I failed to mention an unusual occurrence that confronted me the other day when I was busy clearing riverbank and putting very heavy rears back on after a flat!
I started out with a full fuel tank, and noticed that I seemed to be using a lot of fuel.I blamed it on the fairly heavy workload placed on the tractor. After a while, not being very attentive to the gauges, I noticed that I had used a lot of fuel! I immediately went into “panic mode”, thinking the worst after a punctured radiator, and 2 flats......my mind immediately went to a ruptured fuel tank! There was fuel running off of the rear of the engine......well above the fuel tank. Thankfully, it wasn’t the tank.....but what! Raising the hood, allowed me to see that a small low pressure fuel line (I presume a tank return line) had become disconnected at a tee! Why....How....but, an easy fix! Seems there’s always a new or unusual challenge! memtb
I had a similar occurence a couple of months back.
Finishing up logging for the day, I returned to the M to find it sitting in a widening puddle of fuel.
I went into hyper drive and hopped in the cab and gunned it for all it was worth towards home which was about a half mile away.
Luckily, or unluckily, the fuel tank holds 23+ gals and was over half full so I made it back with fuel to spare.
I dropped the tank; which entails removing a number of other components too while lying under the tractor.
The return line had been popped off its fitting at the bottom of the tank; probably while skidding logs through slash strewn logging trails.
Had I made a more thorough initial look-see, I likely could have reinstalled the line with out dropping the tank.
Still beats a ruptured tank