1020 will not crank

[AllWaysBreakinSomething]

Woa Tractor Shawn. I know you have some $$$ in your machine with all those parts. Let me know if it starts I may want to buy it

Here are a few things I learned (some the hard way)

Those diesel injection systems are sensitive to air. Really make sure you get it all out. Gravity feed the line going into the injection pump before even turning it over with the new pump. This will get air out of the seperator too. Oh yea, don't touch the rack without a professional(internal to pump, My dad learned this the hard way)

Make sure not to overheat your starter, if it's hot to your hand you have to let it cool. Otherwise you will be buying another one.

When starting hook-up battery to a running car (sure saves time and less strain on the starter)

Also a previous post about those Glow Plugs taking 30 seconds to heat up is right on.


Good luck

 

[JerryG]

JerryG- Does that $50 rebuild include winding the stator and armature? One of those was my problem - I paid $200 and includes 1 yr warranty

I don't know what all he does for that price. That is all I have ever had to pay and they have always worked great. All the shops in the area use him. The price changes as he does more work or uses more parts, but I have never heard of him charging more than $100 for anything.

 

[6sunset6]

I have a MF30E full size BH. I had terrible starting/runing problems for a while. Long story short . No screen in the lift pump , junk in the check valves. changed out lift pump to one with a screen ran for a while and then acted the same. Longer story short pulled the fuel tank and the little screen was out and a solder ball was sitting in the outlet pipe. Knew I had it fixed when the stream out of the bleeder on the injector pump went 10 feet and the engine had not even started yet. Has run great ever since 6 years I think.