Nice old genny! I had one a bit newer than that and sold it because it was so noisy. It also didn't have 220v so i bought a quieter one that did. On a side note, my brother asked me if I wanted his old Yamaha 1000 inverter. Said he overloaded it in Arizona this last winter and the repair place told him he had a software issue with it. The repair place was BSing him. I took the carb apart and blew it out, got rid of the stale gas and changed the oil. Fired it up and had to adjust the carb a bit to get it to settle down and now it runs perfectly. Bro came over a few days after that and I started it up and he said he can't remember it ever sounding that smooth. I offered it back to him but he said no, he was going to throw it in the dump if I hadn't taken it. He has a Champion 3500 inverter now. This is light enough that I'll keep it in the basement during the winter and if the power goes out it will start right away being warm. I want to see if it will start and run my furnace fan.
Perfect set up on the muffler @WelderDave, my big welder/genny has a good quiet exhaust on it that I built for extended running. Stator whine is all I hear from that one.
It's still noisy, but "NOTHING" like it was! It'll be fine with a 50+ ft extension cord. It puts out the juice though very well! With new oil and fresh gas it seems to be just fine now. I "lucked out"!
Build a 4 sided plywood box to set it under and point the muffler away from you. That will cut noise down a lot also!
WeldrDave You may want to rethink your idea of putting a load on it at start up. I have a genset that I run thru a manual transfer switch and I will get the genset running before putting a load on it. Read it some place. Be sure not to plug it into your house wiring to prevent back feed into the commercial lines.
This is true...you always want the genny to be at full speed before loading it...to do so any earlier will subject the "load" to low voltage and HZ...and some things don't handle that so well. WeldrDave , is the engine bolted solid to the genny frame? I ask because they are often rubber mounted and "vibrate" around quite a bit...would maybe cause issues with that new solid exhaust arrangement? If it is bolted direct to the frame then everything should vibrate on the same frequency and plane...should be fine...either way, excellent use of stuff laying around! Can't beat this deal with a stick! I added a tractor muffler to a V4 Wisconsin pump engine a few years back...made a HUGE difference in the operating noise level! Dad had (still has?) a Coleman genny very similar to that one years ago...it worked well when needed...
You are correct and I mis-spoke, My meaning was have the cords plugged into the machine before starting, beings the exhaust is facing in the direction where the plugs are. (No load turned on) Good catch! I was aware of that.
Yes, I did check that, I would have rubberized the muffler mounts or came up with a different scenario if it hadn't.
I did get a video but Chris and I can't figure on how to get it on the forum. We have it loaded on the computer "BUT" when I try to bring it on it keeps coming up with "ERROR". I'll let Holly try, she's the College grad!
Videos need to uploaded to sites like youtube, then links to it get posted here. That's been my experience
MikeInMa is right.... Set up a YouTube account. Very easy. Once you upload it to YouTube, grab the link, come back ovah here, click on the little film strip icon and paste..... on second thought, better get Holly involved
Sorry, I'm not ready for youtube, I would have posted it here, but not there! Oh well... Some day when you hit the East Coast you can see it in person!
