JD Rant

[504]

Just a small gripe, I have had fuel pick ups break off on three or four JDs over the years(430,455,318). I got the smaller mowers running this year and then I serviced my F-932 and made it half way around the house and it quit. I took the carb apart and it was clean as can be,(electric fuel pump is pumping gas)(was also pumping some bubbles) so I filled one gas tank to the top and it runs. I pulled the sending unit and the pick up hose is gone then I pulled the other tank and sending unit and it is gone! By the time JD built this one they had used silicone pick up lines and the ethanol had not hurt the lines, the tight wads did not use any clamps on the hoses and they both fell off and were in the tanks. Mowing with a 48in deck is too slow,good to be back on the 60.

 

[Az peapicker]

Know what you mean . I asked a Distrubitor one time why the manufactures didn t put Anti Seeze on all the Axles before installing the wheels so a cusyomer could remove it when necessary ? He told me that for what it would cost per unit it could either make or break a selling Contract.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

I've replaced a couple of those fuel lines with regular fuel line and that solves the problem.