massey ferguson 240 shutting down and wont crank back

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dnichols

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massey ferguson 240
Hey guys im new to this so bare with me. I have a Massey Ferguson 240 with the Perkins 2.5L 3-cyl diesel, its a great running tractor but lately its been giving me what seems to be fuel issues. The tractor will crank up and run fine but after about 20-30 mins it will idle up high like im pushing the throttle then it will idle back down. it will do this about 4-5 times then die. in order to get it to crank back you have to pump it up and either use ether or a gas rag to try and get it to crank. it will eventually crank back but then die again after about 5-10 mins. we have had the fuel filters changed ,cleaned tank out, and blew lines out in case of trash and spent a couple hundred getting it looked at and thought issue was resolved but its doing same thing again. before having it looked at again and sinking more money into the same thing was checking to see if anyone had any suggestions or dealt with this before. Thanks in advance!
 
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Did you have the little screen at the fuel in take? Was it clogged?
 
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Vacuum in the tank?
 
   / massey ferguson 240 shutting down and wont crank back
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Did you have the little screen at the fuel in take? Was it clogged?

the guy who worked on it took the petcock valve off and it was stopped up but cleaned it out and got fuel flowing back through.
 
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the guy who worked on it took the petcock valve off and it was stopped up but cleaned it out and got fuel flowing back through.
But was it a strainer on it?
 
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Whatever you do, don not run the engine on ether, it's poison for a diesel engine!
 
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If the strainer was clogged, chances r hi that the gunk made it to the plastic filter in the inj. pump.
The filter is located under the large 15/16 inlet nut.. There are several utube videos on the clean out procedure so I won稚 bore u w it..
Have a look for CAV DPA FILTER CLEAN OUT..
But I would start at the fuel tank strainer FIRST..
Good luck
 

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