I know the basic theory behind diesels but never took courses on them and wanted to verify this before I go throwing parts.
Back story is the last two times I parked the tractor I turned the fuel off at the fuel tank. The next time I used it I forgot to turn the fuel back on and ran it empty. The first time this happened I cranked on it some and it started back up. The second time which was today, the engine just spins over.
I checked fuel at the lift pump on the side of the injection pump, theres pressure there and I took and loosened the bleeder bolts on the top of each filter and fuel came out under some pressure. But when I cracked open the hard line from the injection pump to one of the injectors after cranking on the engine there was no pressure there, a little fuel bubbled out but no real pressure.
Now correct me if I am wrong on this but being mechanical injection the injectors will not open till a certain PSI is reached on the fuel. So I am thinking the injection pump gave up the ghost and was probably caused by age and running it empty two times.
Now does this sound what it could be? I am fixing to look up the injection pump R&R in my shop manual to see if its something I want to task myself with doing. I need to get this one going again considering my '59 641 Workmaster still has yet to be fixed after replacing all the ignition components and now I have none running at the moment and this 3000 has been dependable till this.
Back story is the last two times I parked the tractor I turned the fuel off at the fuel tank. The next time I used it I forgot to turn the fuel back on and ran it empty. The first time this happened I cranked on it some and it started back up. The second time which was today, the engine just spins over.
I checked fuel at the lift pump on the side of the injection pump, theres pressure there and I took and loosened the bleeder bolts on the top of each filter and fuel came out under some pressure. But when I cracked open the hard line from the injection pump to one of the injectors after cranking on the engine there was no pressure there, a little fuel bubbled out but no real pressure.
Now correct me if I am wrong on this but being mechanical injection the injectors will not open till a certain PSI is reached on the fuel. So I am thinking the injection pump gave up the ghost and was probably caused by age and running it empty two times.
Now does this sound what it could be? I am fixing to look up the injection pump R&R in my shop manual to see if its something I want to task myself with doing. I need to get this one going again considering my '59 641 Workmaster still has yet to be fixed after replacing all the ignition components and now I have none running at the moment and this 3000 has been dependable till this.