MichaelRaasch
New Member
I just bought this 2004 Sea Ray 260 and the generator wouldn't start so I pulled the spark plugs and did a compression test. One cylinder had 0 compression and the other had 210 psi. The spark plug with zero compression looked like it had water on it and the spark was sparking to the side. Anyway I looked in the oil filler cap of the cylinder that had 210 psi and noticed that the push rod was not under the rocker arm. I have not taken off the valve covers yet but I am assuming that all of them are not under the rockers. So my question is...how could this have happened. The generator only has 150 hours on it. Its a Kohler 5E and has the Kawasaki FD501D V-Twin. I'm hoping that I can just replace the pushrods with the gen in place. Looking for anyone with experience with this motor.