partially on also, must be the extreme cold weather, it was -30 on red lake. The last morning I couldn't get it to run because the oil light kept coming on. I just checked the oil and it looks at the correct level. If the oil is too full, will the light come on also?

When I was having the low oil issue it was -30 but I kept the generator in the house, so it was warm when it first started and I was using 5w-30. I need to try it again now in a little warmer environment and see if it works.

[fasterthanyou]

Ya I would bring mine in my house for an hour then it was good for twelve hours

[fsnrod]

I have had the gas line freeze up one time when I used non ethanol gas just like the old days but now I didn't have any deicer with. It would run for a little while and quit I'd have bring it in the house warm it up same thing all over again. I just use regular ethanol gas now no problem.