Posted by Chris in MO on July 21, 2008 at 17:42:21 from (72.161.16.59):
Okay, where do I start? Last winter when I changed the fuel filters on my 5000 w/diesel engine, I stupidly stripped the threads for the bleed valve. Well, I don't need this frequently, so it sat until last week when I got around to having it machined. I installed the fuel filter housing, along with new filters. The tractor fired up and ran fine, then started to sputter and died. I drained the filters and sure enough there was water in one of them.
This morning I rebled the lines and started it up. It idled just fine for about 15 minutes. When I throttled it up, it sounded fine. So I hooked up to a trailer to pick some stuff up out of the field. I had to back the trailer for a distance to just over the edge of a hill. Shortly afterward it sputtered and died.
I drained the filters again, but there was no water present. I pulled off one of the filters to look inside, and it still looked essentially new, no crud. I had only put 5 gallons of diesel into the tank and I thought that perhaps the pump had started to suck air.
Well, I added another 5 gallons of diesel, and started to bleed the lines again. The spring on the manual fuel pump lever snapped. I kept using it, but could not get a flow of diesel out of the first bleed valve. To check that the pump was okay, I disconnected the supply pipe going into the filter and cranked the engine briefly. Fuel came out. However, I still could not get it to bleed properly. So I removed the bleed plug and cranked the engine again. After several seconds, some diesel came splashing out, but not a flow. When I stopped the engine, there was no fuel coming out of the bleed valve.
So there the tractor sits, in the way with a trailer I need this week attached to it. It has been about 95 degrees today and all this work was done in the sun. I am dehydrated and frazzled. Does anyone out there have any idea what might be wrong?
Sorry about the long post, but I sure could use some help.
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