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Re: here\'s a first, a cracked fuel filter case!
Anthony,
The same exact situation happened to me, but twice. I was rotary mowing in 5' high fields on 90+ degree days this past June and I began to smell fuel, but my concern was getting the field mowed. About an hour or so later I my tractor ran out of fuel. Here is the situation though. I am 1/2 mile from home in the bottom of this hilly field and I am an amputee (rt leg above the knee). This is not a pleasant situation as you can imagine. I finally walked back to the house and was able to get my wife to escort me me back with the truck to pull me back. When I turned on the key to start the fuel pump, I had fuel gushing from the top of the fuel bowl. I touched the bowl and noticed that I could actually pull the bowl off with the filter in it. I called up the dealer and they were great. They ordered me a new one. I got the new one on a couple of days later and went back to the same field to continue mowing so I could finish up and get paid. About 2 hours later I finished up and began to head back home when I ran out of fuel again. I actually parked in the neighbors drive(1/2 mile away) and popped the hood to see the new fuel bowl broken the same way. Now I am a bit mad because I have now lost about 15 gallons of fuel in that field and I am walking home again. My wife just shook her head and knew to leave me alone. I called up my dealers service manager and she couldn't believe it either. Did I mention that I sell these tractors, for this same dealer, well I do and I needed to get the situation fixed so I could sell them and be confident that Zetor will remedy the situation. I called Peter up at Zetor and they have had this problem and are trying to take care of it in a cost effective manor. Their fix for now is to use the Yanmar bowl, but costs them about 10 times what the defective one does. I haven't been able to test in any high grass yet, but I will. Other than this problem my tractor performs flawlessly and I have owned and sold Kioti and Kubota to compare it to.
Anthony,
The same exact situation happened to me, but twice. I was rotary mowing in 5' high fields on 90+ degree days this past June and I began to smell fuel, but my concern was getting the field mowed. About an hour or so later I my tractor ran out of fuel. Here is the situation though. I am 1/2 mile from home in the bottom of this hilly field and I am an amputee (rt leg above the knee). This is not a pleasant situation as you can imagine. I finally walked back to the house and was able to get my wife to escort me me back with the truck to pull me back. When I turned on the key to start the fuel pump, I had fuel gushing from the top of the fuel bowl. I touched the bowl and noticed that I could actually pull the bowl off with the filter in it. I called up the dealer and they were great. They ordered me a new one. I got the new one on a couple of days later and went back to the same field to continue mowing so I could finish up and get paid. About 2 hours later I finished up and began to head back home when I ran out of fuel again. I actually parked in the neighbors drive(1/2 mile away) and popped the hood to see the new fuel bowl broken the same way. Now I am a bit mad because I have now lost about 15 gallons of fuel in that field and I am walking home again. My wife just shook her head and knew to leave me alone. I called up my dealers service manager and she couldn't believe it either. Did I mention that I sell these tractors, for this same dealer, well I do and I needed to get the situation fixed so I could sell them and be confident that Zetor will remedy the situation. I called Peter up at Zetor and they have had this problem and are trying to take care of it in a cost effective manor. Their fix for now is to use the Yanmar bowl, but costs them about 10 times what the defective one does. I haven't been able to test in any high grass yet, but I will. Other than this problem my tractor performs flawlessly and I have owned and sold Kioti and Kubota to compare it to.
