Posted by tjdub on January 17, 2009 at 00:52:15 from (208.74.246.137):
I've never had a problem with my diesel tractors gelling before. Yesterday it was about -20F and my JD 2950 started right up. The block heater had been kicking all day long and it was running just fine. I took off down the road and a few minutes later I was spearing a bale and all of a sudden she just bogged down and I could only maintin about 700 RPM. After a while it died and wouldn't restart. I was able to get it going eventually and got it near a 120v lifeline. Tonight it was 0F so i got it going again but it was not cured. Armed with a flashlight this time I found that there was air in the fuel filter. I bled it and it was cured... for about 10 minutes then it had air in there again. Bled it again and noticed that if I throttled it up to more than about 1000RPM it started pulling streams of air bubbles through the fuel filter. After I fed hay and got it good and warm it was fine and seems to be cured now.
Is this related to fuel gelling, ice in the line, or some other problem?
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