Alan_Black
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- Mar 20, 2004
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B7800 Won\'t start
Well.... either I'm doing something stupid or I'm getting off to a bad start with this tractor. I had a new B7800 delivered on Tuesday to replace by '48 8N and it's been working fine until today. It fired up this morning, I used it for about 30-45 mins, then shut it off for about 10 mins while I did something else. When I went to fire it back up, it would turn over beautifully but won't fire. I read the post here about bleeding the fuel line and I'm wondering if that is possible since I haven't touched the fuel line (only has 10 hours on it). Anyway, I thought what the heck and went back out there, loosened a bolt/plug on the side of what I think was the injector pump, fuel came out, tried to start it and it fired back up. Used it for about 15 mins again, figured I'd shut it off again and see what happened. Well.... Once again, it won't fire. Tried the same plug and no dice there. Anyone have any ideas? I'm going to call the dealer on Monday to see what's going on (unless I am doing something stupid), but in the meantime, I'd love to get the tractor out of the field and back in the garage.
This brings up a 2nd point. I've never had a diesel before, so are there any "common knowledge" items that I need to know? This seems like it should be a no brainer since a diesel is basically fuel and compression, but I'm at a loss on this one.
I should add that when I first tried to fire it up each of these times it fired for about 1-2 seconds then died out which leads me to fuel starvation???
Thanks guys....
Alan
Well.... either I'm doing something stupid or I'm getting off to a bad start with this tractor. I had a new B7800 delivered on Tuesday to replace by '48 8N and it's been working fine until today. It fired up this morning, I used it for about 30-45 mins, then shut it off for about 10 mins while I did something else. When I went to fire it back up, it would turn over beautifully but won't fire. I read the post here about bleeding the fuel line and I'm wondering if that is possible since I haven't touched the fuel line (only has 10 hours on it). Anyway, I thought what the heck and went back out there, loosened a bolt/plug on the side of what I think was the injector pump, fuel came out, tried to start it and it fired back up. Used it for about 15 mins again, figured I'd shut it off again and see what happened. Well.... Once again, it won't fire. Tried the same plug and no dice there. Anyone have any ideas? I'm going to call the dealer on Monday to see what's going on (unless I am doing something stupid), but in the meantime, I'd love to get the tractor out of the field and back in the garage.
This brings up a 2nd point. I've never had a diesel before, so are there any "common knowledge" items that I need to know? This seems like it should be a no brainer since a diesel is basically fuel and compression, but I'm at a loss on this one.
I should add that when I first tried to fire it up each of these times it fired for about 1-2 seconds then died out which leads me to fuel starvation???
Thanks guys....
Alan