Oil & Fuel Poured Water in Diesel Tank

[RalphVa]

Willfick offers a good solution. I use a kerosene siphon that I bought at TSC to transfer fuel from can to tank and have used it to siphon out the tank as well. It has a fairly large intake line (like about 3/8 to 1/2"). It's also clear plastic.

I'd just put some alcohol into the tank to help absorb some of the water. Maybe run an air line into the gallon or so of alcohol and gurgle it to help with the mixing. Then siphon that out.

Change out the fuel filter, allowing some fuel to run through the line to the filter to clean it out. Most filters will have a valve that you normally close to change out the filter. Just change it out (after refilling the tank with good diesel) and open the valve and let the line flush some with the filter out.

Think your FIL is too old and inattentive. Think he needs to find himself a safer hobby to do.

Ralph

 

[frank_f15]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( He said he had done that all the time ,he would put it in neutral push on the clutch peddle with one hand and start it up with the other to let it warm up ,only that time he forgot the neutral part.
)</font> Thus the sfety switch on most newer tractors that will not allow them to start when in gear. Very glad he was not hurt more than he was.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

("Think your FIL is too old and inattentive. Think he needs to find himself a safer hobby to do.")

My FIL is very sharp for his age and is aways outside working. You have touched on a subject we are trying to address. I am putting off fixing the L185 as long as I can. My BIL has my FIL's 8N, the main reason was to keep him off it.

My 8N and 600 need a little work to run good, something I could do in about 2 hours. However I have told my FIL they need major work just to keep him off them.

I will not let him near my 3130 since it has a FEL.

He was going to buy him a small tractor with an FEL when we decided to let him use the L185 for his garden which is flat.

The problem is he has always been rough on equipment. It was nothing for him to run his small Snapper through the corn field mowing down 9' corn stalks /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif.

But what does one do, he is very head strong and if we take the 185 away he WILL buy a 25 HP tractor with FEL.

One good thing is most of his garden is now planted in boxwoods ( planted this weekend) and I try to do most of his tractor work. So his use for a tractor is now very limited.

 

[HEC]

I know exactly what you mean about being head strong as my dad was the same way,it looks as though you are doing all you can.My dad would add fuel and change the oil and that would be it.I took out his air filter one day on his L235 to check it and I had all I could do to get it out it was so full of dirt.How that tractor ever kept running I will never know.He did alot of rototilling so it created lots of dust and I think most of it was in his air filter,and the funny part is I never heard a better sounding diesel engine than on that 235 go figure.I don't know how many thousands of hours it had on it as the hr. meter broke way back when,what a testimony for those older kubota tractors.

 

[andrewj]

Did you upset this man in some way?

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Since I have several different size tractors I decided to let my FIL use my Kubota L185 last summer for his garden and to bush hog around his small vineyard. First day he knocked my muffler off and the flasher on the fender. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. I fixed that and the next week he knocked the muffler off and ran over it with the bushhog /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. He is in his mid 80's and a good man so I told him not to worry about it I would fix it later.

He called me yesterday and told me he took a jug of water to add some to the radiator and battery...ok...then wasn't thinking and poured some in the fuel tank /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. Luckily the battery was dead and the motor would not turn over. I don't know why he tried to start it. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif


I'm thinking just drain the tank and replace the fuel filter?
Any thoughts?

Oh, also bring the tractor home /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif.
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[Farmwithjunk]

Next wed. will be 5 years since my dad died. During his latter years, he did things that I never dreamed he would. He was the safest person to work around I've ever known. But as time went on, he lost the edge.

It was tough to convince him that it was time to stop dangerous chores and let me do them. (It hasn't been all that many years since he fought to make me do the same chores.)

The only fueling episode we had was relatively harmless, but it still made me say a few bad words. I had an older Echo weedeater that planned on staying around forever. Dad used it ONE TIME, for about 5 minutes. That's how long it took straight gas to sieze up a good motor. Oh well...

Kinda wish the old guy was still around to aggrevate me.

 

[JLV]

I've worked for my local sheriffs office as a deputy for the last 10 years. Around the time I started I got called to a rural residence by an aquaintance that happened upon an accident while driving by. Seems a guy's dad decided to mow his son's lawn (w/a JD lawnmower) while the son went to town for groceries. When I got there, shortly before the son returned, the father was found dead under the lawnmower, which flipped while mowing a 4' tall sidehill. I dont think I'll ever forget that son's reaction when he returned home.
Take care of your FIL.

 

[goaliedad]

You are certainly not alone in your situation. It is without a doubt the hardest thing I have ever done- telling my mother that she needed help inorder to stay in her apartment. And, that she shouldn't be driving. Luckily her car was old, and the winter weather took care of that issue. The only advice I can offer is to do everything possible to make sure your FIL is safe. Do the chores for him, but include him as much as you can. The time together will be very important to both of you. I can't imagine not being able to do for myself, but I also can't imagine getting the phne call after an accident. It certainly is strange how the roles reverse as we age. good luck- enjoy your time together. make sure it isn't cut short.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

goaliedad,
You are right and lets face it we will all be there someday.

He has not pushed the issue of fixing the tractor and his property is fairly safe for a tractor. I don't mind doing the chores for him and my son helps out. It has been good for him learning the old ways of gardening. My FIL plowed with a horse up until about 10 years ago. Now he likes to pull the horse drawn plow and cultivators behind a Wheelhorse garden tractor. When my son was small he would drive the Wheelhorse and Grandpa would work the plow. Now that he is older Grandpa drives the Wheelhorse and my son works the plow. Grandpa was set in his ways, owned a tractor and plowed with a horse...he is still set in his ways.

I tried the horse and plow one time I "GEE and HAWed" that horse all over that garden trying to plow potato's /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif;ended up in the corn /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif ; went an got the tractor /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

He is 86 and we know he won't be around to many more years so we try to humor him as much as possible and as safely as possible.

 

[KubotaSteve]

What excuse can I use for my wife then? She is only 34. She was helping me mow one day. She backs the B-7800 on a hill sideways. I tell her not to back up like that and she states that the ROPS is up and she is wearing her seatbelt. I relay to her that I appreciate her concern for safety but if at all possible I would rather she not roll the tractor just to put those safety items to use. She then proceeds to get really close to a tree, all the while the ROPS is tearing off all branches 8 feet and lower. When I tell her about tearing the branches off the tree, she replies that she will get them. On the next trip around the yard she runs over the branches and tells me she mulched them up. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
She has finally gotten the hang of mowing except for the time she got the ROPS caught in the volleyball net.