Fuel system

[mrwgtsr]

My Kubota L3200DT with 76 hours on it shut down after running it for 2 hours using a Bush Hog RDTH60 finishing mower. I checked the fuel flow to the filter, it was fine, checked fuel filter, it was fine. Still wouldn't start. Towed it to dealer, and they tried starting it on the trailer, and it wouldn't start. They kept it, and found trash in the rail that feeds the injectors. I thought that keeping the fuel filter changed should have prevented this from happening, but evidently not. Any one else ever had this problem?

 

[whitetiger]

Your tractor does not have a fuel rail, just a simple manual injection pump. Was the trash in the fuel filter head?
Where do you get your fuel filters from?

 

[200mph]

It’s easy to miss the o-ring used to seal the ID on some filters. If it is bad or missing foreign matter can get past.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

I would say with that few of hours on that old of a tractor it sits alot!
I'll bet the "trash" was algae, and if it started to grow after the filter then no amont of filtering would cure it.

Treat you fuel and system with an algicide treatment.

 

[mrwgtsr]

i got some bad diesel at the service station I used to fill up at. It also messed up my 07 F350 6.0L diesel.
It was the Diesel from the service station and not algae. Filters on truck were full of sand and trash from the bottom of the service station tanks. Unfortunately I didn't catch this until a few months later, after i had destroyed the receipt.