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Leaking fuel filter and sediment bowl assembly

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Sandra Simmers

11-17-2001 19:25:01




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I have a To-20 Fergie and I have just noticed that the sediment bowl and fuel filter assembly has a slow fuel leak. I have closed the valve completely to try and isolate the leak, as well as tightened the bowl. Any other ideas?




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drizler

11-20-2001 19:01:34




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 Re: leaking fuel filter and sediment bowl assembly in reply to Sandra Simmers, 11-17-2001 19:25:01  
I have a TO-20 and a Farmall both with a similar setup. They both have undergone the spectrum of fuel stoppages and leaking, sometimes both at the same time. It is a real pain in the neck and it leaks right on the electrical lead by the starter just enough to make it a tad dangerous as well. I did everything to both at one time or another. One day someone at ATIS who had many old tractors told me his hard learned solution, replace the whole thing. He said that sometimes nothing makes them fixed permanently and at under $30 you get another 25 years of trouble free operation. I heartily concur. I changed the Farmall and no more hassles dying out on the run. Guess what Mr. Fergy gets next leak? If you do change it out take the time to flush out the tank to get any loose rust and junk out. Life's too short to hassle with these half baked fixes. Good luck

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David,MI

11-20-2001 14:14:55




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 Re: leaking fuel filter and sediment bowl assembly in reply to Sandra Simmers, 11-17-2001 19:25:01  
Sandra: In addition to the areas already addressed, I had replaced the bowl gasket this summer and thought that I had cured my problems only to find that they came back with the cool fall weather. The gas appeared to be coming from the bowl, so I kept tightening the bowl nut, to no avail. I discovered that a plug above the bowl was the culprit. I removed it, wrapped the threads with teflon tape and it hasn't leaked since. Good luck, David,MI

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Phil (VA)

11-19-2001 12:36:09




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 Re: leaking fuel filter and sediment bowl assembly in reply to Sandra Simmers, 11-17-2001 19:25:01  
Sometimes you can tighten the packing or replace the gasket at top of bowl or put plumbers tape on the fuel line connection or whatever it takes to stop the leak in question. But sometimes it seems like that never works and you have to replace the whole assembly to fix it. I don't know why. I just keep an extra one around in case. Of course, everyone knows the potential consequence of not fixing a fuel leak, so it's cheap to fix it at any price.

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John, IN

11-18-2001 16:06:40




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 Re: leaking fuel filter and sediment bowl assembly in reply to Sandra Simmers, 11-17-2001 19:25:01  
I had to tighten the packing nut on the valve on mine.



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DunerWi

11-18-2001 07:16:37




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 Re: leaking fuel filter and sediment bowl assembly in reply to Sandra Simmers, 11-17-2001 19:25:01  
Fixing the leak is not to hard but keeping it fixed is alot harder. I added a seperate shut off next to the bowl and no more leaking. Most of the time mine leaked around the shaft for the fuel shut off. God luck.



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