Every time I start this tractor from COLD, its extremely difficult...cranks over before it finally kicks in to almost flattening the battery. In fact generally I need to put the battery on the charger and swap it for the spare just been charged each morning. It was built in the 89 and is Diesel, low hours. Once started, it goes all day and can start/stop the tractor no problems.
Compression is good. The mechanic looked at the fuel pump, we replaced the glow plug and on testing yesterday, still fails to throw a flame as no fuel is being released.
The glow plug gets red hot really fast but there is just no fuel being released through the glow plug. We bleed the line but still struggling to get any fuel to be released. If there is a dribble of fuel, of course, it will flame up for a second.
As a test, a split second squirt of a "hard start" spray in the air intake and it instantly starts every time from dead cold.
Just struggling to find info on how the fuel is released into the glow plug.
This post was edited by Bart1080 on 05/31/2021 at 01:29 am.
Compression is good. The mechanic looked at the fuel pump, we replaced the glow plug and on testing yesterday, still fails to throw a flame as no fuel is being released.
The glow plug gets red hot really fast but there is just no fuel being released through the glow plug. We bleed the line but still struggling to get any fuel to be released. If there is a dribble of fuel, of course, it will flame up for a second.
As a test, a split second squirt of a "hard start" spray in the air intake and it instantly starts every time from dead cold.
Just struggling to find info on how the fuel is released into the glow plug.
This post was edited by Bart1080 on 05/31/2021 at 01:29 am.