M9540 Primer Knob

Bailybryant

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Equipment
Kubota m9540
Jan 6, 2024
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Mississippi
My primer knob on top of fuel filter housing is slow to rise back up. I’ve got it to pump twice in the past 20 minutes. Any tips.
 

Bailybryant

New member

Equipment
Kubota m9540
Jan 6, 2024
2
0
1
Mississippi
You can take it apart and lube the o-ring. When pumping are you venting ?
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I’m not sure if it’s venting or not. I ended up taking the inlet fuel line off of the filter base and it pumped fine then and released all pressure on the knob. Then to get it to prime I had to bypass the water separator and went straight from the tank to the mechanical fuel pump. It still would not prime. I poured either to it and never caught prime. Then my primer knob popped up and it primed up fine and ran like a top. My guess is I had a a lot of air in the line somewhere. Looking back I should have unscrewed the water seperator glass to see if I could have bled air there.