Success!

[Fred Werring]

Bought a non-running Ford 3000 diesel a few months ago. Would crank, but no start.

Guy showed me a receipt where he had a new injector pump installed a few years ago, but then things happened and the tractor sat. Figured there couldn't be that much wrong with it

Found out it had grown what's referred to as algae (a bacteria) in the tank. Cleaned that stuff up, new filter, had fuel to the pump but no high pressure out of the lines.

Took top cover off, metering valve was stuck, freed it up, still no high pressure.

Figured What have I got to lose? I'll try to fix it before I send it to somebody who knows what he's doing.

A couple youtube videos, googleing, stripped it down, probably took 50 pics on my phone as I went so I knew how it went back together (and they came in handy) found the plungers were stuck just from sitting.

No algae goop to be seen, apparently hadn't made it to the pump.

O ring that seals the pump head in the housing had stretched. Tried boiling it, did shrink it some, but still managed to pinch/cut it. Can't believe it worked as it was only 1/16 thick, but was able to super glue it . Had to try, NH wants $22 for those things.

Put back together, put it on the 3000 while running out of daylight (really wanted to see if it would work)...SUCCESS!
Was grinning ear to ear when it fired up.

Seems like most things I've worked on this summer went sideways on me, it was nice to have something go well

 

[Geo-TH,In]

Good for you. You didn't give up.
That has to feel good to say Success!

 

[Steve@Advance]

Good to hear!

Ive had a couple of them apart that were stuck up. White gummy residue, never found anything that would cut it, had to be scraped and scrubbed out!

Sure feels good to have one come to life!

 

[Bill(Wis)]

that'a a nice looking tractor. But please don't tell us you're going to replace your WD with that.

 

[Hobo,NC]

Cool!

 

[J Hamilton]

Glad you got it going. For all that work, I
would have paid the 22 bucks for the correct
part rather than risking the super glue
repair. Just my opinion

 

[drummer481]

Always nice when it runs.

 

[Fred Werring]

The super glue repair meant I could put it back together now.
Buying the correct part would have been next week.
And found that an 037 oring....$11 for 50 of them.... is very close dimensionally to the factory oring at $22 each.
I bet an 037 would have worked..hope I never need to find out

 

[Fred Werring]

You may have the wrong guy.

This is getting added to the stable of Fords..49 8n, 64 4000, 69 4000, 69 5000, 71 5000, 78? 8700.

Didn't really need it...but it was offered to me for $1500, what was I gonna do?

And if you have to swap implements around, you don't have enough tractors, right?

Needs rear rims, already acquired centers and rims to change it from spin outs.

 

[SweetFeet]

Nice tractor.... and good job.

 

[Phil9N3667]

Someone on the site likes to say
YouTube is your friend!. You
certainly proved that,
congratulations on getting it
running!!

 

[Check Break]

(quoted from post at 04:53:12 09/03/22) Bought a non-running Ford 3000 diesel a few months ago. Would crank, but no start.

It's a great feeling when she fires off. Just did the same thing with my 4000. This new ULSD is going to take out a lot of older fuel systems so there's going to be more of those to add to your stable. Start adding a shock dose of biocide to all of your fuel tanks so you can keep acquiring while others are liquidating.

 

[37 chief]

Success with anything mechanical is a good feeling all right. Stan

 

[Fred Werring]

Start adding a shock dose of biocide to all of your fuel tanks so you can keep acquiring while others are liquidating.[/quote]

I had never run across "algae" before. Never want to mess with that nasty goo again. The bottle of algaecide I bought said it had enough to treat my bulk tanks...so I did.

 

[Fred Werring]

(quoted from post at 15:12:53 09/03/22) Someone on the site likes to say
YouTube is your friend!.!

One of the first things that went in my shop after I built it was a computer with internet.

Between Youtube and Google, not a whole lot that can't be fixed.

I know I'll yearn for "back in the day" at times, but sure don't want to give up my internet.

 

[Check Break]

(quoted from post at 09:30:30 09/03/22) Start adding a shock dose of biocide to all of your fuel tanks so you can keep acquiring while others are liquidating.

I had never run across "algae" before. Never want to mess with that nasty goo again. The bottle of algaecide I bought said it had enough to treat my bulk tanks...so I did.[/quote]

That's a smart move. I refused to add biocide for ten years believing that clean fuel would stay clean, not knowing that a reduction in sulphur promotes biological activity. I may have got off lucky, with only one, maybe two injection pumps needing a major tear down. I just bought a Ford 4200 that has been sitting for over 15 years. I'll know soon enough, but I'm betting there's no biology in the fuel tank as there was no ULSD when it was parked.

 

[560Dennis]

Bravo ,good for you ,good post ,successful

 

[oldtanker]

Glad it worked out for you.

Rick