Onan 4000 ky no start

[Rich Biebel]

Your problem sounds like one I have seen a couple times.

The timing is off and here is why....

The engines crankshaft is keyed to the generators rotor. The rotor is keyed to the blower wheel and the timing is triggered by that blower wheel.

Either the blower wheel moved or more likely the rotor moved on the crank.

All tapered shaft connections and the crank to rotor has a little pin to locate it. The blower wheel has a key slot and a very small key. Once it's all bolted together the taper holds it. A backfire probably happened and sheared the pin at the rotor to crank connection and it moved.

If you have good spark, fuel and good compression this is likely your problem.......It should at least try to fire with carb cleaner sprayed into carb throat cranking. If it pops back or does nothing and you confirmed the spark is good......the timing is off and one of the above 2 items moved....

Like I said I have seen it at least twice and I fix these machines for years and years.....

If it cranks and has spark, it should at least start and would shut right down if it had no AC output or a bad control board. Bad boards sometimes burn up and won't even crank.....