If you have smelled an odor of gasoline in your garage and followed your nose to your generator, you'll likely see that the source of the leak is around the carburetor. The generator is a...

When I first started dabbling into fixing generators, I had no idea what I was really looking at when it came to the components in the generator's alternator. I saw a lot of wires and electronic...

Have you ever heard that you can start a generator with a drill? There are actually two ways that a drill can help you to start a generator (engine and AVR): To spin the nut under the...

Perhaps the most frustrating thing that can happen when your power goes out is to fire up your generator without a problem and then find that it isn’t producing any electricity.  The engine is...

When the power comes back on and you put your generator away for long-term storage it's pretty easy to forget all about it until the next time your lights go out. That might be a year or more. At...

When the power goes out and it’s time to fire up your trusty generator, you know it’s going to start on the first pull because you’ve properly maintained it on a monthly basis,...