[AT] 3 cyl diesel problems

[Stephen Offiler]

Anybody use propane/MAPP?  Unlit torch pointing into the air box.  I use it
on reluctant gasoline engines with a fair amount of success, but not so
sure about diesel.  Since we're talking about gas-soaked rags or gas-soaked
air filters on diesel engines, seems like a similar approach.

SO

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 3:37 PM Dennis Johnson <moscowengnr at outlook.com>
wrote:

> Be careful using this method. A few weeks ago my son watched a new hand
> try this on a crane engine by dosing the air cleaner with gas. Crane engine
> started and ran away throwing chunks out the side of the engine.
> Replacement engine from Germany was $60K, which company paid for by no
> longer paying the person who did it.
>
> Moral is that while this method works, you need to be able to control how
> much gas it gets, and be able to pull the gas source away quickly.
>
> Dennis
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Oct 27, 2019, at 8:36 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
> >
> > I have had this problem before on a few engines that had weak fuel
> pumps.   I get a large rag soaked in gasoline and hold it over the air
> intake.  Not completely cutting off the air, but making sure the gasoline
> fumes are getting into the air intake. After finding this method, I have
> not used a primer pump since. Got caught on the side of I-40 with a truck
> that had fuel in one tank and ran out of the other.  I walked over to a
> truck stop, got a can of gas and a stack of red shop towels.   When I got
> back to the truck, I just opened up the air filter housing and poured gas
> on the dry filter.  it started up and ran after I pressured the other tank
> to send the fuel over the transfer line to the main tank......
> > Cecil
> >
> >> On 10/27/2019 7:14 AM, Milo Holroyd wrote:
> >>> On 10/27/19 7:55 AM, ivan wrote:
> >>> Helping a buddy out moving some dirt using a small bobcat excavator .
> He ran it out of fuel and thats when the problem started .  After you fill
> it then you use the primer bulb . It will start up ,run for about 10
> seconds then sputter and die like its starving for fuel .  First try was a
> new fuel filter , the round spin on one bolted to the side of machine . No
> change . took off the fuel line where it goes into the injector pump and
> squeeze the primer ,fuel comes out .   He even tried grandpa's ,whack it
> with a hammer but failed .  Any suggestions ?    He said the engine is a
> kubota  3 cyl diesel . It was bought used 5 yrs ago and first tie its ever
> failed . Thanks , Ivan
> >>>
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> >> It is starving for fuel. Providing nothing else is abnormal, ( hoses,
> lines, air leaks, etc) just hold the throttle full open and it will
> eventually push all the air out of the system.
> >>
> >> You can also speed up the process if you can locate the bleeder that is
> most likely right on the injector pump, where the fuel supply line connects.
> >>
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