jiggseob
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Tractor: 1987 B6200 HST, D850 3cyl 15hp engine, Allied loader, ~2800 hours.
Against my better judgement, I loaned it to a neighbour to use the loader to move some snow and crap from his horsebarn. I don't usually loan-out stuff, but this fellow is a decent guy, and always helps everyone, so I was OK helping him. I loaded the tractor on my trailer, took it over to his place, took the ratchet straps off, and left him to it. I asked him not to worry about fueling it, I'd rather he left it empty. He did about 6 hours of work, and drove it back on the trailer. Then, he shut it off, and then filled it (from about 1/8 tank) with gasoline - I found that out later.
I went over, put the ratchet straps on and brought it home. I started it up to take it off trailer, as I started it I noted the fuel guage was at full, the fellow had filled it for me. Before I got the grease-gun on the first loader zerk, the engine started running funny, and pulled the fuel shutoff out and shut it down. Maybe a minute of running at a high-idle.
The neighbour is in his late 70's, and at this point there is nothing to gain by riling him up over an honest mistake. He really is a gem of a fellow, and I'm not even going to tell him, because he will try and pay for stuff and I don't want that.
My question is, with about a minute of running, how bad is what going to be damaged? It would have started on pure diesel, then used up the diesel in the filter and slowly cut over to 90-10 gasoline. Was the "funny running" because the 90-10 fuel was burning differently, or was it because the injection pump had turned to dust inside? Anyone have any experience with this nature of screw-up, and what it will take to make it better?
The only similar experience I have is a late-80's Volkswagen diesel fueled with gasoline, to make that better it was simply flush it and re-fill with diesel no harm done. But that was a Bosch VE Vertilier pump. The D850 Kubota pump looks like a Nippon-Denso inline pump.
Advice appreciated.
Thanks, Mathew Banack, Round Hill, Alberta, Canada
Against my better judgement, I loaned it to a neighbour to use the loader to move some snow and crap from his horsebarn. I don't usually loan-out stuff, but this fellow is a decent guy, and always helps everyone, so I was OK helping him. I loaded the tractor on my trailer, took it over to his place, took the ratchet straps off, and left him to it. I asked him not to worry about fueling it, I'd rather he left it empty. He did about 6 hours of work, and drove it back on the trailer. Then, he shut it off, and then filled it (from about 1/8 tank) with gasoline - I found that out later.
I went over, put the ratchet straps on and brought it home. I started it up to take it off trailer, as I started it I noted the fuel guage was at full, the fellow had filled it for me. Before I got the grease-gun on the first loader zerk, the engine started running funny, and pulled the fuel shutoff out and shut it down. Maybe a minute of running at a high-idle.
The neighbour is in his late 70's, and at this point there is nothing to gain by riling him up over an honest mistake. He really is a gem of a fellow, and I'm not even going to tell him, because he will try and pay for stuff and I don't want that.
My question is, with about a minute of running, how bad is what going to be damaged? It would have started on pure diesel, then used up the diesel in the filter and slowly cut over to 90-10 gasoline. Was the "funny running" because the 90-10 fuel was burning differently, or was it because the injection pump had turned to dust inside? Anyone have any experience with this nature of screw-up, and what it will take to make it better?
The only similar experience I have is a late-80's Volkswagen diesel fueled with gasoline, to make that better it was simply flush it and re-fill with diesel no harm done. But that was a Bosch VE Vertilier pump. The D850 Kubota pump looks like a Nippon-Denso inline pump.
Advice appreciated.
Thanks, Mathew Banack, Round Hill, Alberta, Canada
