woodlandfarms
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- Los Angeles / SW Washington
- Tractor
- PowerTrac 1850, Kubota RTV x900
I guess living in the PNW I should just expect this, but last night filled the beast up, this AM, started it, ran for 20 seconds and died. Right off the bat I knew what it was. Such a bummer.
Drained the water, ran into town and got a new filter, some Diesel Red and White and headed home.
The issue is with my storage system for diesel. I am going to post it in the fuel thread but it suffice to say my bung isn't as tight as I would like (take it where you want ;-)
But FYI to anyone who goes through this.... Here are the steps.
If you are AR throw all your diesel away, drain and shop vac the tank. I am not. I have lived on a farm and know that diesel does seperate and most of the time you can make it work. So skip a bit ahead to the filters... If you are not AR, here is how I did it.
So for me it was as follows
I first unscrewed both fuel filters on the Deutz. The NAPA filter was full of water, and so was the primary screen. I had 2 plastic cups the party kind. I let the injectors drain back out of the filter holder (nearly 3 cups of diesel and water mix) and the secondary filter was taking too long so I unhooked the fuel hose and let it drain until I was sure it was red (off-road diesel).
Then off to NAPA. new filter, a bottle of RED Diesel and White Diesel additave (Red is for water removal, white is a conditioner). Back home I filled the new filter with half RED and half clean diesel and screwed it on. I put all the hoses back, dumped some RED into the tank along with WHITE and then cranked, and cranked, and cranked, and recharged the battery (mine as well, went in and had some lunch) then came out and cranked again and it slowly caught. let it idle then took it out to play. Seems like I got that issue resolved.
I am going to purchase on of those MR FILTERS as I see this as a re-occurring issue.
Hope this helps someone.
Carl
Drained the water, ran into town and got a new filter, some Diesel Red and White and headed home.
The issue is with my storage system for diesel. I am going to post it in the fuel thread but it suffice to say my bung isn't as tight as I would like (take it where you want ;-)
But FYI to anyone who goes through this.... Here are the steps.
If you are AR throw all your diesel away, drain and shop vac the tank. I am not. I have lived on a farm and know that diesel does seperate and most of the time you can make it work. So skip a bit ahead to the filters... If you are not AR, here is how I did it.
So for me it was as follows
I first unscrewed both fuel filters on the Deutz. The NAPA filter was full of water, and so was the primary screen. I had 2 plastic cups the party kind. I let the injectors drain back out of the filter holder (nearly 3 cups of diesel and water mix) and the secondary filter was taking too long so I unhooked the fuel hose and let it drain until I was sure it was red (off-road diesel).
Then off to NAPA. new filter, a bottle of RED Diesel and White Diesel additave (Red is for water removal, white is a conditioner). Back home I filled the new filter with half RED and half clean diesel and screwed it on. I put all the hoses back, dumped some RED into the tank along with WHITE and then cranked, and cranked, and cranked, and recharged the battery (mine as well, went in and had some lunch) then came out and cranked again and it slowly caught. let it idle then took it out to play. Seems like I got that issue resolved.
I am going to purchase on of those MR FILTERS as I see this as a re-occurring issue.
Hope this helps someone.
Carl
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