 This video is brought to you in part by TrueTechTools quality tools essential support All right guys, so we're going to look at a generator here You guys know I love these things. They're so much fun. Generally the brake when it's raining snowing something bad Had done some work on this thing a while back had it replaced a Control board on it. They hadn't been having it maintenance and now they want to but It's going off on oil failure. I guess from what I'm being told somebody else was out here I've got to get them locked here to see if we can figure out What the code is because I like I said, I haven't been here for a while See if we can get this thing opened up Usually is this one There we go. Four things been wore out a little bit. All right. Looks uh, let's do In 2020. God has it been that long since I've done it So switched off Where's all we'll level that now Always like check it Honestly, I don't see nothing wrong with that oil. That's looks brand new Hasn't probably ran but a couple hours. This was bad. These things set out in the weather And they tend just to go bad setting outside I mean, I've had I have two portables and I've had one problem with any of them Here I am. I've made multiple videos over these things just breaking left and right So on auto it's automatically starting. So that's obviously a problem If I remember correctly, this was something we had problems with before it was It must not be sensing that it has power So let's go in here and edit see if we can or debug See what we got inputs 246 utility so it knows it has utility. So why an auto position did it want to start? So we got a problem there I wouldn't need to go through and double check all these right here digital inputs Got one two three four five six seven eight each one of those zeros and ones one means on it means or zero means off That's telling you what's going on. So that's your input outputs We should be nothing Which is what we got Displays just the display of the board itself So it lights them all up and then quiet test. I Don't like quiet tests. I think causes more problems when it's worth So the question is why does it want to? See look at that Now I go to auto and it doesn't want to start It shouldn't have tried to start to begin with so Do we have a fluke thing going on? Why did it try to start? Sometimes you're just really wonder what the deal is with these things They do kooky dumb stuff like this. Let's go to alarm log Little oil pressure that happened recently January if the clock's accurate the oil again in November And then the battery So it's been having some issues. It wouldn't surprise me if the bad of the oil pressure switch is bad We'll have to put a gauge on here to find out for certain Let's go ahead and run it manual Oil pressure, okay, so a little oil pressure. I think I've done a video on this once before It's not rocket science. We've got a little pressure switch right here on the side and Basically builds up pressure and it closes out a little switch If it's got oil, it should be able to build up pressure And then I'll give it to you. So let's go grab my gauge And see if we can check the oil pressure and if it's good That's a junk switch now. This doesn't get much more generic than this. I've got a little tape housing here with my hose with my fittings and That's gonna screw right on to a oil pressure gauge something you'd see on a lawnmower or something It's made in China China, so Let's go over here and See if this thing works see you probably get a fancy one with a little thing on the back of it you just kind of plug into it or something and But you know this this usually works pretty good. It's generic Basically, oh to your auto zone store if there's your homeowner doing it yourself I think I would just go ahead and change the switch, but I Like to test and verify before I just replace something and go ahead and pull those wires off that thread Looks pretty good size, but it should fit It's a lot more Material here when I need I chopped that off a long time ago and Yeah So let's get on there Got these awesome pliers that everybody hates because they don't own them And here's the baby ones the baby ones work even better yet. See they're nice and small See I've got generic Generic wrenches here these have a tendency to round things See I just I prefer these If you don't like it, I don't give a shit. These actually give you down pressure And I can grab a hold of things and all that now it might leak a little bit And it may not Theoretically the oil should be at the bottom Of the engine obviously, it's not kind of crappy design Should have made it so everything Drains down to the engine, but unfortunately they didn't So we'll try to just stick that up in there See if they was smart they would have put this on a spot so that it would Drain straight down, but instead what they did is they just did whatever was convenient on the milling process and Then a pockets oil there. I think Chevy 4.3 liter had something stupid like that And see then you're about ready to break this stupid Thing here. I need to maybe get get a new Hose for this thing. I don't like I said, I don't do these stupid things anymore Hardly ever I don't enjoy it anymore. It's fun when I was bored because all I was doing residential and light commercial And I needed something to do that was funner than what I was doing because it gets boring after a while the same old things So that's why I got into the generator stuff problem is if you're not gonna go all in and You're gonna, you know Go full bore on it. It's not worth doing If you're not gonna do it right Okay, so we are going to the opposition hit enter to acknowledge So the problem is the gauge or the switch the switch is your problem There's your problem Yippie-skippy. I don't have one You know I'm used to stocking things but Yeah, I think what I'm gonna do is get me some copper and then Yeah, that's what we're gonna do is get these switch No sense of doing a whole lot of anything right this moment And clean all that crap up and we come back to the rest of the service, but that's that's what's going on simple as that Rocket science didn't have to get the book out now. We could check it with a meter See if it's having Is it a problem with the wire? So let's go ahead and check that just to make certain that it's not a problem with just the wiring So let's go ahead and check resistance right there it's We got another meter works We go down here to this it's shorted together So when it starts it's gonna open So in theory if you left this open it would run Because that's shorted together There you go So if I wanted to be a nice guy I could leave that off there They're not the way till the part comes That's what's gonna be because if anything would go wrong They would blame that all on you so I'm not doing it. So we'll go ahead and put that back together Just like that And we will order a new switch and that'd be nice and simple to change there we go All right, so let's go get a paper towel Like I said, I got sick last night after throwing up a lot better But that's freezing cold all the other stuff. I usually have perfect attendance in school and I never miss work All right, let's go ahead and get some of that wiped back up. I don't like leaving things a mess I wouldn't be happy if it was my generator and so I left it all a mess like I just doesn't show respect for somebody's Equipment, you know So, yep got the excess a little bit extra there Oil levels were fine. I don't even really think it needs a tune-up. It's just bad switch Yeah, now if we put it manual There goes a little oil pressure Yep, so that's the problem So it's back to the way it was chances are you know most oil switches and stuff I mean, it's just an extra set of precaution if your oil level is fine, whatever but When we got to play by the rules We'll play by the rules. So That's gonna wrap this one up guys. We'll come back and change that oil switch however long it takes to get it I gotta get a information off the generator so we can match that up but yeah that's what it is and Bam take a picture so they know what they're looking for when they're going to buy it or order it whatever and Good deal