Oil & Fuel Ran out of fuel!

[mtimber]

After reading all the posts on this board about the process of repriming a deisel engine I swore I'd never let it happen to me. I've only had my yanmar for 3 weeks now and I've already done it - ran my tank dry! I retrieved a couple of wrenches, screwdrivers and put on a pair of rubber gloves and expected the worst. However, I was pleasantly suprised with how simple the process was on my tractor. All I needed to do was to close off the valve at my fuel filter (manual lever), use a #2 phillips to open the ball valve right beside the injectors, reopen the fuel filter valve until I saw all the air flush out and got a steady stream of fuel out of the ball valve, reclose the fuel filter valve (to stop the stream of fuel from the ball valve until I could reclose it) then reopen the fuel filter valve and I was good to go. (Except the first time I did this I jumped back on my tractor and had left the fuel filter valve closed. The tractor started right up but soon died and I had to repeat the process.) You don't even need to close the fuel filter valve but I did this for more control over the fuel stream and to create less mess.

It seems Yanmar has simplified this process for some of the later models? I have a 2610. Anyone else gone through a similar process?

And one mechanical question - is it hard on a deisel engine to run dry? (not that I plan to do it more in the future just for fun.)

 

[kayssupply]

You would hate priming an F series, if you liked doing yours. You push a button on the filter and use a pump built into the fuel line. It has a hose returning back to the tank. You don't get the pleasure of smelling that sweet diesel.

A late model Hinomot is even worse. It has a relief hose back to the tank and it will self prime with no effort at all.

 

[Dob]

Yup, but thanks to Mr Pepper etal, no problem:
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.tractorbynet.com/cgi-bin/compact/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=yanmar&Number=175714&Search=true&Forum=yanmar&Words=2210&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=175714>See this thread</A>

 

[Trev]

<font color=blue>It seems Yanmar has simplified this process for some of the later models? I have a 2610. Anyone else gone through a similar process?</font color=blue>

Well, maybe the new ones are self-priming. My JD4300 has a Yanmar engine which is self-priming (so they say.. I haven't tested it yet.) /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[BWa]

Ok , I fess up I did run my JD990 with a Yanmar engine dry , ,,, well it was less than a quarter tank full and slite grade , just enough to let her stall out , refueled and started her up and back to work ........got to love that self primer

Bill G.