SOURCE: COLEMAN 5500 GENERATOR. IVE HAD IT 3 YEARS,
Gasoline goes stale after sitting a while and makes starting hard. Three years worth, it's more like jelly! You need to clean the tank, lines, filter, and carburetor. Run it for a while on a little fresh fuel after cleaning, then let it run out of fuel. That will remove most of the fuel from the carburetor. When you want to run it again, add whatever fuel you need, but allow it to run dry again. That's not prefect, but workable.
SOURCE: i have a coleman vertex
was the smoke from the two cycle engine or was it the windings in the generator electrically burning, have you checked your breaker on the unit?
SOURCE: I have a Coleman Powermate 5500 Generator. It is
This engine was not built with quiet in mind, it was built to be cheap. upgrading the exhaust is your best bet and likely the cheapest. Talk to a small engine shop about the possibility of using a muffler from an ATV.
Super Trap makes a fantastic muffler, if it will fit your application (most do). A link has been provided at the end. When you are looking at the various options, you will notice that a rating in db units. Reducing noise by 3db is half the original noise level.
if you can, go with the SuperTrapp. If still noisy (probably won't be), then add on the resonator as well. Downside to using aftermarket is that you will have an exhaust stack / system that sticks out the side of the generator. Upside is that you will be able to think quietly about how much the exhaust sticks out.
And no, I don't have any connection with Jack's, they are just the first hit that came up. Now that you know that something is available, you can do more research on it.
http://www.jackssmallengines.com/Quietmuf_index.html
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