rooferdave
Member
hi all! been a while since I have been on due to a crazy work schedule. We have been muddling through with varios issues with my loader, big lesson learned was DO NOT leave your loader parked for the summer and not pay the piper come winter! Once winter ends this bad boy is due for a ton of lovin!!!!!!!
Anyhow to my problem today first the back ground, 1976 175 b it has always been quick to fire up, this season it took a lot of cranking even in the summer when I fired it up 3-5 times. when we tried to deliver it to site it was a no start, turned out the filters were dry and there was some orange silicone substance in the 1st filter. Changed both filters and cleaned lines it ran fine, after this starting got harder and harder and we had to keep priming the system, next we changed the antisyphon valve just in front of the primary filter, still we had problems till at last no start at all. We think it was the lift pump as it is a major project and the machine is on location we purchased an afermarket inline pump and switch it on to move the diesel to the injector pump, this is located between the two filters. its a pain but it should get me through the winter. I ran it last week in about 1 degree celcius ( 33 degrees for the amercans) then we went up to 14 c for a few days then down to 21 below zero.
tried to start it friday and no diesel (or very little) in the filters and the pump will not draw fuel,
Anyhow to my problem today first the back ground, 1976 175 b it has always been quick to fire up, this season it took a lot of cranking even in the summer when I fired it up 3-5 times. when we tried to deliver it to site it was a no start, turned out the filters were dry and there was some orange silicone substance in the 1st filter. Changed both filters and cleaned lines it ran fine, after this starting got harder and harder and we had to keep priming the system, next we changed the antisyphon valve just in front of the primary filter, still we had problems till at last no start at all. We think it was the lift pump as it is a major project and the machine is on location we purchased an afermarket inline pump and switch it on to move the diesel to the injector pump, this is located between the two filters. its a pain but it should get me through the winter. I ran it last week in about 1 degree celcius ( 33 degrees for the amercans) then we went up to 14 c for a few days then down to 21 below zero.
tried to start it friday and no diesel (or very little) in the filters and the pump will not draw fuel,