Maarten Pleiter
New User
Hi,
Today I drove about 45min to the dealer, took a break of 15min and then drove back home with the MF97. When I wanted to take a turn on the road I reduced the throttle to about 1200rpm, but the engine stopped completely. Tried to start again but it won't fire up. After a few minutes waiting the engine started and I could drive further. But after just a few minutes I got the same problem again. Engine had no power and I had the idea that it was strangled. Took it out of gear and engine stopped also. 4-5 minutes waited and engine fired up directly within 3 seconds. But at max rpm, if it reached that, the rpm's were very irregular and could change 200-300 plus and minus. It stayed a few minutes at about 1600-1800 rpm and then plummets and died again. This all seems to look like a shortage of fuel, there was no smoke coming out of the exhaust. But we changed some things before:
Replaced the old fuel for new.
Replaced the 2 fuel filters.
Refilled the fuel tank with new diesel.
After this all, we had the engine running for several hours, without any problems. It drove some tours and I used the PTO some hours for mixing slurry. During these activities I never noticed any problems with engine power, it ran maybe for 8 hours together. I've read something about algae on the forum but I use new diesel, can't imagine that this is the cause. The fuel pump has no feeding pump, so maybe this is a solution? It should work without so maybe there is something else. Has anyone ever had the same problems with this engine and what where the solutions? Didn't check the fuel supply to the Roosamaster pump yet.
Today I drove about 45min to the dealer, took a break of 15min and then drove back home with the MF97. When I wanted to take a turn on the road I reduced the throttle to about 1200rpm, but the engine stopped completely. Tried to start again but it won't fire up. After a few minutes waiting the engine started and I could drive further. But after just a few minutes I got the same problem again. Engine had no power and I had the idea that it was strangled. Took it out of gear and engine stopped also. 4-5 minutes waited and engine fired up directly within 3 seconds. But at max rpm, if it reached that, the rpm's were very irregular and could change 200-300 plus and minus. It stayed a few minutes at about 1600-1800 rpm and then plummets and died again. This all seems to look like a shortage of fuel, there was no smoke coming out of the exhaust. But we changed some things before:
Replaced the old fuel for new.
Replaced the 2 fuel filters.
Refilled the fuel tank with new diesel.
After this all, we had the engine running for several hours, without any problems. It drove some tours and I used the PTO some hours for mixing slurry. During these activities I never noticed any problems with engine power, it ran maybe for 8 hours together. I've read something about algae on the forum but I use new diesel, can't imagine that this is the cause. The fuel pump has no feeding pump, so maybe this is a solution? It should work without so maybe there is something else. Has anyone ever had the same problems with this engine and what where the solutions? Didn't check the fuel supply to the Roosamaster pump yet.