EddieWalker
Epic Contributor
My 37hp Century tractor is losing power. My first thought is to change the fuel filter and blow out the fuel lines. I'm also wondering if my aftermarket electric fuel pump is putting out enough psi. I'll have to buy a gauge to measure that.
This kind of started last year when I gave up on my wiring and ripped everything out. I ran all new wires just to what I felt was important. Key to the starter. Alternator and electric fuel pump. My glow plugs are powered off of a button that I hold in and count to ten before starting and for the first time in a very long time, it starts every time I want to use it. Instead of a wire to the solenoid that turns the tractor off, I ran a manual choke cable to it. Push it in to turn off the engine, pull it out to start it.
Could I have overlooked something electronic that could cause a loss of power?
Last year, I noticed that I had trouble getting up to RPM while bush hogging. Once I was at 2500, I had plenty of power to mow, but when I hit something or bogged down the engine, I had to stop, push in the clutch and wait for my RPM's to build back up again before mowing. Yesterday, it started out that way, but I had to keep going slower and slower to keep the RPM's up while mowing, then it got so bad that just turning too tight would bog the engine down. I was in my lowers of low gears when I finished up the area I was mowing and not sure if I could make it back to the house, but then I disengaged the PTO for the mower and I had plenty of power to drive back.
What am I missing? or what else should I be looking at?
Thank you
This kind of started last year when I gave up on my wiring and ripped everything out. I ran all new wires just to what I felt was important. Key to the starter. Alternator and electric fuel pump. My glow plugs are powered off of a button that I hold in and count to ten before starting and for the first time in a very long time, it starts every time I want to use it. Instead of a wire to the solenoid that turns the tractor off, I ran a manual choke cable to it. Push it in to turn off the engine, pull it out to start it.
Could I have overlooked something electronic that could cause a loss of power?
Last year, I noticed that I had trouble getting up to RPM while bush hogging. Once I was at 2500, I had plenty of power to mow, but when I hit something or bogged down the engine, I had to stop, push in the clutch and wait for my RPM's to build back up again before mowing. Yesterday, it started out that way, but I had to keep going slower and slower to keep the RPM's up while mowing, then it got so bad that just turning too tight would bog the engine down. I was in my lowers of low gears when I finished up the area I was mowing and not sure if I could make it back to the house, but then I disengaged the PTO for the mower and I had plenty of power to drive back.
What am I missing? or what else should I be looking at?
Thank you