The other day our hired hand put a couple of litres of antifreeze in the diesel tank, we sucked off about the two litres, a couple of more litres of diesel, took the tractor to fuel it up and dilute the antifreeze that may have been left. After filling, the tractor stalled, we removed the line to the aux pump and bled some more antifreeze, the diesel system is likely full of antifreeze. How do we drain the remainder out, what is the possibility of a seized pump, and would there be any nozzle damage? This 4010 has about 1500 hours on a major engine and diesel overhaul, spent more on it than the tractor value.
- Thread starter Darald
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Tx Jim
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- Coyote Flats, Texas
Too late now but you should have loosened fuel line at fitting 23 and let antifreeze drain out until you saw diesel fuel.
Cliff Nelson
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Change the filter and bleed it all the way through to the injectors to get as much anti freeze out as possible. If you can get it bled all the way, chances are it will be ok. Seized pump will show up when bleeding. It's not the first time someone has done that...
Drain all the antifreeze out and you should be OK. Older rotary style pumps are pretty forgiving. I once had a service call for a Ford 445 that wouldn't run. Customer had to use it that day (Cemetery).
So I do my usual and start by bleeding the fuel filters. Got water...
Hmm. So I pulled the supply line and turned on the tank valve. I got over a gallon of out of the fuel tank. The fuel filters only had water in them also. So I got all of the water out of the tank and filters. Should be ready to go, right? Nope. Loosened the injector lines to bleed the injectors and got water at the injectors! The pump was actually pumping the water. Drained the water out of the injection pump and lines and the tractor fired right up. This was a CAV pump. I think the clearance on a Roosa Master of that era should be similar.
Adrian
Tx Jim
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- Coyote Flats, Texas
Parts key 18 is the fuel shut off valve that fuel line attaches to.
3020/4020's had a fuel tank drain cock(parts key 19)
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