[AT] Ford 860 - runs briefly

[Indiana Robinson]

On 29 Jun 2005 at 18:45, Wolf Lahti wrote:

> The subject says it all... if you use some imagination ;)
> 
> My 1956 Ford 860 starts right up, runs a few minutes (sometimes less
> than a minute), then dies. Usualy starts again fine, runs a bit. dies.
> I go this this a few times, then it will run for maybe twenty minutes
> and then die and will not start again. Getting five acres mowed in
> twenty-minute spurts every day or so isn't terribly efficient.
> 
> Not running at all I can diagnose and fix - usually. Intermittent
> problems such as this drive me batty.
> 



	Sounds to me like scale or maybe a piece of rubber etc. blocking the outlet of the fuel 
tank to the sediment bowl. Remove the bowl and turn the gas on to check the flow. It has 
to be that or something else...   ;-)
	I once had that problem with a SP combine engine. I finally found a tiny piece of 
rubber, presumably from the inside of the station's hose to the nozzle that was floating 
around the bottom of the carb bowl. Now and then it would work across the main jet and 
kill the engine. After the engine died it would float away just to get back across the 
jet later and kill it again.
	On Scotts Oliver 1755 There was a piece of electrical tape floating in the tank (my 
fault, long story) and it was going to be a major chore to get it out (has sort of a 
baffle pinch to the filler neck). We took out the sediment bowl and drilled and installed 
a 2.5" stand pipe that had holes drilled in it all around so the piece of tape could 
never block it. Worked great.

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Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
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