hey guys newbie my 2350 1600 hrs. running fine then died. acted ran out of fuel smuttered little white smoke wont start. tried all basic fuel,air opened lines fuel running afraid might be pump but how to check thanks in advanced
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From your brief explanation it's hard to get a full read on what happened.
Did it die suddenly like you pulled the stop or did it just bog down then die?
It would be very very unlikely to be anything with the injection pump or even the injectors.
It could be the lift pump, but that easily checked.
Pull the line off the side of the injection pump, crank tractor and you should be getting pulses of fuel out of the line.
Pull the line off that feeds the lift pump good fuel flow there?
What was the fuel level when it happened?
Been treating your fuel?
Has it been run consistently?
Do you store fuel for a long time?
Did it die suddenly like you pulled the stop or did it just bog down then die?
It would be very very unlikely to be anything with the injection pump or even the injectors.
It could be the lift pump, but that easily checked.
Pull the line off the side of the injection pump, crank tractor and you should be getting pulses of fuel out of the line.
Pull the line off that feeds the lift pump good fuel flow there?
What was the fuel level when it happened?
Been treating your fuel?
Has it been run consistently?
Do you store fuel for a long time?
ran fine bogged down about forty feet just like running out of fuel puffed white smoke maybe a puff blue then died fuel good level about 3/8 tank
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Fuel contamination:
Water in fuel
Algae in fuel
Debri in fuel tank or lines or filter
Have you pulled the fuel filter and checked for water and condition of filter?
Water in fuel
Algae in fuel
Debri in fuel tank or lines or filter
Have you pulled the fuel filter and checked for water and condition of filter?
ran fine bogged down like out of fuel white smoke puffing ran about 40 feet 3/8 tank of fu
not yet new filter last year just couple hours on it but thats first place only thing done was crack open bleeder lines abit fuel coming out thanks so much but ran fine for 30-min but sat for a few months before hand
Sounds suspiciously like contaminated fuel.
I'd drain the tank of remaining fuel, discard.
Inspect tank for any water residue or algae. If good, replace fuel filter.
Add new diesel, bleed the system at the two factory points (per manual).
Try to start (with fully charged battery). Bet it will run.
I'd drain the tank of remaining fuel, discard.
Inspect tank for any water residue or algae. If good, replace fuel filter.
Add new diesel, bleed the system at the two factory points (per manual).
Try to start (with fully charged battery). Bet it will run.
The bleeding process is all 'Gravity feed'.....so pretty simple on the L2350.
Replace fuel filter. Loosen the 'bleeder' at the fuel filter housing and let fuel flow until no bubbles/air is present....tighten.
Follow the fuel line to the Pump and do the same thing there (loosen bleeder and let fuel flow until no bubbles/air, then tighten).
With battery fully charged: Run glow plugs for a period of time (depending on how cold 15-45 seconds) and then crank engine. Give it a little time to push fuel up to the injectors.
Replace fuel filter. Loosen the 'bleeder' at the fuel filter housing and let fuel flow until no bubbles/air is present....tighten.
Follow the fuel line to the Pump and do the same thing there (loosen bleeder and let fuel flow until no bubbles/air, then tighten).
With battery fully charged: Run glow plugs for a period of time (depending on how cold 15-45 seconds) and then crank engine. Give it a little time to push fuel up to the injectors.
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Fuel issue or contamination. I must ask this question as I have found it at least eight times this year servicing tractors. Be sure it's not full of gas.
gas = a fundamental state of matter such as air, including nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, water vapor…. etc.
gasoline = a flammable normally used as a fuel for spark-ignited engines…but which can destroy compression-ignited engines such as diesels. Sometimes spoken colloquially abbreviated as “gas”.
gasoline = a flammable normally used as a fuel for spark-ignited engines…but which can destroy compression-ignited engines such as diesels. Sometimes spoken colloquially abbreviated as “gas”.
Your pictures demonstrating the procedure are excellent.
Many who post pictures of a problem area of their machine post a close up (if a picture at all) and unless you're working on that model are not familiar enough to know what their showing. You have a distant picture showing the layout, then a close up of the actual process and wrench size deserve a "Best in Pictures" award !!!
Revisiting this for Posterity's Sake.
We never heard back from the OP (not unusual for New Member posts), but I had the occasion myself just this morning to troubleshoot a 'loss of power' issue on my L2350DT. So will share that with you.
I was mowing pasture and the tractor started struggling. Engine didn't sound quite right. Then it progressively got worse until it died altogether.
It would start again, but run for only few seconds and then die. Fuel filter was new (maybe 10 hrs on it) yet this seemed very much to be a fuel issue.
There is no lift/transfer pump on a L2350....so logic dictates an obstruction or bad fuel. Tractor had been running fine just the day before. However I topped off the fuel tank at the end of the day and put the tractor up.
So....I pulled the fuel filter and emptied it. Full of watery looking diesel and some rust! I use a filter type funnel each time I fill the fuel tank and it is 'supposed' to catch water. Apparently NOT!
So for those having the same issue I would suggest first looking to see if you have fuel at the Injector Pump.
It is the farthest component from the fuel tank.....so just crack the bleeder screw there, back it off some and see if you have gravity fed fuel.
If so...then you probably don't have any obstructions (if fuel flow was good). At that point you can go directly to the fuel filter and inspect what comes out of that.
Bad diesel (like I got) will definitely shut you down, but is an easy fix on this tractor.
Drain tank, blow it out. New fuel, new fuel filter, bleed air from filter housing and injection pump, good to go.
We never heard back from the OP (not unusual for New Member posts), but I had the occasion myself just this morning to troubleshoot a 'loss of power' issue on my L2350DT. So will share that with you.
I was mowing pasture and the tractor started struggling. Engine didn't sound quite right. Then it progressively got worse until it died altogether.
It would start again, but run for only few seconds and then die. Fuel filter was new (maybe 10 hrs on it) yet this seemed very much to be a fuel issue.
There is no lift/transfer pump on a L2350....so logic dictates an obstruction or bad fuel. Tractor had been running fine just the day before. However I topped off the fuel tank at the end of the day and put the tractor up.
So....I pulled the fuel filter and emptied it. Full of watery looking diesel and some rust! I use a filter type funnel each time I fill the fuel tank and it is 'supposed' to catch water. Apparently NOT!
So for those having the same issue I would suggest first looking to see if you have fuel at the Injector Pump.
It is the farthest component from the fuel tank.....so just crack the bleeder screw there, back it off some and see if you have gravity fed fuel.
If so...then you probably don't have any obstructions (if fuel flow was good). At that point you can go directly to the fuel filter and inspect what comes out of that.
Bad diesel (like I got) will definitely shut you down, but is an easy fix on this tractor.
Drain tank, blow it out. New fuel, new fuel filter, bleed air from filter housing and injection pump, good to go.