Northland
Platinum Member
I have been having starting and stalling problems the past three days with my three week old B7800 (6 hours on it). The weather was very cold here (-10 F) for weeks and then warned up to 32 F and has been like that for days. I keep the B7800 in the garage with the block heater plugged in. On Saturday morning (20F) I was down to 1/4 of a tank of fuel so I topped it up with 3 week old fuel (no diesel treatment) I bought from a station the day I brought home the B7800. The B7800 ran fine for about 15 minutes then it started loosing RPM's until it finally died on me in the middle of one of my trails 1500 yards from my garage. I figured it had something to do with the new fuel I put into it. I let it sit overnight and started reading TBN posts about water/condensation in the tank/lines.
The next morning (20 F) I added some gas line anti-freeze to the tank and while the engine started and ran OK it was blowing out white smoke. I did get the tractor out to the front of the house. I went to town and bought some powerservice. That night I cleaned out the filter bowl and filter (couldn't figure out how to get the filter out of the actual bowl) with kerosene, added powerservice, topped up the tank (about a quart at most) with new diesel fuel and (as per the manual) bled the fuel line by starting it and running it for only 3o seconds prior to turning it off. I left the B7800 outside as I didn't want to be running it so much in the garage.
I went out tonight (32 F), started it, and let it warm up for 10 minutes but it ran very shaky and I could not get the RPM's up above 800 or so. I thought I would back it up into the garage and try again in the morning but the engine shut down and didn't want to start again.
Any suggestions as to how I can get past this problem would be much appreciated. Bringing it back to the dealer is a major pain as I bought it in Michigan but live in Canada.
I ordered a Mr.Funnel today and will insure I use powerservice from now on. That and I placed my 5 gallon diesel fuel container onto 2x4's to raise it off my cement garage floor.
Marko
The next morning (20 F) I added some gas line anti-freeze to the tank and while the engine started and ran OK it was blowing out white smoke. I did get the tractor out to the front of the house. I went to town and bought some powerservice. That night I cleaned out the filter bowl and filter (couldn't figure out how to get the filter out of the actual bowl) with kerosene, added powerservice, topped up the tank (about a quart at most) with new diesel fuel and (as per the manual) bled the fuel line by starting it and running it for only 3o seconds prior to turning it off. I left the B7800 outside as I didn't want to be running it so much in the garage.
I went out tonight (32 F), started it, and let it warm up for 10 minutes but it ran very shaky and I could not get the RPM's up above 800 or so. I thought I would back it up into the garage and try again in the morning but the engine shut down and didn't want to start again.
Any suggestions as to how I can get past this problem would be much appreciated. Bringing it back to the dealer is a major pain as I bought it in Michigan but live in Canada.
I ordered a Mr.Funnel today and will insure I use powerservice from now on. That and I placed my 5 gallon diesel fuel container onto 2x4's to raise it off my cement garage floor.
Marko