DIY! Replace the Carburetor on an Onan 5500 Marquis Gold Generator

Does your Onan generator take a long time to start? Does it stop running after you release the Start button? Does it run smoothly for 30 seconds before it stalls, or does it stop running after 30 minutes?

If you are experiencing any of these issues, it might be rectified with a simple DIY fix, or it might be a very expensive repair by an authorized Onan dealer. How do you know and who will you trust to diagnose and fix such a problem? Most importantly, can you repair it yourself?

In this video, I share my journey troubleshooting the cause of the premature shutdown along of my Onan Marquis Gold 5500 Generator in my 2001 Fleetwood 32h Bounder, and my efforts at fixing it myself. I am not a mechanic, so I have depended on my life experiences and the Internet to learn about similar issues with gasoline combustion engines, and more specifically, this Onan Marquis Gold 5500 generator.

This is the second of three videos. In my first video, I share my diagnostic efforts and what I learned during this process of test and elimination. In this, my second video, I share the rather challenging process of installing a new carburetor and the failed results. In my third video, I perform some additional DIY troubleshooting and fixes until I have exhausted everything that I can do myself without the use of sophisticated electrical diagnostics. I hope that in my final video, the RV repair shop will allow me to include some video showing what it took to ultimately repair my Onan 5500 Marquis Gold generator so that you can learn from my harrowing experience.

Thank you for watching my videos and for your comments and suggestions!