Question on a John Deere 4200 Compact Tractor?

kruser · May 10, 2014

Little sucker mowed great all afternoon and then DIED towards evening and can't get it to start!
Put more fuel in it but still no go. Plugged fuel filter?

PS: Around 1200 hours and stored inside.

VicS · May 10, 2014

My son-in-law has one and it is always the electric solenoid on the pump. Some of them have just lasted a week or so. Our dealer has even changed some to a manual push-pull cable. Vic

donjr · May 10, 2014

Jim, try a piece of wire from the battery to the solenoid on the injector pump. I had a problem in the wire from my switch to the pump on my 2520, and it turned out to be the wire went open in a connector. That may rule out a bad (and expensive) solenoid....

Chuck (CA) · May 10, 2014

Just thinking; if you ran out of fuel, would you need to bleed the injectors? It is a diesel, right?

Russ from MN · May 10, 2014

We have an 01 4600, have never had one thing go wrong with it, 750 hrs. I have never run it out of fuel, my Father told me many years ago, never run a diesel out of fuel! Maybe yours is just a filter, they are supposed to be easy to bleed. Ours has a real nice fuel tank with a drain at the very bottom, I drain a little out once in awhile, use it to start bonfires. I am pretty sure I have never changed the fuel filter, but I have one on the shelf!

NNP · May 11, 2014

easy things first
my local small new tractor dealer (different color)
says the #1 problem is plugged fuel filters.
Only occasional tractor use, water, bad, fouled, old, gelled, algaed fuel,
everything that plugs em.
Everybody that buys their own maintenance parts there gets the reminder. "don't forget the fuel filter"

Jo Bird · May 11, 2014

If the solenoid on the injection pump makes a click when the key is turned on then it is most likely a plugged filter or air lock. If no click from the pump solenoid it could be a bad solenoid or a bad wire from one of the safety switches or the ECM. So the question is dose it click or not ??

FLOLDFORD · May 11, 2014

Kruser
I don't no if this the case but I worked on a late model JD last year for a friend of mine. It would not pull fuel from the tank up to the filter no matter what you did. Finely figured out it had a check valve in the line from the tank to the filter and it was not holding. When I pulled it out it had a small piece of plastic shavings from when the holes were drilled in the tank at the factory. I went the local dealer and they knew just what I was talking about. Seems it is a common problem with the plastic tanks. If its not the filters or the solenoid at the pump it might be something to check

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