mmranch
Gold Member
Bit of a crisis at the moment.
Plowed our road for about 6 hrs today and tractor worked fine. As I was driving back up the hill to the shop with the engine at top revs (as it had been all day), the engine started to lose power momentarily but then recovered. I switched to a lower gear and continued up the hill. I almost made it back up to the shop but then the engine lost power again and died. I was on a steep hill and blocking my driveway so I coasted back down the hill to a flatish spot off to the side.
Last time this happened, I replaced the fuel filter, bled the filter and she started fine and has been running fine for approximately 1.5 years. So I got my tools and replaced the filter down on the road. All went fine but I can't get fuel to bleed out the bleed screw. Last time, I think I simply turned the key ON and the pump ran and fuel came out (not sure if I'm remembering this right). This time no fuel with the key ON and no fuel even with the key turned to START.
During the changeout... I had both the inlet and outlet hose pinched with vise grips (just like last time) but I worry maybe I got air further in the line. Anyway, with the outlet line pinched, no fuel comes out the bleed screw. I run anti-gel all the time and have never had any freezeups.
It's getting dark and cold and I am charging the battery now and will try one more time to get fuel to show up.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Plowed our road for about 6 hrs today and tractor worked fine. As I was driving back up the hill to the shop with the engine at top revs (as it had been all day), the engine started to lose power momentarily but then recovered. I switched to a lower gear and continued up the hill. I almost made it back up to the shop but then the engine lost power again and died. I was on a steep hill and blocking my driveway so I coasted back down the hill to a flatish spot off to the side.
Last time this happened, I replaced the fuel filter, bled the filter and she started fine and has been running fine for approximately 1.5 years. So I got my tools and replaced the filter down on the road. All went fine but I can't get fuel to bleed out the bleed screw. Last time, I think I simply turned the key ON and the pump ran and fuel came out (not sure if I'm remembering this right). This time no fuel with the key ON and no fuel even with the key turned to START.
During the changeout... I had both the inlet and outlet hose pinched with vise grips (just like last time) but I worry maybe I got air further in the line. Anyway, with the outlet line pinched, no fuel comes out the bleed screw. I run anti-gel all the time and have never had any freezeups.
It's getting dark and cold and I am charging the battery now and will try one more time to get fuel to show up.
Any ideas?
Thanks!