Hello, well after what seems like a long
winter, I was finally able to un-winterize my
boat and generator and
work on it. I followed the
advice of Lepke above. Here is what happened. I started the generator and let it warm up for about 5 minutes, use an oil sucker to pull the oil thru the dipstick as pulling the drain
plug makes a huge mess. As to oil was coming up the tube you could see definite particles of sludge in the tube. After getting as much oil as I could thru the dipstick, I pulled the oil
plug and drained the rest of the oil. Replaced
oil filter and oil, restarted for 30 minutes. Repeated the process of sucking the oil out, pulling drain plug and replaced filter, new oil. I have now ran this generator over 4 hours with no issues. Problem fixed!! Thanks everyone for your
advice and help on
forums such as this. Take Care, safe
boating.