Does this happen here?

showcrop · Dec 6, 2019

My wife sent this video to our daughter who works at Harvard. It reminded me of new posters who have checked everything on their tractor and then ask for guidance in repairing one of the most obscure components, since it can't possibly be something simple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAgYMSUUYAM

Billy Shafer · Dec 6, 2019

I have made more than one service call. To find out they were out of fuel.

JMOR · Dec 6, 2019

(quoted from post at 09:19:07 12/06/19) My wife sent this video to our daughter who works at Harvard. It reminded me of new posters who have checked everything on their tractor and then ask for guidance in repairing one of the most obscure components, since it can't possibly be something simple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAgYMSUUYAM

ep, they are here! More among the lesser experienced.

Traditional Farmer · Dec 6, 2019

Must be human nature, people seem to want to check out the worst case first.I've bought a lot of tractors over the years that the sellers firmly believed that the tractor had a major problem when in reality it was a simple cheap fix.Like a CA Allis I bought seller insisted it need new rings,got it home fired it up had a miss,two of the wires were crossed,swapped wires couldn't have asked for a better running tractor.

Determined · Dec 6, 2019

(quoted from post at 08:29:39 12/06/19) I have made more than one service call. To find out they were out of fuel.

A company that was next door to my shop at the airport did ground support at the main airport terminal, they constantly had employees driving tugs, beltloaders and other equipment back and forth.

All to often they had to send out a mechanic to rescue an idiot that ran out of fuel and cranked the engine over until the battery was low.

The owner finally got mad and had every single fuel gauge disabled.

His idea was instead of an employee thinking I have a 1/4 tank and I can probably make it they had no idea how much fuel was in the tank and had to fuel up before leaving.

Unconventional but it did solve the problem.

coshoo · Dec 6, 2019

Guilty as charged. Was getting diesel in the oil in my Oliver 550, so took off the injector pump instead of checking the lift pump diaphragm first. Don't know what I was thinking, didn't know what to look for once I got the injector pump off anyhow, other than that there wasn't a bunch of fuel hanging around where pump met engine. Did manage to get it back on OK, without fouling up the timing, so no harm done in the long run.

Had a 6.2 diesel GMC van- thought the injector pump was going south, took it to my very smart (and very honest) mechanic, expecting to get a new pump for many hundred dollars. He called in a half hour, return line wasn't draining, no charge. I sure wish that guy hadn't retired.

mrslesq · Dec 6, 2019

After mowing a lot of hay, with my 4020 I put it on the blower in the late afternoon so I could chop a few loads before milking. The fuel gauge said there was enough fuel to blow a few loads. Of course it quit shortly there after. So I pulled it out of the way so I could look at it the next day. The fuel tank was dry. The fuel gauge had quit working that day. Oops!

paul · Dec 6, 2019

My combine has 3 sprockets that look like that ?clutch slips?. It was a tough year! Will need to get 2 slip clutches off shafts, and an eccentric off and ordered. To get through this tough harvest, I found a new used idler sprocket off an old combine and a new chain put on tight caught the nubs enough to finish up harvest. Obviously I was sacrificing the new chain on the old sprockets, but it got it done.

Now if I remember by August to work on all that......

Fun thread, I hate to resemble it so much tho!

Paul

jacksun65 · Dec 6, 2019

Sister was staying with me between Husbands, was to lazy to carry groceries around back so she backed up to front door. Went to start car wouldn't start. Boyfriend looked
at it couldn't get it to start. I came home after two weeks on the road said I would look at it in the morning. Turned on key said quarter of a tank crawled under car
tapped on gas tank, went and got five gallons poured it in. Cranked it twice and it started. Told her your not in florida we have hills in ky all the fuel was in the
front of the tank.

SARG · Dec 6, 2019

True confessions >>> There was a day I was mowing a field about a mile from the house and I ran out of fuel AND it happened because... I was reading the gas gauge backwards. I recall looking at it several times thinking .... "How could it seemingly be starving for fuel when the tank shows full."
For several weeks prior I had been having big issues with bad fuel clogging the filter and automatically thought that was occurring again.
Beyond explanation..... but the wife thought it was funny.

jeffcat · Dec 6, 2019

Must be an exception. I keep the gauge in the Expedition no lower than 1/3 and
usually up at 3/4. Running the tank low all of the time screws up your fuel
pump ok . Now the ex WITCH calls me one day and says the car wound not run.
When I get to where she was the fuel gauge is not only on E it is below E in
the parked position. Don't think there were even vapors in the tank. I told
her E ment empty....not eventually.

Keith True · Dec 6, 2019

I've seen a lot of this.Some people think,If you have wiring trouble,unhook a few and pull some out,see if that helps.I remember a friend changing a timing chain in a 283 Chevy
because it was popping and banging when trying to start.It had a cracked distributer cap.years ago I went to a neighbor that had changed plugs and wires in his Lull forklift,I
think it was a 770 Oliver turned around backwards.But,he was careful,he went by the book and didn't go screwing things up before he looked for help.The book was very clear,it had
a map of the plug wires and was easy to follow.With all the backfiring going on while cranking I thought I would check to make sure the distributer was correctly timed.I watched
the rotor,and realized it was turning the opposite way the book said.I wired the cap the opposite of what the book said and it fired right up.I can't remember if that was the
Oliver shop manual or if it was printed by Lull.Oliver guys would know if that was a mistake by Oliver back then.

jon f mn · Dec 6, 2019

Just last night I ran my 400
out of fuel. Blew a fuel line
a couple days ago and didn't
turn on the fuel. Was just
using it light idling but it
must have run an hour on what
is in the filters

37chief · Dec 6, 2019

I ran my JD 401B out of fuel one time. I carried a can of fuel to the tractor. Up hill I might add. bleed the fuel lines. It would not start. Added starting fluid. It made a noise I never want to hear again. Never doing that again. Wore the battery down. got another battery. Up hill again to the tractor. It finally started. I never want to go through that again. That field may be on the top of a Indian burial ground. I have had nothing but bad luck there. One year I filled my tank with 50% gasoline, and ruined the pump. Another year is where my tractor coasted down the field to a canyon with out me, but stopped on the edge. Someone else did the mowing this year. Stan

oldtanker · Dec 6, 2019

(quoted from post at 08:32:53 12/06/19) Sister was staying with me between Husbands, was to lazy to carry groceries around back so she backed up to front door. Went to start car wouldn't start. Boyfriend looked
at it couldn't get it to start. I came home after two weeks on the road said I would look at it in the morning. Turned on key said quarter of a tank crawled under car
tapped on gas tank, went and got five gallons poured it in. Cranked it twice and it started. Told her your not in florida we have hills in ky all the fuel was in the
front of the tank.

I was working as a mechanic. Boss sent me to get his son's car with the rollback. I knew his son. One of these kids who would buy a pop and snack with a 5 and put what ever was left in the gas tank (in those days about 2.50). He'd been to a friends house the night before. He had parked on a hill and then run the battery down trying to start it. Got it back to the shop and unloaded it, had a hunch, toss the battery booster on it and it fired right up. Man did I ever give the boss garbage about his own kid doing stuff like that......

Rick

TimV · Dec 6, 2019

Of course--it happens to most everyone sooner or later. Loaned my little pull-behind backhoe to a friend who called a few hours later to say he had been running it when suddenly it died and wouldn't start. Went over to find that he was digging at a slight slant (hardly uncommon with backhoes) and the engine oil was JUST low enough to trip the low-oil sensor, which he didn't realize the engine had, and shut it down. Added about an ounce of oil and it started right back up, much to his chagrin! Got it back level, added a bit more to bring it up well into the "full" band on the dipstick to avoid a repeat performance, and he finished the project with no further mishaps.

Wheat47 · Dec 6, 2019

Customer called....OMC swather won't start. I asked are you sure it's full of fuel?
Yes filled it yesterday. Should be good.
So I went out. Hit the side of the tank, sounds hollow.
Grabbed a stick, not even a drop on the stick. Was bone dry.
Fortunately for the guy, it was close to our shop, I think
I charged him a 1/2 hour and a few miles.

Another time I was working on a railroad section truck, with the hydraulic
crane mounted behind the cab. I was all over that truck, doing various things.
Went to move it, no go. Checked various things, power everywhere but where I need it.
After a while, I called a buddy. He asked were you in the crane control station?
Yes of course. He said check the emergency stop switch there.
Sure enough, I'd leaned over the controls and pushed the switch!!

Southern Ray · Dec 6, 2019

One day I was preparing to do some disking.
I gassed up the M, checked all the fluids and cranked her up.
Set out to hook up the disk and half way there it quit.
Got down and begin to look all around checking everything until I saw the valve on the sediment bowl was closed.

504 · Dec 6, 2019

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2x4 · Dec 7, 2019

Customer called me on a Saturday morning; Stihl saw locked up! Borrowed from his boss. Worried he'd used wrong gas mixture & ruined saw. Drove all the way across the county. I unlocked the chain brake for him. Should've thought to tell'm that on the phone but his being rattled, rattled me!

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