Thank you so much James. I knew you would be able to bring my generator back from the dead. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

I was the repair agent for Kipor in Cairns Australia. Sometimes they take forever to start after a carb service. Biggest fault they had was being overloaded and blowing inverter boards. Most were not worth repairing. Used properly they are a great generator.

The drain line on the bottom of the carburetor. If you rotate it upside down. Then open the drain screw. You can see the fuel level of the float bowl. You can use this trick while the engine is running.

Watching your videos are therapeutic for me for some reason... Good on you getting that little guy running again.. One thing to mention, I've noticed in my years that the fan you have on that space heater could introduce a lot of THD in to the system when measuring.. Was still less than 3%, but sometimes those fans are "noisy."

Got mine in a box in pieces. A friend said if you can’t fix it throw it away. Carb float needle was damaged by old fuel. Lucky to get new carb. Ran fine. Used synthetic oil since it only holds about a cup full. Drain carb and empty all fuel out by turning genny upside down if not used.

For a 10 year old generator that looks pristine.

the shortest hose you could buy, 5 feet......now you have 4 feet 10 inches left over! Thank you James

Real detective going on this one. I could have worked on that for a month, and likely it would never have worked right. Learn something from almost every single video. 👍

Beautiful fix - that generator even SOUNDED like a Honda!

Am learning more and more about these small engines. Your systematic evaluation and "treatments" of the problems becomes more and more valuable. I have a 5K watt generator that needs an overhaul and I am ALMOST ready to tackle the beast!1 LOL. Maybe I need to watch just a FEW more of your excellent videos. MANY THANKS!!

Kipor had US operations based in salt lake City Utah but they closed down many years ago. Aftermarket parts can still be had since many of them If not all of them are made overseas. I did a video on the 3000w model they're actually Not too bad I would say on the same level as a champion. Great fix again James!

Morning James! Those little powerhouses can be finicky... Another one lives

Tube may have shrunk over time thus causing the original issue. Good fix as always

i will look for new videos every day for each time that i watch your videos i learn something new so i will for ever watch all that i can to learn more thanks a lot Sir

Kipor is going back to Canada. Nice job.

Nuts to the like button! WHERE'S THE LOVE BUTTON? What a nice repair and diagnostic job - another awesome video Mr. James!

Nice video and sleuthing for this machine! You had me in suspense at the end of the video, just waiting for you to apply an on-off label for the choke. LOL

Tube is short because the new carb is deeper. Thanks for all the awesome videos.

good things come from Canada...!

James do you really think that a repair shop would go to that extent to fix the carb ? Or would they say it’s not worth the effort ? A perfectly good machine would be trashed ! Your amazing ! Wish they had a James Condon in Rockland County !

For oil sucking you can usually find used but good condition suction units on ebay and the like from ambulances, they work great and go for aprox $50 shipped, makes it easy for cars and gennys alike. Love the videos, thanks for them all as theyve helped me a ton James, really appreciate it

I finally caught you in a mistake. At @35:52 you said you were going to “emit” the spring clamps, the word you needed to use was omit. Other than that a perfectly fine video. As usual.

A little bit extra. A man of understatement. Least-a-ways of no necessity of excess.

Excellent job, James. Looks like a very good machine, plus it made a great video. Thanks for sharing.

Haha. "Now it has no excuse for not running" == "Hey Murphy, check this out!"

Great job and video as usual James ! Can't wait until your next one. Take care sir.

Been waiting to see you learn to rebuild the stator. Knock out old windings, put in new paper, make new windings. Lol. I watch a little Chinese girl on youtube does motors, pumps, generators. My wife hates when I watch it. I find it interesting as hell. She does it without saying a word. She adds some text. Don't speak Chinese anyways. Lol.

Kipor - I think your subscriber now has a keeper. Excellent diagnosis again James.

Nice repair, and relatively simple and straightforward too. We'll never know for sure, but it's entirely possible that setting that needle valve properly was the only thing it needed. As to my own repair, I replaced the starter rope and used a bolt to hold the reel in. Now that part is working okay but the engine refuses to start. My next move might be to check that needle valve setting against the original in case I have a similar problem. Edit: If that doesn't work, I may try swapping the main jet into the first replacement carb which I bought and see if that works, since it did sort-of work for a while.

Another masterpiece, thanks for that! I watched from 3am this morn. James does his work so calm and collected it is so soothing to watch.

Well done as always James. Great video!

Nice little generator, James. Easy fix for the master!

Ace work as always! Go Canada, go!!

Little engines are sometimes even more finicky. Good work as always sir.

Morning James. Great video again. Good catch on that hose.

gladyou got a clean one to work on nice inverter

It's funny how much difference the air intake means. It's like that on bikes to. When you tell ppl all you did was change a filter or put the filter back in cause they deleted the element . They think your trying to screw them. I have come across this so many times in the past 45+ years I been working on motors. I could tell dozens of stories. Kid I went to school with had a snowmobile they had fixed but it wasn't quite right. I was about 14 or so. It was a 1972 - 440 panther. My uncles 399 puma was a smaller sled but was twice as fast. I said I know whats wrong. Carb set with no load. You got to set it while riding it. Back then ppl actually used to get hurt doing this. I jumped on it said I'll be right back. When I got done fine tuning it she would dangle the skis. So many mowers,small engine powered equipment come into my uncles shop with plugged or missing filters. Esp the small 2 strokers. Deleted filters then they finger up the adjustments. Don't know what happened. It just won't run right. Yeah, sure, what you touch? Countless mowers. Plugged up filter. Won't throttle up. Get it on the lift and look at it. The governor spring it stretched out 2 feet. It's wrapped around stuff to keep it wide open and the motor is screaming.

I've seen several of these little guys around me recently all nonrunning. Glad to see they are similar to the little hondas. Might pick one up to mess with if the price is right.

Well done! The detailed explanations are also greatly appreciated.

Nice job. you find the hidden problem most people assume are correct from factory.

Another great video! Great video quality! Watching all your old videos, they all really good!

Great video as always and nice work fixing that generator James!

I have a 3500 Watt China generator that's similar, and had the same problem even after cleaning, then replacing the carburetor. I spent hours tearing it down to replace the fuel pump, and it still didn't run right. So I feed it with an external gravity tank now. Runs perfect.

Very nicely done, good eye on that carborator air tube! Cheers

Nice video. I have a Kipor just like that one, just the 220v version. it has been working good for me although it takes a few pulls when it has been sitting over winter

Nice work James, sweet little generator and in very good condition.

Great troubleshooting James 😊

Awesome job finding the root cause which I’m sure was what happened with the original carb. I’m working on a 1955 Sears and Robuck trash pump that was given to me with a B&S 14FB engine. The piston was stuck on what looked like a sort of rebuild. I ordered a new piston and gaskets. Can’t wait to see how it runs. Thanks!

Brilliant video Jim and Kipor were popular generators here in the UK and often found in commercial use with CEE Form 16amp socket modification on both the 1000 & 2000w variants That was a lovely clean and well looked after machine

Nice wee generator, runs well now

spot on diagnosis Jim short connector hose from the carb to the air box that and the plugged pilot jet will give you a world of problems nicely done

excellent video and problem solving- especially explanation of the tiny spring that can take flight-

Thanks again James for a clear and in depth investigation. Good job.👍

Great job, James.

Damn, that little unit ran nicely. Chinese made. $400 but really hard to find these days.

Great video! I see the Kipor units for sale once and a while, needing repair and selling for cheap. Great to know that it seems like Honda/Honda clone parts, if needed. It looks fairly well built.

Excellent video in a properly detailed fashion....thank you

Great job James sir thank you much

I have the 2.0 version of that & a Blue(later) version of that & the yellow one has dramas with the little flapper valve(reed?) where it empties the Fuel Tank & fills the Engine up with Petrol!

Great content James. 👍 I can never upvote your videos fast enough. God bless.

Cool video..Your meticulous careful work allways seem to pay off..Good job bud

Hi James, here in the Netherlands/ Europe, Kipor’s are still on sale. Also under several private labels sold, I’ve a Scheppach labelled Inverter 2200/ 1600 watts continuous produced by Kipor (we pronounce it as: Key-poor with a short O 😄). Production is in China and it “sits” quality wise under the A brands like Honda, Yamaha but way above the real cheap stuff from China. When the box says “engineered in Germany, MRSP € 1.200,- but it sells for € 150,-, most of us know where we’re dealing with 😂. I’m not sure if they’re still produced by the same Chinese manufacturer (how could one be sure with the Chinese) and if the quality is still more or less okay. Except from a defective vacuum operated fuel pump, mine is working flawless for many years running on Aspen 4, the gas to liquid fuel. Expensive but for the few times a year it’s in use, never had fuel and/or carburator issues. Maybe the first fuel pump didn’t like it but a metal housing (new one is plastic) and have not taking it apart to see if the rubber membrane was broken. For our holiday house in rural France I’m planning a diesel generator (14.000 watts) with Automatic Transfer Switch/ Grid take-over. Got me at the European “Ritchie Brothers” auction a new Chinese Ashita with a V twin air cooled diesel engine. I hope the word hidden in this brandname doesn’t be the case 😅. Enjoying all your work/ videos, keep them coming! Cheers, André.

subscriber watching from Vancouver, Canada. Another nice step-by-step repair by James.

another great video james thank you for showing us all how to fix ower things you make it look so easy.

HEY!!!!! You DO have a pair of those anvil cutters! Good stuff!

Possible reasons the tube was too short. Additional spacer under the carb? Carbs are different heights? The tube shrunk? Wrong from the manufacturer? JIS screws, never know for sure when you are going to run into them. I keeps some bits ready.

Another one back to life!

James, maybe you still can use your load bank on 110V generators consider it should draw around 4 times less power than you have set? P=UI=U^2/R from Ohm's law. Not sure about fans and connectors, but if you have 2 times less voltage this means there will be 4 times less power on passive load.

Kinda thought you were going to reinstall the original carby. Looks like it would have been fine.

Another interesting, informative video. Thanks!

Thankyou James always interesting.

Nice work James 💯

Great work Jim... You're still have the best hands Iv'e ever seen. I see you now use micro bits or precision gauge burnishing tools for your jet servicing. Your hands move like a neuro surgeon buddy... Is the replacement carb body, slightly longer in its standoff?

Dam, another great video... from the Master Gen-Fixer....

What actually causes harmonic distortion? Some of the open frame generators you have repaired have great THD but most do not and the inverter generators as a rule have very good THD. I love your videos.

Great job as always.

Enjoyed the video. Thanks. See you next week.

I was afraid he had a bad clone carburetor I went through that with a Honda once. Thanks for the video great job.

Excellent work!

Enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing

Brilliant as ever!

As always great video and knowledge shared.

Great video. Nice small generator.

Tricky one here. Great work, excellent video!

Thankyou to the Chinese who really do make good equipment at a reasonable price.

Under an hour, you’re slacking off Jim! Only a one coffee video!

Great video as always, always learn something. I have a Honda EU2000 which, like you said, is very similar to that one. Thanks for sharing your expertise. 👍👍

Nice going, James

Thumbs up, great video, i have not seen a Kipor in Years, worked on several of them a few years ago, fixing what your fixing,had a good time getting parts myself

Nice video I love it and I learned a lot, thanks

I know this is heresy but … I really like these shorter videos. Then again, I like the longer ones too!

Great fix james

Textbook and meticulous repair. 🤗🤗.

I’d love to see some pressure washer pump rebuilds.

Nice little machine

Awesome - again and again!!!

I thought it looked a lot like the Honda, great little unit not too heavy not too loud

woow a almost clean pure sinewave wow...

That's one bright yellow little motor

A proper fix from James, as always. Could the intake air tube have shrunk after maybe being exposed to chemicals like starter fluid/carb cleaner, etc. back when the owner tried to fix it earlier in its life? Potentially, it could also have shrunk due to age.