Damn Junk Chinese Generator! What a #*@!Ing POS!!

Bought this 900W 2-stroke gen from Harbor Freight for $92 shipped to my door. Should've known. Went out this morning after screwing with the thing most of the day yesterday just to get a normal, steady rpm out of it (damn EPA non-adjustable carburetor settings, as usual). Get the thing running .... and the minute you get far enough away from it to start working, it surges up & down wildly, then dies.

Well, I tuned it up REAL GOOD this morning. It was 6am & 25° out. Was in no mood for this BS!

After I calmed down I raised the fuel level & cleaned the petcock (yeah, that's quality right there on a brand new gen ... ). Runs ok now.

smitty,,,, looks like I worked on it!!!!

The $92 you paid for it wasn't to receive a working generator....oh no......
That $92 is the price paid for the calories burned off by the repair exercise and stress level of owning it!!

Think of the money saved over a health club membership!

Anytime I get something from Harbor Freight I think of it as a 1 time use item. Anything more than that is gravy. The last thing was a wet saw for doing the tile on kitchen backsplash, I think I could actually get another two projects out of that thing.

Smitty there are a good unit, a know a lot of people with them, did you change out the spark plug ?? with a NKG spark plug, that is the problem most have with that unit
that same unit is sold under a lot of different names from different company's for me that generator is way to small for anything I would need it for ......

there is a lot of post on this site about them

http://www.garagejournal.com/

That looks like the same type my wife's Wal-Mart carries. Only they are selling it for $499. My wife's sister asked me if it was a good brand. Without actually ever using one I replied, "I wouldn't trust it. But you can if you want."

Sorry you are having trouble with it. Hopefully it works better now that you worked on it.

Does that thing have a float or an metering diaphram with needle?? Yeah, sometimes those needle-lifters are bent too much or not enough...

I guess your getting ready to put on the wheel conversion kit, since you already removed 2 of the feet???

Hey smitty, you go to the garagejournal go to the " free parking " forum and look for " post your WTF pictures " It's on the second page. I spent 2 hours on there the other night going thru some of them! Their is over 100 pages! I came across some good one's, I was even going to post some on here but Richard gets mad when I do that! There is a good one on page 19,,, SMILE for the Flash, was going to e-mail it to you but didnt get around to it. Check the rat out on pg. 125 , also the lady posting the lost dog flyer on pg. 40

I just watched the video of the mouse on y-tube,,,,, its SICK!!!!! Damn cheese commericial How can I get that video on as my avatar???????? just the short clip one

Great site! I spent a few hours there last night. Got sidetracked with the "hot girls" thread.

SMITTY wrote:Great site! I spent a few hours there last night. Got sidetracked with the "hot girls" thread.

LMAO