Richard
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- Knoxville, TN
- Tractor
- International 1066 Full sized JCB Loader/Backhoe and a John Deere 430 to mow with
Put a new injection pump on an International 444.
Installed the fuel input line, 4 output lines, throttle.....
Removed the lower air bleed screw and cranked over several times. After a brief moment, I got fuel spurting out of the hole. Not knowing if I should keep going until I get fuel GUSHING out of the lower hole, I replaced screw and then removed the upper bleeder screw (which I then promptly dropped into the grass in the dark )
I never did get fuel spurting out of the upper bleeder. I thought maybe I had TOO much air inside it, so removed three of the four output lines (which go directly to the injectors)
I got a teeny weeny bit of dripping out of ONE of them during this cranking process.
Should I have poured fuel inside the inlet first?
Since this is gravity fed, should I let it sit there for a little while to let it fill up as fast as the gravity will allow? (it's now got no choice but to sit over night)
This has me a bit perplexed. I would have figured that we'd get fuel shooting halfway across the field after several revolutions of the engine. I cranked it WAY more than several revolutions and still... lower bleed has spurts and upper bleed has nothing.
Any thoughts?
(I will say that I'm beginning to wonder if the drive assembly (chain) might be broken...we never checked for that while it was apart since it dictated taking more things apart)
Installed the fuel input line, 4 output lines, throttle.....
Removed the lower air bleed screw and cranked over several times. After a brief moment, I got fuel spurting out of the hole. Not knowing if I should keep going until I get fuel GUSHING out of the lower hole, I replaced screw and then removed the upper bleeder screw (which I then promptly dropped into the grass in the dark )
I never did get fuel spurting out of the upper bleeder. I thought maybe I had TOO much air inside it, so removed three of the four output lines (which go directly to the injectors)
I got a teeny weeny bit of dripping out of ONE of them during this cranking process.
Should I have poured fuel inside the inlet first?
Since this is gravity fed, should I let it sit there for a little while to let it fill up as fast as the gravity will allow? (it's now got no choice but to sit over night)
This has me a bit perplexed. I would have figured that we'd get fuel shooting halfway across the field after several revolutions of the engine. I cranked it WAY more than several revolutions and still... lower bleed has spurts and upper bleed has nothing.
Any thoughts?
(I will say that I'm beginning to wonder if the drive assembly (chain) might be broken...we never checked for that while it was apart since it dictated taking more things apart)