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The solenoid has nothing to do with throttle or engine speed. It simply pulls up the stopper rod on the IP so you can get fuel to flow to the cylinders. If it does not stay up, you cannot start the set. There is no half way, it is either up or not. Diesel engines need 3 things to fire...

Sounds like you have a couple of things going on here. I think your solenoid is fine. It does sound like you have a non firing cylinder, and once it gets some heat on it it wants to run...for a bit. You'll need to do a compression test to find out if it truly does have low compression, but I...

When you start the generator, hold up on the fuel shutoff solenoid. If it remains running, then you have an electrical issue someplace. If it still shuts off then you probably have the fuel issue. Get back to us after you have run this test and we'll go from there. There are still a lot of...