Jim Hibbits
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- Aug 21, 2011
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- Tractor
- Ford 555 backhoe
I encountered a problem this summer as I was working the old Ford on moving some dirt in our hay meadow. I would stall it out, and couldn't get it to start again. I bled the injectors, hooked it up to a shop battery charger (225 amp) and got it to go doing this, but after reading the shop manual decided that the fuel transfer pump might be the problem. The manual said that, in hot weather, a worn out fuel tranfer pump might cause hard starting and loss of power due to the lower viscosity of the warm diesel fuel. The next time it quit (I stalled it out) I got a hose and sprayed down the tranfer pump section of the fuel injection pump with cool water. That did the the trick. The engine started right up. I have successfully restarted the backhoe 5 more times using this method, so my guess is that the tranfer pump needs to be replaced. Can anyone out there confirm that I have correctly diagnosed the problem?
Has anyone out there replaced a tranfer pump on the fuel injection pump on a Ford 555? If so, can the job be done by a home mechanic with no special calibrating equipment? Does this type of repair require recalibration of the fuel pump? Does anyone know where I can get step by step for performing this repair? Does anyone know where I can order the transfer pump (not a whole new fuel injection pump)?
Thanks!
Has anyone out there replaced a tranfer pump on the fuel injection pump on a Ford 555? If so, can the job be done by a home mechanic with no special calibrating equipment? Does this type of repair require recalibration of the fuel pump? Does anyone know where I can get step by step for performing this repair? Does anyone know where I can order the transfer pump (not a whole new fuel injection pump)?
Thanks!