Today, for the first time in more than nine months, Mark started up the generator…and it ran. And ran and ran and ran. My laptop is running on generator power even as I type this.
The culprit, at the end of this long epic battle to find the needle in the haystack? The fuel filter. In the filter, which cleans the diesel before it reaches the generator, a blockage had formed in the filter housing that was creating a vapor lock and preventing fuel from getting to the generator.
In other words, the fuel filter needed to be taken off, disassembled and put back together.
Cost of a Racor fuel filter: $80
Cost of figuring out this problem for nine months: $1300
Cost of a new generator: $15,000
Cost of telling previous repair guy that we didn’t actually have to shell out for a new generator? Yeah…exactly.
Who We Are
- Felicia Schneiderhan
- Duluth, Minnesota
- The daughter of a nun caught by a fisherman, Felicia Schneiderhan grew up on the Mississippi River, lived on a boat downtown Chicago, and now explores the North Woods of Lake Superior with her husband and son. She teaches literature and writes all kinds of random stuff, some of which she is paid for.
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