Tractor surging and now dead; help, grass is really high!

Posted by Kajun on June 18, 2001 at 08:56:52 from (216.78.133.88):

Can somebody help me with this problem.We had 25 inches of rain about 10 days ago and the grass is going crazy.

Mowing Saturday on my IH444 diesel tractor; grass heavy; tractor working hard for about 1 hour; engine running wide open the whole time except for occasional turn. Noticed the tractor seemingly running at higher rpm than usual; reduced throttle; engine began to surge slightly; re-advanced the throttle to wide open but tractor failed to resume full wide open rpm; thereafter continued to surge slightly; continued mowing for an additional 10 minutes; reduced throttle to idle and tractor completely stopped and would not restart.

Yesterday, bled fuel system for air; tractor would not start; towed tractor and it started immediately. Mowed for 15 - 20 minutes. After that time, tractor repeated the same symptoms. This time, however, it stopped under load and towing it would not start it.

What’s going on here; any thoughts? Any guidance would be appreciated.

Kajun

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• Re: Tractor surging and now dead; help, grass is really high! TB 11:51:11 06/21/01 (0)
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