Phillip w
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- Joined
- Jun 21, 2017
- Messages
- 779
- Location
- whiting ks
- Tractor
- allis Chalmers 185 and massey ferguson 1531
There seems to be alot of guy struggling getting and keeping their tractors running in this cold. Here is another example of patience and hanging in there. I believe I got a hold of either summer diesel or junk fuel. I had trouble about a week ago, put a fuel filter on and added some supplement. Couple days later below zero and more trouble. I bought what I knew was winter blend and more supplement. Got the massey going (it finally made it to the twenties) and let it run about an hour and fifteen minutes. Fiddled with the allis. It would run, suck the fuel filter dry and die. Got a new fuel filter even though I just replaced filter a week ago. Got it running and let it run an hour and half. The took allis for a spin and it did good. Added 10 gallons of winter fuel and some more power service. Working good now. The first 20-30 minutrd I had that allis running, she looped and sputtered and what not. You would have thought it had bad injectors, fuel filter plugging, fuel system sucking air or something. Just had to let it run and do its thing. I post this to help folks cause cold weather and junk fuel can really give you a fit. You'll think something is really wrong and it is just cold weather and or junk fuel.