Bd154 no fuel

[Tiger Joe]

Have an old IH3444 backhoe with I believe the BD154 diesel. Thing always ran great until 6-8 months ago. Just won’t start. Spins over great just doesn’t fire.

Tried some quick searching here is what I did:

1- I cracked both bleeder screws on pump. I have fuel spraying out great with cranking.

2- removing injector line- no fuel.

So I found some posts could be the shutoff stuck? How do I unstick? Do I remove the injection pump lid?

 

[Dieseltech]

If the rotor plungers are stuck removing the lid won't do any good. ANY traces of water in fuel or Bio diesel will make the plungers stick after setting unused for a short time. I repair a lot of pumps with stuck plungers from setting awhile unused.

 

[Tiger Joe]

Def never ran bio in it. Only thing would be water.

Is there anything that can be done on the machine? I really hate to spend any money on this. I was thinking of selling it earlier this year but the no start kinda stopped that thinking

 

[Tiger Joe]

ok update- i removed the lid, and found the pump was filthy inside. dirt/rust/who knows what. so at this point im fairly certain its going to have to come off.

question- is there any specific timing setup i should set this thing on to pull it? I did look through the little window and i see i believe letters A-H with corresponding lines. my manual for hoe is mum as to timing the pump. i did find some info through googling that says to set the line for G to align with the lower tip of snap ring?

 

[Dieseltech]

I think that pump is like some Ford and Perkins engines that have a three bolt drive gear/hub design with a gear pin that aligns with the hub face notch to keep it in time, so NO flywheel timing is needed. Just make a note of where the pump flange scribe line is near the timing gear case scribe line, and replace the pump back where it is now.