Ferdy Mint
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I'm tired of that little sucker failing on me. I've already replaced it twice on our 1986 Bullnose 6.9 since I bought it in 2017. This last time I lost points bigtime with my wife, who was stranded under a railroad bridge on a little country road, barely any cell service. Of course she was armed, as always. This is Texas. I had to go pull her home on a tow rope. But as you married guys know, the FSS incident is my fault.
I can hear the electric pump start up but the FSS is not clicking with the key anymore, so I'm pretty sure the FSS is inop. Again. Unless you have an automatic tranny, I just don't see the value the FSS brings. If you want to shut off the motor, put the tranny in 4th and let out the clutch. Just like my old IH or Fendt tractors. Stall it out, problem solved.
Anyway, as a debugging measure I'm going out there now to wire it open, safety wire or wire tie etc. If she fires right up, maybe I'll drill and tap a hole in the top case for a screw that goes down from the top and holds the critter open. We run electric lift pumps on our IDIs, so fuel will probably seep out by the threads. Maybe some fuel resistant silicone would help. The fuel level in the 100g bed tank when it's full is higher than the FSS so it would sit there and seep out 20 gallons or so. Oh joy. Bite'm special agent armed EPA fedboyz might come shoot our dogs.
These Stanadyne IPs have been around since Moses and on most tractors they had a manual fuel shutoff with a cable link to the dash, where you pull it to kill the motor. I looked around the web to find one that fits the IDI but doesn't leak diesel if used with a lift pump. So far no luck. Anybody seen that?
I can hear the electric pump start up but the FSS is not clicking with the key anymore, so I'm pretty sure the FSS is inop. Again. Unless you have an automatic tranny, I just don't see the value the FSS brings. If you want to shut off the motor, put the tranny in 4th and let out the clutch. Just like my old IH or Fendt tractors. Stall it out, problem solved.
Anyway, as a debugging measure I'm going out there now to wire it open, safety wire or wire tie etc. If she fires right up, maybe I'll drill and tap a hole in the top case for a screw that goes down from the top and holds the critter open. We run electric lift pumps on our IDIs, so fuel will probably seep out by the threads. Maybe some fuel resistant silicone would help. The fuel level in the 100g bed tank when it's full is higher than the FSS so it would sit there and seep out 20 gallons or so. Oh joy. Bite'm special agent armed EPA fedboyz might come shoot our dogs.
These Stanadyne IPs have been around since Moses and on most tractors they had a manual fuel shutoff with a cable link to the dash, where you pull it to kill the motor. I looked around the web to find one that fits the IDI but doesn't leak diesel if used with a lift pump. So far no luck. Anybody seen that?