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Post by billinohio on Mar 6, 2024 19:20:27 GMT -6
My neighbor has me working on his old Case, again. he got out with it and it quit running. Wait a few minutes and it would run fine for a little bit. Well, he decides that the carburetor needs a rebuild, but before doing anything, I wanted to try it out. I took off down the lane, dragging the brakes. Didn’t take long to act up. I get off and look at the little clear plastic fuel filter. The fuel is coming in, just a dribble, just laying at the bottom of the plastic tube, not even touching the paper filter, it seems. But it is getting enough to run until you work it. I thought I would be smart and unhook it from the carb, and hold it upright so all the air would evacuate. That did not work. Fuel flows out, plenty fast, but it still leaves about half the filter with air in it.
I am thinking about trying to turn the filter backwards to fill it with gas, then juggle it quickly to hook it up in the right direction. His gas tank was low, so, I am sure that compounded the situation. Anyway, it is getting a carb kit.
I see no good reason to have this filter, the sediment bowl is clean.
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Post by 504 on Mar 6, 2024 19:43:25 GMT -6
You can't get the air out,but the biggest problem I have found it using a 5/16 filter instead of a 3/8 filter.Try Blowing some air backup the sediment bowl,a parcel plug will flow some gas but maybe not enough. I have found I can clamp a 3/8 filter on a 5/16 line and it won't leak.
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Post by sandbur on Mar 6, 2024 20:06:09 GMT -6
Maybe the screen in the sediment bowl is partially gunked up? Or even the screen in the tank? I'd try blowing some compressed air back up in to the tank. The tank may need a cleaning......use an Electrolux vacuum to evacuate the tank....lol! Anyone remember that story?
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Post by Erstwhile on Mar 6, 2024 21:07:36 GMT -6
I've forgotten. Sounds like a Windsor.
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Post by billinohio on Mar 6, 2024 21:18:05 GMT -6
No, that was a young and dumb Sloroll adventure! But, I could sure imagine Tom doing such a thing.
Actually, there appeared to be a lot of fuel flowing through the filter when I was attempting to get the air out of it, kinda surprising how much.
I might try to immerse it in a cup of gas, I want to get most of the air out of it. I will also tell him to fill the tank
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Post by f2036 on Mar 6, 2024 21:35:47 GMT -6
Yes I remember. Wasn't there a electrolux vacuum found lying in the ditch on the way home from school oneday? Hey that might work to help clean out the fuel tank on the tractor, it must have some junk in the bottom because when it quits running and I blow air backwards through the fuel line it will run okay for a while. When doing a balancing act,one foot on the rear wheel the other foot in the frame rail holding the vacuum, getting the hose in the fuel tank ------when the vacuum had sucked enough fuel/fumes and with the short in the vacuum motor------that old electrolux sounded like a jet engine winding up------
Wasn't this the same fella that for a science class assignment him and a buddy tried a biogas experiment with chicken poop
If if remember right didn't we call him Sloroll ?
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Post by sandbur on Mar 6, 2024 22:31:26 GMT -6
Yes I remember. Wasn't there a electrolux vacuum found lying in the ditch on the way home from school oneday? Hey that might work to help clean out the fuel tank on the tractor, it must have some junk in the bottom because when it quits running and I blow air backwards through the fuel line it will run okay for a while. When doing a balancing act,one foot on the rear wheel the other foot in the frame rail holding the vacuum, getting the hose in the fuel tank ------when the vacuum had sucked enough fuel/fumes and with the short in the vacuum motor------that old electrolux sounded like a jet engine winding up------ Wasn't this the same fella that for a science class assignment him and a buddy tried a biogas experiment with chicken poop If if remember right didn't we call him Sloroll ? Winner winner chicken dinner!
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Post by diydave on Mar 7, 2024 4:50:54 GMT -6
no need for an automotive in line filter on a gravity flow with a sediment bowl. The filter requires more pressure than the system supplies...
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Post by rustyfarmall on Mar 7, 2024 6:48:54 GMT -6
no need for an automotive in line filter on a gravity flow with a sediment bowl. The filter requires more pressure than the system supplies... Exactly!! Provided that the fine mesh screen is still in that sediment bowl, there is absolutely no need for any kind of inline filter.
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Post by Erstwhile on Mar 7, 2024 7:00:42 GMT -6
In a troublesome fuel contamination situation in a gravity feed, I sometimes put a short standpipe in the tank to cut down on trash/moisture somewhat.
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Post by billinohio on Mar 7, 2024 7:14:18 GMT -6
The little filter stays nice and clean looking, that ought to be our first clue, and the sediment bowl is, too. I doubt if I can convince the owner, other than to fill up the tank.
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Post by rustyfarmall on Mar 7, 2024 7:17:47 GMT -6
In a troublesome fuel contamination situation in a gravity feed, I sometimes put a short standpipe in the tank to cut down on trash/moisture somewhat. Yes, I have done that also.
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Post by kevinj54 on Mar 7, 2024 7:51:32 GMT -6
The little filter stays nice and clean looking, that ought to be our first clue, and the sediment bowl is, too. I doubt if I can convince the owner, other than to fill up the tank. Some tractors have a stand pipe with screen in the tank that will plug up.
I would remove glass & check flow right at the tank.
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Post by rustyfarmall on Mar 7, 2024 9:12:33 GMT -6
The little filter stays nice and clean looking, that ought to be our first clue, and the sediment bowl is, too. I doubt if I can convince the owner, other than to fill up the tank. Some tractors have a stand pipe with screen in the tank that will plug up.
I would remove glass & check flow right at the tank.
The original sediment bowl assemblies for the Farmalls had a screen in the inlet. Very similar to that screen that is a part of the carburetor fuel line inlet fitting. In fact, my M has that exact screen in the sediment bowl inlet, because I put it there.
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Post by Butcher on Mar 7, 2024 19:03:34 GMT -6
The little filter stays nice and clean looking, that ought to be our first clue, and the sediment bowl is, too. I doubt if I can convince the owner, other than to fill up the tank. Some tractors have a stand pipe with screen in the tank that will plug up.
I would remove glass & check flow right at the tank.
What he said!!
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