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Frozen Tractor -21*C

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Michael Soldan

12-13-2005 17:53:11




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My friend phoned last night about 10 to say he had been blowing snow and thought he had run out of fuel. He put more fuel in the tank and couldn't get it to start. He asked me if I would stop around and put the battery charger on it and see if I could bleed the lines and get it going. It is a David Brown 1200. Well the first thing I did was put some methyl hydrate into the fuel tank. I tried the starter and it spun over but smoked a little and offered no more. I went to my place and chored and then took my magnetic block heater down and put it on the side of the block. About three hours later I tried and after some cranking thick white smoke started coming and then darker and darker and a few pops and she started to run on her own. I let it run for almost an hour, and went into town and got 5 gallons of winter diesel and put in it. I am sure he never ran out of fuel, I think it just gelled up, froze up and wouldn't go until I got some heat into the block. I told him to put a gallon of gasoline in with the diesel if it isn't winter diesel, that'll stop the gelling..anyway he ordered a tank of winter diesel from the supplier this aft....and confessing truly..I ran my tractor out of fuel on Saturday when I was cleaning out the barn..luckily the tractor was easy to get restarted when I dumped fuel in it. Sometimes we get in a hurry doing things and just forget..anyway I am glad I could help him out...Mike in Exeter Ontario

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Kmiller

12-13-2005 18:15:15




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 Re: Frozen Tractor -21*C in reply to Michael Soldan, 12-13-2005 17:53:11  
Mike,

Don't feel too bad about running it out of fuel. About 5 yrs ago, my dad was using his tractor to clean out a new pond we dug before it filled up with water. He ran it out of diesel right in the bottom of the pond late one afternoon, then he went home and called me to tell me I needed to fix it. He's never really figured out how to bleed it properly, the injector pump has a port on the back he forgets about.

By the time he called me, it was 5pm and I was at work 70 miles away, with rain in the forecast. By the time I got there, it was starting to sprinkle. I had my wife sit up at the edge of the pond with the headlights of the truck shining on me. I got the lines bled and got it running again standing in the mud in the bottom of the pond. By the next morning, it was about 3 ft deep!

I remind him of that anytime he needs me to work on his tractor for him... ;-)

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