The rvgeeks show you how to perform the annual maintenance on an onan quiet diesel generator.
Onan diesel generator oil capacity.
Some generator users have been able to use mobil1 20 50 synthetic oil and received good results.
A four pole generator normally must be operated at 1 800 rpm to provide 60 hertz of power.
One downside to this oil is that it can get a little pricy but if you are willing to fork out a little more this is a great.
When ordering your onamax oil reference the following part numbers.
In addition to the new oil blend cummins is still offering the sae15w 40 for small diesel rv generators.
Cummins 3265336 onan sae 15w 40 oil.
Cummins onan diesel generators range from 3 2 kilowatts to 12 5 kilowatts.
Cummins manufacturers and ships gasoline and lp powered onan rv generators using sae10w 30 oil blend.
The oil tank size for this model of onan generators is 2 quarts.
However the smaller sizes use inverter technology to allow variable speed operation that raises the engine rpm as the load increases.
Change the oil filter air filter clean the spark arrestor.
Onan 5500 generator oil capacity.
Also the oil should be very diesel specific if it is a diesel powered generator.