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So I have been working on two IH machines. One is a 574 gas. This has sat parked pretty much for a year or so. When I first started working on it, it would start. Then the last time it would not start. It had good spark s I knew that was not it. I used my 1 quart gas tank to test if it was a gas problem. Hooked it up and he tried to start it and it fired right up. So I had my stepson there so he helped me pull the tank off so I could drain it. The tank is a boat gas tank the owner has rigged up to work. Odd how the water in the gas was not showing up in the sediment bowl but it sure did show up as I drained the tank. Got it drained and put back on and hooked up and fresh gas in and it fired right up.

The reason I had the son there was to help put the skid plate back on the TD15B that I pull to check for the oil drain plug. There are two plates under the oil pan and I did not know the small one was for the drain plug but either way it was good I pulled them both so as to clean out the leaves etc.
 
Your darn luck that you did not get crushed dropping a belly pan on a dozer of that size , you would not be the first . a friend dropped a belly pan on a 450 Case that worked in the oil patch and ended up with four broken ribs as the pan was full of packed in mud and dirt . He was lucky someone else was there to drag him and the pan out from under the dozer and get it off of him and call 911 . He told me later that he had taken all the bolts out but one ft. on and two of the back ones and was feet first in under it and buzzed the last ft. one out when the pan dropped snapping the back two bolts off swinging down and nailing him. Years back a new guy working for a company in my area was crushed by a belly pan on a D 8 while dropping it.
 
This thing had both the full belly plate plus 3 smaller plates. The 2 I pull one is about 18 inch square and the other is 4X10 inch. The bigger of the 2 is the one I needed help with getting back up. It was probably around 50LBS or so.
 
Not a dozer but when I was at the mine a guy starting his day was going to take a shield off a conveyor so he could grease it, the shield was full of rock and dropped off after getting a couple bolts out. Hit him the side the head came down broke his shoulder and landed on his leg breaking his femur bone and cutting into his leg badly. Be careful with shields like that.
 
When I first read the topic line, I thought the tractor was running on water in the biblical sense. Lol
 
we had a 6th period apprentice drop a belly pan once as a practical test. the journeyman that was with him during the test left for a few minutes. when he came back, he found the apprentice pinned by the belly pan. the only thing that saved that kids life, was the impact gun he was using was in the vertical position, and it was supporting one side of the belly pan. kid flunked test. I fired the mechanic, as he was instructed to stay with the apprentice while he was under the machine.
 
This machine has 2 smaller belly plate in the bigger one. I pull one that was 18X18 inch and about 50lbs and a smaller one that was like 4X8 inch. NO way I would pull the whole belly plate with out jacks or other such thing
 
Well it would almost seem that way the first day I worked on it. It was hard to start but did start. Then it got got to where it did not start so I started to trouble shoot it. The guy is one of those who I have to explain and then explain again as to what maybe be going on. He is us to doing this all by him self but his health does not let him any more
 
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