Generator push rod

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Onion69420

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I have a low hours 10k watt Dewalt generator, it's 2 years old and has maybe 20 hours on it. Had a storm a couple weeks ago and that's really the first time I used it, it ran fine. I went to start it up today, it ran poorly for 2 seconds and quit. It had gas and spark but no dice.
I took the valve cover off and the pushrod had came off the rocker arm.
I compressed the spring and put it back together and it fires right up.
The question is why did this happen and how can I prevent it from happening again?
 

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Seems they failed to torque down the rocker arms correctly in the factory.
 
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