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Michael Price

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I was driving the 484 today and it got weak, just had a loss of power. I had a 1/4 tank of fuel the last time the gauge worked. I got back up to the house in it and looked in the tank and seen about 5 inches in there. There was bubbles in the injector return lines. I wouldnt think with 5" in the tank it would suck air. I wanted to let it get low because I need to pull the rear fenders off.
 
We had a 584 and we always had a problem of getting spider/bugs in our tank and plugging the line right where it comes out of the tank. we would take an air hose and blow back thru the line that we took off at the fuel filter. It would work for a while until the bugs would settle back to the line and we would have to do it again in a couple months. We finally figured out that the spiders would crawl in the fuel nozzle from our over head tank and build a nest and then you would pump them right in not knowing. If you don't use the fuel tank/nozzle very often, they will help themselves.
 
Hi Michael, the 484 and like models with the saddle tanks will not work well with low fuel in the tanks especially if you go up a hill. Some problems, gravity feed and no inline fuel pump, junk in the bottom of the tank and the equalizing line between the two tanks becomes clogged. Drain the tank by taking the shut off valves out of the bottom of both sides of the tank and blow air thru from the line at the fuel filter back to the tank. Like the other post said bugs in the tank, My brother had the remains of a lady bug in his 684 fuel tank that caused all sorts of grief until he drained tank and blew out the lines.

JimB
 
Between the tank and fender there is that dirt, rust junk in there that swells up, like you see on alot of fertilizer equpiment. When I paint the tractor I wanted to removed the fenders and clean all that out. I guess now I will remove the tank too and blow everything out really good.
 
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