Tipped tractor wont start

oliver28472 · Mar 23, 2006

Glad to hear you are OK. Dad was notorious for turning tractors over but somehow never got hurt. On priming you may try posting here on the Kubota forum to get an answer specific to your tractor. I bet someone there will help. If not, you start at the tank and end at the injectors. Try to start in between. At the tank you may have a shut off valve that has one or two phillips head bleed screws. Open until no air comes out then close, try to start. The open the fitting on the line that goes into the injection pump from the shut off valve untill just fuel comes out, tighten the fitting and try to start. If that doesn't work, loosen a fitting at an injector, crank until you get only air then tighten that fitting. This is kind of generic for most diesels. Let us know.

turnkey4099 · Mar 23, 2006

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I will need to find the manual on the internet some where to find out how to prime the fuel line I have no idea. At least this info gives me something to try. It was over on its side for about 45 minutes. Oil had fallen out of the engine via rubber tube.

About how it happened I am new at riding tractors. It was my fourth time riding one.
I had the front tray a little too high & i was on very slight hill going side ways with a slasher attached on the back. I could feel the tractor was leaning over too much. I stopped the tractor & tried to reverse because i didnt want to go any further, once i reversed a little it started falling I jumped off. Not sure if it was the best thing to do but i didnt want to hold on to see what happens. As i was on the ground & the tractor feel the roll bar slightly clipped my ankle only suffering very minor bruising. I consider myself very lucky. I think my biggest mistake was I didnt lower the front tray while driving.

Thanks for the info.....to date. )</font>

In the "feels like it is tipping" case, stop and drop the bucket and/or any other implement you are carrying to the ground. That should stop the roll-over and give you a chance to figure out a way out of there.

Harry K

JerryG · Mar 23, 2006

One more point. If it gets tipsy, always turn down hill. Most times that will prevent rollover.

PineRidge · Mar 23, 2006

Best to keep the bucket as close to the ground as you can when moving, especially with a load. It keeps the center of gravity low helping to prevent what happened to you.

Glad you came through all right, tractors can be fixed, sometimes we can't. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Marlowe · Mar 24, 2006

I'm just wondering if you got it started again. My bet is that the glow plugs were fouled by the oil in the cylinders which would hamper a cold start. That could explain why it re-cranked initially but refused to crank since the incident after it cooled down. So, what do you say? Report in, please.

Tom

johnecool · Apr 2, 2006

Sorry it has taken so long to re post my reply.

I have managed to start the tractor!! yay /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif The fix was to bleed the fuel line (as suggested by a few poeple) it wasn't flowing properly because there was air in it.

Thanks to all who posted. I have learnt my lesson.

John.