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Originally Posted by Christina1pac
Hi all,
I took my ACE 29.3 with a Cummins 4000 gas generator to camping world for its first service at 150 hours like they suggested. Now a week later I try to start it and it won’t work. It will prime like usual and crank, but will shut off as soon as I take my finger off the crank button. Then the fault code flashes 3 times and a long pause which the manual just says “needs service.”
Any suggestions? I haven’t gone through the pain of calling the camping world service department yet.
Thanks!
Christina
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Sounds like perhaps you did not actually capture the real service fault. Per the Onan Operations manual:
Following a fault shutdown, the indicator light will repeatedly blink 3 blinks or 4 blinks at a time. Three blinks indicates a service fault. Press Stop once to cause the two-digit, second-level fault code to blink. (Pressing Stop again will stop the blinking.)
The two-digit code consists of 1, 2, 3 or 4 blinks, a brief pause, and then 1 to 9 blinks. The first set of blinks represents the tens digit and the second set of blinks the units digit of the fault code number. For example, Fault Code No. 36 appears as:
blink-blink-blink—pause—blink-blink-blink-blink-blink-blink... Four blinks indicates that cranking exceeded 15 to 20 seconds without the engine starting. Note: Fault Code Nos. 3 and 4 are first level faults. Avoid interpreting them as second-level Fault Code Nos. 33 and 44, which have not been assigned as fault codes.
Maybe the fault code will be something easily checked without returning to the CW Stealership.......if that's what you chose to do. One question is: when was the last time you ran and exercised the generator without issue?
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