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My sons and I recovered a 5 ton tractor from Ft Meade 2 weeks ago that encountered issues on the way home. We arrived at Meade at 0800 and was greeted by Sarah and her crew. We were escorted to the upper lot and found the tractor. It was inhabited with wasps and they had to go. After that the boys did the pre-trip inspection, dumped in 10 more gallons of fuel in the passenger tank, threw on a tag and off we went. The truck is one of the nicer trucks that I have seen at Meade and ran like a Rolex. I drove the parts and tool vehicle while Sean and Matt drove the tractor. Well we stopped and topped off the tank and around the Baltimore beltway we went. 15 miles from home Matt stated waying and we pulled over. The tractor had lost power and stopped. The cause: out of fuel. Well just the tank being pulled out of ran MT. Matt pulled the filter and primed it, we switched tanks and still is would not fire. I had always heard that these are a bear to get primed but we had to learn the hard way. It was now tow time. We rounded up a tow bar, another 5 ton and took the tractor to the farm acrosss the street. For several days afterwards I tried to prime the system per the TM and service manual. So on Saturday I set up a small diapram pump, used the deuce for ana air source and did the following.
1. Pulled filter, cleaned bowl and reinstalled.
2. Blew air from the filter inlet to each tank to verify the lines were clear, corrected marrked and that the selector swithch was not leaking.
3. Transferred all fuel to the drivers tank.
4. Broke the hose at the lift pump, and pulled a suction and fuel sysyem and primed it from the drivers tank.
5. Once I had a steady flow from the tank , thru the pump and back into the tank, I shut off the pump and reconnected the lift pump hose.
6. Hit swithch and it fired right up and again, ran like a Rolex again.
Sean put the truck immediately to work moving hay on the farm. Someday I may get to drive this again, but for now its a farm truck.
1. Pulled filter, cleaned bowl and reinstalled.
2. Blew air from the filter inlet to each tank to verify the lines were clear, corrected marrked and that the selector swithch was not leaking.
3. Transferred all fuel to the drivers tank.
4. Broke the hose at the lift pump, and pulled a suction and fuel sysyem and primed it from the drivers tank.
5. Once I had a steady flow from the tank , thru the pump and back into the tank, I shut off the pump and reconnected the lift pump hose.
6. Hit swithch and it fired right up and again, ran like a Rolex again.
Sean put the truck immediately to work moving hay on the farm. Someday I may get to drive this again, but for now its a farm truck.
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