Guitar152
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Hey guys. I'm smart and relatively mechanically inclined, but I don't have a lot of experience with diesel or tractors, much less diesel tractors. Nonetheless, I'm the man of the farm, so this repair falls on me.
I was bush hogging up against the tree line yesterday in my Kubota L3400. The RPMs stuttered; I tried to adjust the throttle, but it died nonetheless. Tried starting it back up; turned over but died quickly -- as in within a second or two. It just kinda cranked but never got loud like the pistons were firing. It kinda farted and died. The solenoid is making a weird intermittent clicking sound now when I try to start it up. I sprayed starter fluid in the air intake -- the filter is pristine. The fuel filter is a little dirty, but doesn't look cripplingly so.
While poking around under the hood, I discovered a piece of mangled hose hanging off a... thing. It's adjacent to the electrical hookup for what I *think* is the solenoid. I have taken pictures. It's like a plug; it has a little piece of cotton inside it. I'm thinking this is part of my fuel intake and it probably got mangled by a branch. I can't figure out where it would attach to even if I had the complete hose, though.
Do you guys mind checking out my pictures and telling me 1) what the heck I'm looking at, 2) if I'm missing a hose and, if so, 3) what part do I need to order and 4) where should it attach to?
Thanks so much.
-Matt in Hurdle Mills, NC
Pictures: We're looking down into the engine bay from the right side of the tractor. The closer pictures are a zoom of the outside angle. The closest picture shows the plug on the left (which has a little cotton plug and which had a rubber hose coming off of it that was broken off at about 3") , adjacent to an electrical wire that comes in on the right.
I was bush hogging up against the tree line yesterday in my Kubota L3400. The RPMs stuttered; I tried to adjust the throttle, but it died nonetheless. Tried starting it back up; turned over but died quickly -- as in within a second or two. It just kinda cranked but never got loud like the pistons were firing. It kinda farted and died. The solenoid is making a weird intermittent clicking sound now when I try to start it up. I sprayed starter fluid in the air intake -- the filter is pristine. The fuel filter is a little dirty, but doesn't look cripplingly so.
While poking around under the hood, I discovered a piece of mangled hose hanging off a... thing. It's adjacent to the electrical hookup for what I *think* is the solenoid. I have taken pictures. It's like a plug; it has a little piece of cotton inside it. I'm thinking this is part of my fuel intake and it probably got mangled by a branch. I can't figure out where it would attach to even if I had the complete hose, though.
Do you guys mind checking out my pictures and telling me 1) what the heck I'm looking at, 2) if I'm missing a hose and, if so, 3) what part do I need to order and 4) where should it attach to?
Thanks so much.
-Matt in Hurdle Mills, NC
Pictures: We're looking down into the engine bay from the right side of the tractor. The closer pictures are a zoom of the outside angle. The closest picture shows the plug on the left (which has a little cotton plug and which had a rubber hose coming off of it that was broken off at about 3") , adjacent to an electrical wire that comes in on the right.
