I was cutting my lawn today it was 87 degrees, I was all most done with cutting my rms dropped and I was losing power like the brake was on but it was not, then all of sudden tractor was running fine ,twice this happened to me, once I was done cutting the lawn, I loaded tractor on my trailer and then I re started and it had a rough idle, then a 30 min drive home unloaded off trailer ran fine no issues ran as it should, I am thinking condensation in fuel? clogged fuel filter? I did check all connection and all we connected, I have 150 hrs on my machine.
my BX 1870 no power
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I agree with fuel filter is where I would start first, the first filter under the frame BEFORE the fuel pump,,thats the metal thing with wires going to it they are hard to see sometimes dont fool with it.. And the second one is on the left side of the motor very easy to change that one.
Have the fuel filters ever been changed, or service work. What kind of fuel are you running in it, how old is the fuel, do you run any fuel additives with your diesel fuel.
I replaced fuel filter now it won't start I now have a dead battery from trying to start, am I missing something? do I need to bleed system? if so how?
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Maybe you are having trouble with one of the interlocks, probably the seat. If it is intermittent that would explain why it stumbles and then runs fine. Some of the interlocks will let the tractor crank, but will not start as the fuel solenoid will be energized. The only bleed on a BX fuel system is to turn on the key for 30 seconds and allow the electric fuel pump to run. You probably accomplished the bleeding in your attempts to start.
I got it running, but no luck still loosing power up hills and shakes like it is going to stall I did take a video of the tractor, I have to send to my dealer and let them try to fix it, I had no luck I think it is a defective diesel pump to defective hydro unit, I am using the triple bagger, and I have read the hydro pumps will not hold up to the bagger unit, or throttle related ...
Did you do both filters and bleed air from the 10mm bolt just under the fuel solenoid? My BX25D ended up with a foil fuel treatment bottle seal in the tank...had to pull out the fuel tank to find it.
had to call my dealer my tractor stop running as I was cutting the lawn on my back 2 acres and he helped me try to diagnose it, as what he came up is defective fuel pump hope this is not things I need to look out for as it gets older 115 hrs and 1.5 years old oh well now the dealer has to come out and fix it
key on no fuel from line
key on no fuel from line
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