Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Cautiously optimistic
Tech was here earlier. I had warmed up tractor and knew it would stall.

He hooked her up to his ODB II diagnostic and laptop. 2 codes, not seen before. He got mainland support tech on phone. Some discussion. I don’t remember the codes.

Had us draw off a fuel sample, clean, no water.

Another discussion and he had my tech bypass the fuel filter assembly by hooking tank directly into fuel pump. Started right up and ran nicely. Option was to put it to work. Dragged the rotary cutter a few laps around the area cut just a few days ago then headed off into the wild, same area it choked on last visit. No problem. Headed back to tractor shed. Could it be we found the problem? As said before, the simple thing? That filter was the first thing I changed when problem started last year. Tech is guessing a problem with the filter assembly itself, so has one on order. Fitted with an inline filter we left it in bypass. This weekend I will run it until it fails or feel we found the solution. I did let it run a couple hours after he left.

A bit comforting if this is the solution and nothing serious, but also frustrating that it was so hard to identify. Is it possible I got a bad filter to replace the old? Or is there something gone wrong in the assembly itself? Seems like so much time wasted. we found the problem.

Kind of the same thing with my fuel problems. Turned out there was a bug in fuel tank causing fuel flow to filter. My Kubota B2910 has no shutoff valve in fuel line. But does have a valve in filter housing to stop fuel flow when changing filters.

 

[masseyrider]

Just over 50F to start and going up to 75F.
The perfect temperature summer day.
I've had the AC off for I think 4+ days now with windows wide open. Until 2am this morning when a local skunk came by in full bloom. I had to close up all the windows and turned on the AC for an hour to move it around.
As of 6am there's still just a hint of Mr Lepew but tolerable.
Debating having brekky with impending dentist visit.
Maybe oatmeal and tea.
Really nice start to the day anyways.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
50°, 97% RH, high of 75 forecast for today with clear sky and no rain.

Yesterday was a busy one. Masons are taking off until later next week, the got the scratch coat on the entire exterior that gets stone faced. Fireplace still needs the hearth and stone facing inside.
I started on the network cabling, all the cables are run, I’m terminating and testing them. I have the POE switch and WiFi access point. I’m using an ASUS Zen AI mesh access point with wired backhaul, the mesh includes the main house and shop. I need to put in the attic lights, so I can energize the circuit for them and the outlets up there that will power the internet equipment.

Today drywall finishers are coming back, tile guy is doing the wet bed for the shower and putting the cement board on the the shower walls, the stone is being delivered, and I’m trenching and connecting the sewer line to the pump tank.
In other words, another day that I won’t get back to the little plane.

 

[riptides]

49 outside this AM, heading to upper 70's.

Nice day ahead, need to rethink a lot of things.

FIL diagnosed with advanced cancer, was not doing to well mentally anyway. This may set him on the real fast track to see the lord.

Still trying to get his house in order. Roofers coming by shortly, along with painters. Got to line up carpet bids. Will be back there later again today. Still needs a really big cleanout of house and barns. Just not enough time in the day to handle all this. On top of this, the daughters (one of them) is out of touch with reality and is already trying to gold dig. Having direct experience with this type, still, with my Dad's estate, I just don't get it. Strange times we live in.

Also got word, real job contract is up and out. Looks like I will be negotiating for work all over again. Great timing. Not. Some funding string dried up, not my issue, and someone forgot to cross the T and dot the I. Sort of need a real job at this moment in time trying to settle estates and living out of state.

On the home front, need to cut grass by pool and get that back under control. Rescheduled plumbers, again. Need to find an answer for the streaky sealant drying on the tile floor. Need to get a wall painted in there, another wall built out around the water heater. Need to finish a few pieces of siding that never got permanently hung. Lots of little work that just never seems to get done.

Opinion on David's tractor, yeah I went through three fuel filters this season already. Inspecting them, I really did not see any obstructions. I think I had a bad batch. I could hear the engine surging, until it just starved itself for fuel and would only run full choke, Knock on wood it doesn't surface again, and that maybe it is also David's issue.

Hope all have a good day. Come on Friday!

 

[daugen]

fuel filters and pickup tubes have ruined many a day.
the fuel filter on my 110 hour JD lawn mower is three years old and looks new.
My gas cans were new then, no junk in bottom and I'm careful when filling not to let
junk fall in.

so should I change the 3 dollar filter?
I keep spares so why not other than one more thing for local landfill.
used to do this religiously on schedule with diesels.
When living aboard my boat with two 8V71TI's for three years in South Florida
it was a constant battle keeping algae out of the tanks.

Several times while out on the water I had to go down into seriously hot engine room and change out a Racor
fuel filter. One of the two engines had died. You always got covered in diesel and I wasn't smart enough to wear gloves.
I'd tell my wife to take the wheel and that would rattle her
to the point I always knew what the next words were
HURRY UP
yup
I lusted after the nicer model Racor with the flip over levers where you could just flip to a spare filter if one got clogged.
Then you could deal with it when you got back to the dock.
Those soft green Detroits got mighty hot.
with a few exceptions, I loved every minute crawling around in that engine compartment.
I had detailed it myself when I got the boat and it was remarkably clean when I got the 1981 boat.
That's what appealed to me, someone had taken very good care of it.
As I did for the next 13 years.

of course the guy with the big Hatteras near me with 8-92s were silver I think, 735hp
Detroit V-8s. They didn't last long at that power rating, more than double what they
put out in trucks. The DDECs had arrived.
But if you wanted your heavy Hatteras sport fish to do 25 knots you needed the horsepower.
like car engines, now everything is way more powerful.
Similar boat does 40 knots now. Swilling a huge amount of diesel to do it.
big boats are definitely a wealthy person's hobby at four bucks a gallon or more on the water.

actually I'd like to get another boat. An electric boat to go play on the Delaware River with.
Probably keep it down in Croydon in a little country marina where I was with my first boat, the Carver 33.
I actually took my Bertram in there once and with only one foot under the 5 foot keel, didn't do that again.
Props cost thousands of dollars each to straighten. Oh boy do I know.
but only person not to ding a prop most likely never left the dock.

stomach grumbling, time for more coffee too

 

[Buppies]

Drew thousands of hours on lakes never got a prop did bend lower skeg on lower unit in winyah bay once my fault though. Have not run a boat since 2006. In the mid 90s did a lot of ICW and out in ocean about 35 miles when father got sick I quit just not the same

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 49 and going to a high of 75°F. Wind N 4 mph. Clearing.

Today will be Jeep garage roof. With a 4 mph wind from the north that job should be easily accomplished.

The garbage tarp got cut into three and the two biggest of the three I took to the dump yesterday along with the recycle stuff. The smaller one will go on the next dump run. Then it will be on to the cardboard boxes that are taking over the living room. The cat we just buried really liked her cardboard boxes, but she doesn't need them any more, so they can go to the dump too. I think that will be a next Tuesday job weather permitting.
I will keep a couple around here for starting the woodstove fires, but only one or two.

Ron, it looks like your tree rat has a posture problem.

Have a safe day all

 

[m7040]

good morning, 54 going to 76 no rain

Need to water this morning

Did some string trimming yesterday and along a fence line. Used up 3 batteries

David, great news on the tractor fuel problems. The complicated emissions systems kind of stands in the way I think of looking at the simple solutions.

Riptides, hope you get the next assignment lined up soon. In my carrier it was always in front of me that the current project would finish and where is the next one?

 

[daugen]

Buppies, running on lakes you don't get many IEDs in the water.
But if you do go up close to the shore, and it's rocky, that sure can happen.

on a river, after a storm, all kinds of logs and stuff in water, sometimes old telephone poles.
on the Chesapeake I have hit things that went bang but luckily no damage, and I had no idea what I hit out
in deep water. Something floating and not a crab pot.
try to navigate through a field of a thousand crab pots and you never know what has broken loose.

going to Florida on intracoastal, lots of areas silted in near inlets, less than a foot clearance on 28x32 bronze props
you just hope you don't hit something hard or ground. Several times I had to shut generator and airconditioners down so as not
to suck in sandy water.

yes lake boating is marvelous. No tide to worry about, rarely much chop.
and fresh water. Just think about the pics of corroded water softeners on this thread and
you get an idea what ocean water does to a boat if it can. Fresh water boats are worth more on trade also.

 

[masseyrider]

For the guys with fuel/filter issues, friend had an International tractor some years ago.
Aboot 120HP.
Just couldn't get it up to full power, the more throttle the less power.
Filters, fuel pumps, injectors, lines, they checked it all.
Then one tech took the fuel tank off and found the problem.
Where the fuel line comes out of the tank there is a fitting welded to attach the fuel line. Somehow when the tractor was built a piece of the curly metal waste from drilling a hole got in the tank and drawn into the fitting.
As you gave the tractor more throttle and it tried to draw more fuel this metal curly bit got sucked down harder and blocked the fuel. Sort of like a slinky toy but the middle would get smaller as it got sucked down.
Great running tractor after a protracted search for the problem that could have been fixed with a small magnet.