shut down a Ford 1500

I just brought home a 1500 Ford with a 2 cylinder diesel engine. The previous owner was picking a high range and gear, throttling down to an idle, and stalling the engine. I would like to shut it down the proper way but don't know how it's meant to be done. Is it electric or manual fuel shut down? thanks, gregjo1948
 
Throttle all the way down shuts off the fuel, don't forget to turn the key switch off.
 

I just bot a 1500 a couple months ago. Gave 3400 bux for it and a ford 715 snowblower and a 5' TSC finish mower. Just added some gauges and spent about 300 bux rebuilding the injectors as it was hard starting. Put an inline lower radiator hose heater plus a stick on style heater under the oil pan. Going to run a compression check on it. Got a ford loader to go pickup and see if it will fit or not as I'm not sure what number it is.

Actually you push the throttle all the way forward to shut it off. Pull it back all the way to start. I wish it had a better system to shut it off as there is really no detent to stop you at idle. Bump it down to far and it shuts off. I've changed all the fluids and filters. The hydraulic filter has one of those metal filters that need to be cleaned. It has a wire retainer to hold it up. If you leave the little wire tail sticking down, then it will come loose after you tighten it down and you have no hydraulics so I have the tail sticking up into the can. Started it the other day and no hydraulics again. Check the filter and the wire was holding it and all I did was clean the filter again carb cleaner and blew it out good with air. Put it on and everything worked.

When I pulled the fuel filter it was crushed a little like it was too long. Got the wix filter that crossed with the ford number and same thing. Found a place on fleabag, Kumar Bros, that sent me a filter that fit the cup along with a new cup. The new cup was too long for that filter but I ordered a couple more and Sid gave me another since the longer cup will have more filter area.

Engine is made in Nippon so all bolts are metric thread. Pipe fittings for water and oil senders are a British G thread which is close but not exactly like NPT. Got a tee fitting to go in where the oil sender is so I can have the light and a gauge. It is the 1/4" G thread but I tapped it out to a 1/4" npt and was easy to do. Can't tee off of the water sender so I took out the drain plug on the left side of the block. It broke off so I got it out with heat, wax, and an easy out. Then tapped it to npt and used pipe fitting to get big enough for the gauge sender to screw in. I mounted the 3 gauges (with voltmeter) in a black plastic case just below the bend in the dash with the gauges looking up.

There is no place in the block for a block heater. I knocked out one of the plugs on the left side and was staring at the camshaft. Put another plug in with red threadlocker.

I had put new water and antifreeze in it and a few weeks later there was a layer of brown sludge on the radiator cap. Run water through it while it was running for quite a while till it ran clear. Then put some Napa engine flush in it and ran it for an hour and then refilled it with antifreeze. Not sure where all the sludge came from.

Good luck with it. I like mine. Tried to pick up a 1700 pound bale with the 3 point and it started up but the front end raised off the ground. 3 point is rated around 1420 pounds of lift but a loader on the front would help.
 
Thanks for your reply. When I go to complete idle position, it idles too low for normal operation but, it doesn't shut down. Would I need to adjust the linkage or is there a stop on the pump that needs attention? thanks, gregjo1948
 
(quoted from post at 04:16:29 03/09/21) Thanks for your reply. When I go to complete idle position, it idles too low for normal operation but, it doesn't shut down. Would I need to adjust the linkage or is there a stop on the pump that needs attention? thanks, gregjo1948

I don't know. I asked on another thread and didn't get an answer. I assume there is an adjustment. It has a friction pad down under there. Mine is probably too tight as I have to bump it and there is no place called the idle position on mine. The lever goes forward and back. If yours isn't shutting off then it probably needs adjusting in the linkage. I wish I could separate the throttle function from the shut off function but in looking at the linkage, I don't see a way to do it.



I ordered the 3 manuals from fleabag for 12.97 plus 1.00 for the disk from external_link. Parts manual, shop manual, and operators manual. You can get the downloads immediately but I like the disks for backup.

Also the longer filter and cup I got from kbrosusa on fleabag list as Kubota fuel filter with o-rings #15231-43560, 1T021-43560. The bowl goes with that filter.
 


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I finally had time to figure out the shutdown. There is a foot operated lever used by the right foot. Kinda above the brake pedals. Thanks for all the replies, gregjo1948
 

That pedal is a foot throttle so you can leave the lever at idle and use the foot throttle to get around. How are you using it to shut down? Also wondering what you gave for the 1500?
 

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