Hello folks. I hope everyone has had a wonderful winter season and all is doing well.
What brings me to the forum today is the result of me being an idiot! About 2 weeks ago, I was out at the property digging stumps and noticed when I would push or pull a stump, my RPMs would go from 1800-1900 to 1400-1500. When I would leave off pressure, it would go back to the higher numbers. I never noticed this before and honestly had no idea why it was doing that, but kept trying to get the last stump out.
About 5-10 minutes later, the machine started misfiring and then turned off. I looked down at the fuel gauge and while it was still moving back and forth in the green area, it must have lost suction because of the angle I was on and lost its prime. Needless to say, even after filling it up with fresh diesel, it would not start and I figured because it was run so low that the fuel filter was plugged solid.
Fast forward 2 weeks later after finally getting a filter, my dad and I went out to get everything working again. He has worked on many diesel machines before, but it took us almost 3 hours to get this thing primed. Once we finally got it working, he decided to do a little bit of cleanup and ended up using it for about 4 hours.
As he was using the machine, he did not notice any misfires, rough idling, etc., but he did say he felt like the machine was underpowered. He said it runs fine medium idled, but when you bump it up to 1800-1900, it doesn't have the umph like it used to. One thing we did not do was clean out the sediment bowl. It did have dirt in it, but it didn't look to be packed. Looking back, I should have cleaned it out regardless.
Now to my question. Do you all have any ideas what could be the issue? Could there still be air in the system? Could it be the electric fuel pump not having enough pressure and needing to be replaced?
Thanks all!
What brings me to the forum today is the result of me being an idiot! About 2 weeks ago, I was out at the property digging stumps and noticed when I would push or pull a stump, my RPMs would go from 1800-1900 to 1400-1500. When I would leave off pressure, it would go back to the higher numbers. I never noticed this before and honestly had no idea why it was doing that, but kept trying to get the last stump out.
About 5-10 minutes later, the machine started misfiring and then turned off. I looked down at the fuel gauge and while it was still moving back and forth in the green area, it must have lost suction because of the angle I was on and lost its prime. Needless to say, even after filling it up with fresh diesel, it would not start and I figured because it was run so low that the fuel filter was plugged solid.
Fast forward 2 weeks later after finally getting a filter, my dad and I went out to get everything working again. He has worked on many diesel machines before, but it took us almost 3 hours to get this thing primed. Once we finally got it working, he decided to do a little bit of cleanup and ended up using it for about 4 hours.
As he was using the machine, he did not notice any misfires, rough idling, etc., but he did say he felt like the machine was underpowered. He said it runs fine medium idled, but when you bump it up to 1800-1900, it doesn't have the umph like it used to. One thing we did not do was clean out the sediment bowl. It did have dirt in it, but it didn't look to be packed. Looking back, I should have cleaned it out regardless.
Now to my question. Do you all have any ideas what could be the issue? Could there still be air in the system? Could it be the electric fuel pump not having enough pressure and needing to be replaced?
Thanks all!
