MF Diesel dies after 30 minutes

There is a screen in the tank to protect the petcock.. it was clogging up to the point where running the engine at half throttle or better, it would simply drain the filters and then the injector pump would run out of fuel.

Let it sit for an hour.. enough fuel would come through the petcock and fill the filters again and it would start after bleeding the injectors.

Drained tank, cleaned petcock strainer, rinsed debris out of the tank as best I could, re-assembled.. no further problems.

Pull the fuel line off the petcock and see what kind of flow you've got. Should be nice and strong. If it's a dribble, you've found your problem.

bbott

Does the engine 'race' or have erratic throttle response before it dies ? That's what mine ususally do... both the MF's and the JD's behave that way.

Usually if they die from fuel starvation you have to bleed the injectors... but sometimes I've 'got lucky' restarting without cracking the lines at the injectors.

Really not much else to go wrong with a diesel..
compression + fuel injected = runs.

Good luck.. let us know how it turns out.

bbott