Trever B
New member
Hello all, new to the forum. The post is long, but I wanted to explain my problem as thorouhgly as I could.
I have a 1976 Ford 1600 2cyl diesel that I have been renting from a good friend at work to prepare 2 acres of land for seeding lawn grass. I have put approximately 14 hrs on the tractor so far. When I went to start the tractor up a couple of weeks ago, it would not start. It will crank, but will not fire. It was running fine up until then, full power, good idle. I have checked/cleaned several items to no avail. The fuel tank was ス full. The fuel filter housing/filter was cleaned and replaced/ bleed according to the owner痴 manual.
The tractor acted like it was getting no fuel. In the previous startings there was always a little smoke coming from the exhaust stack during cranking. Now while cranking, there was no smoke. I decided to check the fuel delivery from the injection pump, so while cranking, my friend cracked the fuel line at the pump and nothing was coming out of either port at the pump.
After finding this forum, which is great by the way, I decided to investigate further. With an exploded view of the injection pump in hand, I pulled the rear cover off. All parts and pieces were in place, nothing was broken. I did noticed however, that there was very little oil. I know the this topic has been discussed on this forum, man searches and I don稚 believe there was the proper amount of oil in the pump, maybe a little as half. I proceeded to removed the side cover to expose the springs, pinion etc. Again, all was in place and nothing broken. No oil was in this reservoir at all. Is this normal?
Next, I decided (well actually my friend) to turn the motor over by hand and watch things 杜ove? What I observed next is what I believe to be the issue here. When the camshaft pushes up on the roller and the spring assembly compresses, it does not return. The springs seem to be sticking. Therefore there is no ability to push fuel out of the pump, through the fuel lines and into the injector.
Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? Does this make any sense? Is there something I can do with the injection pump on the motor? I really would like to get this tractor running again for my friend without taking the pump off the motor.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Trever
I have a 1976 Ford 1600 2cyl diesel that I have been renting from a good friend at work to prepare 2 acres of land for seeding lawn grass. I have put approximately 14 hrs on the tractor so far. When I went to start the tractor up a couple of weeks ago, it would not start. It will crank, but will not fire. It was running fine up until then, full power, good idle. I have checked/cleaned several items to no avail. The fuel tank was ス full. The fuel filter housing/filter was cleaned and replaced/ bleed according to the owner痴 manual.
The tractor acted like it was getting no fuel. In the previous startings there was always a little smoke coming from the exhaust stack during cranking. Now while cranking, there was no smoke. I decided to check the fuel delivery from the injection pump, so while cranking, my friend cracked the fuel line at the pump and nothing was coming out of either port at the pump.
After finding this forum, which is great by the way, I decided to investigate further. With an exploded view of the injection pump in hand, I pulled the rear cover off. All parts and pieces were in place, nothing was broken. I did noticed however, that there was very little oil. I know the this topic has been discussed on this forum, man searches and I don稚 believe there was the proper amount of oil in the pump, maybe a little as half. I proceeded to removed the side cover to expose the springs, pinion etc. Again, all was in place and nothing broken. No oil was in this reservoir at all. Is this normal?
Next, I decided (well actually my friend) to turn the motor over by hand and watch things 杜ove? What I observed next is what I believe to be the issue here. When the camshaft pushes up on the roller and the spring assembly compresses, it does not return. The springs seem to be sticking. Therefore there is no ability to push fuel out of the pump, through the fuel lines and into the injector.
Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? Does this make any sense? Is there something I can do with the injection pump on the motor? I really would like to get this tractor running again for my friend without taking the pump off the motor.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Trever