I hope I can explain this properly, but from what I feel this is a miss fire.
We got hit hard with snow. I had the tractor running with the snowblower with no issues, as I always do.
Then shortly after, another snow storm. With a 1/4 tank, I went to get more diesel gas (only one place to get diesel here) and filled her up.
I did two things here, one I feel I did wrong. (block heater is always plugged in)
I turned the key on to get the instruments lights up so I can see the gas tank dial go up as I filled the tank. The glow plug light was on at the start, but I waited to fill the tank. I didn't turn the key off and back on, meaning I started the tractor after filling the tank instead of turning it off and back on to get the glow plug light on to warm up, then turn it on.
When I turned over the tractor it didn't start. I then realized what I did. Turn the key off and on, let the glow plug light go on and waited til it was off and started the tractor. She started up no problem and idle was fine.
After a dozen minutes of warm up, I revved her up and I felt a couple of small poof like sounds. Like it was miss firing. I've heard this before, cranking the idle when I think the engine wasn't warm. So I figured it was the same and this usually goes away. I ended up snow blowing for a while, killed a quarter tank, and she intermittently miss fired (that poof sound if I can describe that correctly) a lot of the time. I could see the idler needle moving like it was missing a hit. But back to low idle, no problem. just high idle or when she is forcing maybe?
Did I make a mistake cranking the engine after waiting too long for the glow plug? Is that a thing? 300 hours never had issues with it. I really like my tractor and would not like to cause damage to it.
So two things happened. What I did above, and filling her up with 3/4 of diesel gas. Was this shitty gas? I do not know, but I've never had this problem with diesel gas from that place I get it.
Any advice would be appreciated. But I will have to use my tractor for snow again tomorrow, as we got hit hard with snow.
I'll check my fuel filter see if dirty
I'd rather not drain my diesel gas - but I'll do it if I have to for diagnosis. But its -20 out there, and I do not have a heated garage!
We got hit hard with snow. I had the tractor running with the snowblower with no issues, as I always do.
Then shortly after, another snow storm. With a 1/4 tank, I went to get more diesel gas (only one place to get diesel here) and filled her up.
I did two things here, one I feel I did wrong. (block heater is always plugged in)
I turned the key on to get the instruments lights up so I can see the gas tank dial go up as I filled the tank. The glow plug light was on at the start, but I waited to fill the tank. I didn't turn the key off and back on, meaning I started the tractor after filling the tank instead of turning it off and back on to get the glow plug light on to warm up, then turn it on.
When I turned over the tractor it didn't start. I then realized what I did. Turn the key off and on, let the glow plug light go on and waited til it was off and started the tractor. She started up no problem and idle was fine.
After a dozen minutes of warm up, I revved her up and I felt a couple of small poof like sounds. Like it was miss firing. I've heard this before, cranking the idle when I think the engine wasn't warm. So I figured it was the same and this usually goes away. I ended up snow blowing for a while, killed a quarter tank, and she intermittently miss fired (that poof sound if I can describe that correctly) a lot of the time. I could see the idler needle moving like it was missing a hit. But back to low idle, no problem. just high idle or when she is forcing maybe?
Did I make a mistake cranking the engine after waiting too long for the glow plug? Is that a thing? 300 hours never had issues with it. I really like my tractor and would not like to cause damage to it.
So two things happened. What I did above, and filling her up with 3/4 of diesel gas. Was this shitty gas? I do not know, but I've never had this problem with diesel gas from that place I get it.
Any advice would be appreciated. But I will have to use my tractor for snow again tomorrow, as we got hit hard with snow.
I'll check my fuel filter see if dirty
I'd rather not drain my diesel gas - but I'll do it if I have to for diagnosis. But its -20 out there, and I do not have a heated garage!