. I had a little trouble bleeding the system. I started out bleeding the filter and cracking the line at the pump. I pulled out the glow plugs and without compression spun it over. No luck, I couldn't get fuel to the injectors. I wound up removing the lines and the fittings that screw in to the top of the pump. There is a spring and a plunger. When I lifted the plunger air and fuel started seeping out. I reinstalled the fittings and lines, spun it over again and soon saw fuel mist coming out the glow plug ports. I installed the glow plugs and tried again, just got smoke. I used the dreaded ether, but just as short of a burst as I could. She fired up but it was short lived as the wires started smoking and burning. I shut it down but it was too late, the wiring is toasted. I completely disconnected all electrical except the starter and fired it up again. It smoked about 30 seconds and cleared and run like a champ. I let it warm up completely, worked the lift( no load) and shifted through the gears. Everything seems to work, except the eletrical. I put a can of Sea Foam in the hydraulic system as it was nasty when I drained/cleaned the screen. I will rum it about 10 hours an see how the fluid looks. May wind up changing it again. I still have plenty of work left with cleaning/painting the fenders and such. More to come.
idea of having an auxiliary low pressure alarm to annunciate low oil pressure "loud and audible", so I devised a plan to use the "normally closed" pressure sender signal to switch on/off tractor horn as indication of low pressure. It actually worked quite well after I installed a cut off switch so the darn horn would not go off during preheating the engine. As I was improving the installation I managed to short out the pressure sender unit , $25 mistake, as they say " no good deed will ever go unpunished"
