Strange smoke

[Pete Masterson]

Change the air filter. I, too, got a "your bus is on fire" scare when
excessive black smoke was coming from the generator exhaust. Turns
out, when the air filter gets clogged up, it causes inefficient
combustion in the engine, generating a TON of black smoke. Once
you've replaced the air filter, open the lower exhaust exit, start
the generator, and be prepared for a huge pile of soot to blow out
(something for you to clean up...). You might prefer to locate
yourself where the soot-pile won't present a difficult problem. It
blows a fair way from the exhaust exit. (i.e. don't park next to a
white car.)

Pete Masterson
'95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42
aeonix1@...
On the road at



On Oct 25, 2008, at 9:37 PM, brad barton wrote:

> Don't know if anyone has had this problem, but my generator
> apparently "lugged down" for a while.
> Yes, I should've used glow plugs, but it had been facing the sun at
> College Station for hours. It started quickly, then I walked back
> to the thermostat and toggled through all three zones to change the
> settings from heat to cool. It took a minute or two to get things
> started. I went inside the building to take care of business, when
> someone burst into the restroom and told me my bus was smoking.
> Diesel smoke black as coal was coming out of the generator roof
> exhaust.
> I immediately shut off the first AC at the cockpit and the
> generator smoothed out, sped up and the smoke cleared. I had no
> other trouble and suppose (hope) I didn't do any damage. That has
> never happened before.
> If anyone has any thoughts.....
>
> Brad Barton 00LXiDFW bbartonwx@...