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Dan Bear Kelley

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To recap... I rebuilt my carb. while I had the carb off, I prepped to paint. In scraping, I found a pin-hole leak in the water jacket cover on my M. So, I replaced the water jacket cover. I put everything back together, and the tractor ran like garbage. So, I took the carburetor off and rebuilt it again. Still ran like garbage.


So, today I took the fuel filter off, expecting it to be full of rust. No rust! Hmm. The screen looked clean, almost factory new. Hmm. Open the petcock on the tank to flush a little sediment out of the bottom of the tank. Nothing!


Wait a moment. Nothing! Look in the top of the tank. Empty! OK!!! So, I've been trying to get the tractor to run on fumes! No wonder it ran like garbage!


Dain Bramaged!!!!
 
Great story and nothing unusual to me. You feel dumb but happy at the same time that the problem is solved.
 
I did something like that. Getting SP swather ready for harvest. Tank was nearly empty on gas so went and got couple gallons from fuel tank. Started right up, ran for a little bit then let out a black cloud of smoke and died, wouldn't restart. Gas can was filled from deisel tank. Had to drain the tank and lines before it would start. BTDT
 
If you have zero memory it is even easier to run on empty! My F300 had a lot of crud in the bottom of the tank when I bought it - as a stop gap measure to removing/cleaning/treating the tank as we all know we should - I installed a 2" long piece of rubber hose to keep the intake above the crud layer until I could take the time... three months later the 300 stopped running, dipped the tank nah I've got gas 2" worth - must be ignition problem...pulled would not start. I messed around part time for weeks before I rembered the 2' extension, poured in some gas and it ran fine. Goosh I miss my mind. Dick Davis
 
Don't know yet. I had to go to town to get some things. So, I got a 5 gal can and a 2-1/2 gal can of gas. I was able to add a bit of sta-bil to each gas can before filling them. We'll see, as soon as I can get back to the garage. Gotta work tomorrow, of all the luck. Probably, I'll find out Saturday. :)
 
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