Richard
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- Joined
- Apr 6, 2000
- Messages
- 4,813
- Location
- Knoxville, TN
- Tractor
- International 1066 Full sized JCB Loader/Backhoe and a John Deere 430 to mow with
I’m not a mechanical genius, nor am I a mechanical dunce. All I could do here was laugh at myself.
The starter on Brutus conked out, needed new solenoid. I spent 2 hours trying to get the goober out. To get to the far bolt, I had maybe 3 inches of room to turn a wrench, so I was turning the nut a tiny bit at a time. BUT, to do this, I had to remove the fuel filter which was directly overhead of the offending nut. Since the fuel filter was directly overhead, I had a constant drip of diesel on my hands as I was removing the starter /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif
I took the fuel filter off and figured, since I was so close, I’ll just replace it with a new one and make it all snappy clean. (I also discovered why they invented sediment bowls). Anyway, starter off and fixed.. went back to put back together and wa-la.. I was ready for a 2 hour fight to install starter and it went back together in about 20 minutes, just “clicked” into place where I spent 2 hours wrestling it out the other day. I was happy as a bug, now just tighten all down, re-wire and put new filter back together and I’m done...
Wrong.
The new filter (which was the SAME EXACT number as the old filter) would not fit. What’s up? Upshot and butchering some terminology.. the “outlet” hole on the new filter was say, 1 inch in diameter but the outlet hold on the OLD filter was maybe 3 inches. When I put the new one on, there is a metal “ring” above it, that hits and clashes with the smaller diameter hole. Yesterday I went to SEVEN different places to see if anyone had the “right” filter (dealer is hour away in other direction). All came down to “this” filter and I was dumbfounded. They even made comments on how common this filter is.
Being rather hard headed, I went back to the scene of my toils, dressed in pre-dieseled clothing so that I would not mind another bath as much.. and thought.. “maybe there is an adapter on this” ??
No adapter.
Fine. Well, being rather cynical, I just KNEW that the dealer would have the “new style” filter rather than this “old” style filter, soooooooo what to do?
I spent the next 25 minutes taking the entire filter assembly off Brutus. I figure I’ll just take the dang thing to the dealer and let them see my issues.
It was THEN that the light went off in my head. Hmm..aren’t those little doohickeys odd looking? Hmm..isn’t there supposed to be a gasket here? Hmmm, I wonder why I have this metal lip pointing the way I do?
A short story made even LONGER... /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif it seems the top “sheet metal” of the OLD filter came off and was stuck to the top of the assembly. The reason the hole on the old style filter was so wide, was because it had no top!! Since the top was stuck to the filter assembly, I was trying to stack another top UNDER the old one... (like a Pringles potato chip).
Got out my trusty screwdriver...worked around, and POP off came this old lid and after I replaced the O ring, I happily reinstalled the entire assembly, now knowing & understanding why there was an “old” and a “new” style filter for this machine. /w3tcompact/icons/clever.gif
Now, if I could only figure out how to bleed this system to get the air out, and the fuel IN...
The starter on Brutus conked out, needed new solenoid. I spent 2 hours trying to get the goober out. To get to the far bolt, I had maybe 3 inches of room to turn a wrench, so I was turning the nut a tiny bit at a time. BUT, to do this, I had to remove the fuel filter which was directly overhead of the offending nut. Since the fuel filter was directly overhead, I had a constant drip of diesel on my hands as I was removing the starter /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif
I took the fuel filter off and figured, since I was so close, I’ll just replace it with a new one and make it all snappy clean. (I also discovered why they invented sediment bowls). Anyway, starter off and fixed.. went back to put back together and wa-la.. I was ready for a 2 hour fight to install starter and it went back together in about 20 minutes, just “clicked” into place where I spent 2 hours wrestling it out the other day. I was happy as a bug, now just tighten all down, re-wire and put new filter back together and I’m done...
Wrong.
The new filter (which was the SAME EXACT number as the old filter) would not fit. What’s up? Upshot and butchering some terminology.. the “outlet” hole on the new filter was say, 1 inch in diameter but the outlet hold on the OLD filter was maybe 3 inches. When I put the new one on, there is a metal “ring” above it, that hits and clashes with the smaller diameter hole. Yesterday I went to SEVEN different places to see if anyone had the “right” filter (dealer is hour away in other direction). All came down to “this” filter and I was dumbfounded. They even made comments on how common this filter is.
Being rather hard headed, I went back to the scene of my toils, dressed in pre-dieseled clothing so that I would not mind another bath as much.. and thought.. “maybe there is an adapter on this” ??
No adapter.
Fine. Well, being rather cynical, I just KNEW that the dealer would have the “new style” filter rather than this “old” style filter, soooooooo what to do?
I spent the next 25 minutes taking the entire filter assembly off Brutus. I figure I’ll just take the dang thing to the dealer and let them see my issues.
It was THEN that the light went off in my head. Hmm..aren’t those little doohickeys odd looking? Hmm..isn’t there supposed to be a gasket here? Hmmm, I wonder why I have this metal lip pointing the way I do?
A short story made even LONGER... /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif it seems the top “sheet metal” of the OLD filter came off and was stuck to the top of the assembly. The reason the hole on the old style filter was so wide, was because it had no top!! Since the top was stuck to the filter assembly, I was trying to stack another top UNDER the old one... (like a Pringles potato chip).
Got out my trusty screwdriver...worked around, and POP off came this old lid and after I replaced the O ring, I happily reinstalled the entire assembly, now knowing & understanding why there was an “old” and a “new” style filter for this machine. /w3tcompact/icons/clever.gif
Now, if I could only figure out how to bleed this system to get the air out, and the fuel IN...