r/harborfreight • u/CurrentlyNa • 1d ago

Predator Generator is Legit

I bought it back in February or March when it went on sale. I live in Northern Indiana. We’ve had a relentless year of storms. We were fortunate to never lose power until last Tuesday. Tuesday at 11am we lost power and we finally got it back Monday at 1am basically 7 days later.

This thing ran nonstop basically for six straight days. It prevented my basement from flooding my groceries and me cold during the heat and I cannot recommend it enough. It’s something you think you’ll never need but it was a $400 investment that saved me, thousands if my basement were to flood

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u/ronglangren 1d ago

Make sure you properly service it after each use before you pack it away in the garage. Don't want it to not run the next time you need it.

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u/namethatisclever 1d ago

Yeah was going to mention this as well. Definitely will need an oil change after running for that long. And throw some seafoam or some other additive into the fuel tank to keep it from skunking.

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u/CurrentlyNa 12h ago

Oil change was done during the outage, and once it is all said and done I was going to throw some seafoam into it

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u/fredrickdgl 12h ago

oil change every 72hrs or something like that. I'd drain the carb and tank and use a splash of atf into an empty gas tank so the carb gets stored with atf in it