sourwood
Member
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2009
- Messages
- 26
- Location
- North Carolina
- Tractor
- Farmtrac 665DTC, Zetor 7711, Long 460, Long 310, Satoh S370D, Iseki 4100F, Case 380CK, John Deere 420C
Here is the story so far:
About two weeks ago my father's Farmtrac 665 died. I knew something was gravely wrong at that point, so I pulled the filters and the primary fuel filter was completely rusty inside from passing water through it. I mean rusty as filled full of it.
I drained the fuel tank, dried it out, and then check for rust in the tank. None.
I filled the diesel filters full of fuel, followed the bleeding procedure in the manual(which is the most useless piece of garbage I've ever seen in 30 years of turning a wrench).
The tractor ran fine for 30 minutes. Then, coming uphill it sputtered, shut down and died.
I discovered that the fuel contamination of water was coming from a local gas station- Spur 60 in the Blue Ridge area of Georgia.
How did I discover this ? A hydgrometer showed water contamination in all of the fuel we got from that service station.
When I discovered that, I disposed via recycling the old watery diesel, got clean containers, got known good fuel(checked it for water/gasoline/etc) and then cleaned the tank, cleaned the tank's strainer, and replaced both fuel filters yet again. I then bled the system for air at the filters, bled it at the injectors. I checked the gas cap to see if the vent was screwed up, left the gas cap loose, and tried to run it with the cap off to see if that was the cause- none of that made any difference.
It still dies going uphill and it has gotten worse. The odd thing is when it dies, it refuses to restart. Drain a little diesel from the filter, guess what ? It starts up.
I'm at a loss of what to tell my elderly father- I can't explain 30 minutes of running fine around the farm and good idle, and then poof- it all goes out the window when you go up even a slight incline.
I would think that if enough rust/trash/water got into the system to cause injector pump problems- it wouldn't run well at all or would leak or do something more heinous than 30 minutes of teasing. Am I wrong ?
I can't imagine that if there is something in the lines- like rust or trash- that it would run well for 30 minutes. Am I wrong ?
Any suggestions on what could be causing this ?
Is there anyway to flush the lines, flush the pump, and clean the injectors ? The service manual has very vague instructions on all this, elucidated on by some poor shmuck from Bangalore who was working for 35 cents an hour and being fed benzedrine to keep up the work product.
About two weeks ago my father's Farmtrac 665 died. I knew something was gravely wrong at that point, so I pulled the filters and the primary fuel filter was completely rusty inside from passing water through it. I mean rusty as filled full of it.
I drained the fuel tank, dried it out, and then check for rust in the tank. None.
I filled the diesel filters full of fuel, followed the bleeding procedure in the manual(which is the most useless piece of garbage I've ever seen in 30 years of turning a wrench).
The tractor ran fine for 30 minutes. Then, coming uphill it sputtered, shut down and died.
I discovered that the fuel contamination of water was coming from a local gas station- Spur 60 in the Blue Ridge area of Georgia.
How did I discover this ? A hydgrometer showed water contamination in all of the fuel we got from that service station.
When I discovered that, I disposed via recycling the old watery diesel, got clean containers, got known good fuel(checked it for water/gasoline/etc) and then cleaned the tank, cleaned the tank's strainer, and replaced both fuel filters yet again. I then bled the system for air at the filters, bled it at the injectors. I checked the gas cap to see if the vent was screwed up, left the gas cap loose, and tried to run it with the cap off to see if that was the cause- none of that made any difference.
It still dies going uphill and it has gotten worse. The odd thing is when it dies, it refuses to restart. Drain a little diesel from the filter, guess what ? It starts up.
I'm at a loss of what to tell my elderly father- I can't explain 30 minutes of running fine around the farm and good idle, and then poof- it all goes out the window when you go up even a slight incline.
I would think that if enough rust/trash/water got into the system to cause injector pump problems- it wouldn't run well at all or would leak or do something more heinous than 30 minutes of teasing. Am I wrong ?
I can't imagine that if there is something in the lines- like rust or trash- that it would run well for 30 minutes. Am I wrong ?
Any suggestions on what could be causing this ?
Is there anyway to flush the lines, flush the pump, and clean the injectors ? The service manual has very vague instructions on all this, elucidated on by some poor shmuck from Bangalore who was working for 35 cents an hour and being fed benzedrine to keep up the work product.