lastcowboy32
Well-known Member
I rebuilt our 2N last summer, and it has run like a champ since. We've raked with it, tedded with it, drawn wagons with it...pulled our little ground driven spreader.
Still starts almost before you press the button. Happy as can be.
OK...so , I noticed a lot of sediment in the sediment bowl. I did have the tank removed last year for repainting. I figure it gathered some dust, and maybe flaked a little when it was dry.
No biggie, right? It was still running great.
Here's my first mistake.
I was getting the equipment ready for the first haying session, and I had the 2N hooked up to the rake; while I was greasing and adjusting the rake. So, I figure while it's next to the garage, I'll empty the sediment bowl. Easy, right? I grabbed a big funnel and an oil pan. Shut off the gas valve on the bottom of the tank. Loosened the little jam nut under the bowl. Viola! Tipped over the bowl and dumped the sediment out.
Here's where it gets dodgy.
No matter what I did, I could not get that darn cork gasket to seal up. I tried seating the bowl a couple of times. I even gave the jam nut a couple of tweaks with some slip jaw pliers, against my better judgement.
So here I am ready to rake hay, time's wasting, and my sediment bowl is sweating just ever so slightly...and there's nothing that I can do about it.
It was so hot, that the gas evaporated almost as quickly as it seeped; so I did my raking anyway; since I needed the 3000 to run the baler. I made sure to reach up and turn the gas off whenever I stopped the engine (which I had to a couple of times to help my father-in-law with the baler)
Now I'm done for a couple of rainy days and I want to figure this out for next time...so...this is what I did with the cork gasket from rebuild day 1. What did I do wrong?
During the rebuild, I bought a new cork gasket.
When I went to install it, I thought that I was told to soak it in gas overnight to let it saturate and swell a little.
Well...it swelled...like one of those friggin sponge animals that you give your kid in the bathtub.
It swelled so much, that it wouldn't fit inside the lip of the gas tank valve.
So, I took an exacto knife and trimmed to to match the lip of the sediment bowl (and the lip of the gas tank valve)
I installed it, and it worked fine with just a good finger tightening of the jam nut.
It worked fine for about a year...until my little episode yesterday.
so...
Should I expect to replace the little cork gasket whenever I remove the sediment bowl?
Should I have installed it dry in the first place to avoid trimming it?
Should I just epoxy the bowl to the valve and forget about it? (sort of kidding)
Any tips from the guys who have removed these bowls time and time again over the years?
Thanks, and I hope that all of your field work is going well.
Still starts almost before you press the button. Happy as can be.
OK...so , I noticed a lot of sediment in the sediment bowl. I did have the tank removed last year for repainting. I figure it gathered some dust, and maybe flaked a little when it was dry.
No biggie, right? It was still running great.
Here's my first mistake.
I was getting the equipment ready for the first haying session, and I had the 2N hooked up to the rake; while I was greasing and adjusting the rake. So, I figure while it's next to the garage, I'll empty the sediment bowl. Easy, right? I grabbed a big funnel and an oil pan. Shut off the gas valve on the bottom of the tank. Loosened the little jam nut under the bowl. Viola! Tipped over the bowl and dumped the sediment out.
Here's where it gets dodgy.
No matter what I did, I could not get that darn cork gasket to seal up. I tried seating the bowl a couple of times. I even gave the jam nut a couple of tweaks with some slip jaw pliers, against my better judgement.
So here I am ready to rake hay, time's wasting, and my sediment bowl is sweating just ever so slightly...and there's nothing that I can do about it.
It was so hot, that the gas evaporated almost as quickly as it seeped; so I did my raking anyway; since I needed the 3000 to run the baler. I made sure to reach up and turn the gas off whenever I stopped the engine (which I had to a couple of times to help my father-in-law with the baler)
Now I'm done for a couple of rainy days and I want to figure this out for next time...so...this is what I did with the cork gasket from rebuild day 1. What did I do wrong?
During the rebuild, I bought a new cork gasket.
When I went to install it, I thought that I was told to soak it in gas overnight to let it saturate and swell a little.
Well...it swelled...like one of those friggin sponge animals that you give your kid in the bathtub.
It swelled so much, that it wouldn't fit inside the lip of the gas tank valve.
So, I took an exacto knife and trimmed to to match the lip of the sediment bowl (and the lip of the gas tank valve)
I installed it, and it worked fine with just a good finger tightening of the jam nut.
It worked fine for about a year...until my little episode yesterday.
so...
Should I expect to replace the little cork gasket whenever I remove the sediment bowl?
Should I have installed it dry in the first place to avoid trimming it?
Should I just epoxy the bowl to the valve and forget about it? (sort of kidding)
Any tips from the guys who have removed these bowls time and time again over the years?
Thanks, and I hope that all of your field work is going well.