Caterpillar parts

[Scrubcadet10]

Sounds about right due to the head nut and his pissing off other countries with his tariffs.

But I the choke is something that Cat did before they quit selling low end generators if what I found is correct.

16955-ZE1-000
It fits

 

[Scrubcadet10]

Success

 

[StarTech]

I assume that means you have the choke resolved.

On the fuel fitting this is what I have now crossed.

 

[Scrubcadet10]

yessir got a choke cable as well, just waiting for a recoil assembly to be delivered, then i can actually diagnose this unit

 

[Scrubcadet10]

Well i finally got this basket case assembled so I can diagnose it.
Shes surging bad, but it's weird, pulling the choke has very little affect on the surge, it will surge up until get to almost full choke, then it will start blowing black smoke and running rich. There's no sweet spot to stop the surge, so that makes me think , maybe a governor or load issue, for the heck of it I disconnected the wires coming from the generator head and restarted it, issue persisted.
I also removed the governor link and did the throttle by hand, any less than 1/2 throttle and no choke, she dies...
This problem has occured in the carburetor the customer installed, one I installed with new gaskets.
I'm thinking of opening the carb up again and enlarging the jets to see if that gives any improvement, but on the other hand, I don't think it will since the choke never gets rid of the surge, it goes from surging to chugging rich with no in between.
Spark Plug looks like a lean burn.

 

[StarTech]

It might be a spark plug or coil problem. I had a Briggs 31 that about drove me crazy until it dawn the only thing I hadn't changed was the spark plug.

 

[Scrubcadet10]

It might be a spark plug or coil problem. I had a Briggs 31 that about drove me crazy until it dawn the only thing I hadn't changed was the spark plug.

I put a new NGK in it, since it had a Torch.
I'll put spark tester on it and see what the sparks doing.

 

[Auto Doc's]

Well i finally got this basket case assembled so I can diagnose it.
Shes surging bad, but it's weird, pulling the choke has very little affect on the surge, it will surge up until get to almost full choke, then it will start blowing black smoke and running rich. There's no sweet spot to stop the surge, so that makes me think , maybe a governor or load issue, for the heck of it I disconnected the wires coming from the generator head and restarted it, issue persisted.
I also removed the governor link and did the throttle by hand, any less than 1/2 throttle and no choke, she dies...
This problem has occured in the carburetor the customer installed, one I installed with new gaskets.
I'm thinking of opening the carb up again and enlarging the jets to see if that gives any improvement, but on the other hand, I don't think it will since the choke never gets rid of the surge, it goes from surging to chugging rich with no in between.
Spark Plug looks like a lean burn.

Hi Scrubcadet10,

Check out James Condon and his generator repair videos online. He tackles some pretty interesting carburetor surge problems.