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  • No paperwork for maintenance on the Onan Generator provided.

    How to change the oil after the first 20 hours?

  • #2
    Welcome to the forum Smith. Which Onan generator model do you own.

    Jim
    Jim and Ginnie
    2024 Solitude 310GK
    GDRV Technical Forum Moderator
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    • #3
      We also didn't get a paper version of the owner's manual for our generator. Got a nicely packaged CD instead. . . my laptop doesn't have a CD player! Was able to download a .pdf version from the Onan website.
      John
      2018 Momentum 395M
      2018 Ram 3500 Dually
      Every day is a Saturday, but with no lawn to mow.

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      • #4
        I took a picture of the label to get the correct model number. Then went to Onan web site and drilled down to the manuals download section. Got a pdf version. If you haven't changed the oil on an Onan generator before you will find the oil drain valve is quite a bit different from most oil drain valves. I didn't realize this and ended up dumping a lot of oil, took me several days to get cleaned up properly. If I would have just found that valve it would have gone a lot better.

        On my Momentum there is a generator page on the one control unit, I was able to "reset" the oil change alert there.

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