The lovely Mrs_Bob and I go out of town for like 9 days. I come home to a lawn tractor stuck in the yard, GASOLINE tank full of diesel fuel, dead grass from the puddle of diesel she spilled around the tractor. Of course it is stuck on a side slope under an oak tree with low hanging branches.
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Drag it up to the workshop with the big tractor and drain the diesel. MOST of it ended up back into the diesel can that it came from.
There are 3 fuel lines. One from the pump to the carb. One from the filter to the pump. One from the tank to the filter. Disconnected all of them, drained each. Blew out the fuel pump.
New fuel filter installed.
Refilled the tank with gas.
Charged the brand freaking new $200 battery that was drained because she kept "cranking" the engine until the battery died.
She did mention one puff of WHITE smoke.
So since it was diesel, which is basically oil, I knew the engine was well lubed, which explains the white smoke. With everything drained, charged and properly fueled with GASOLINE, i set about restarting it.
Cranking . . . cranking . . . cranking to suck fuel from the tank UP to the pump, then to the engine. Starts to sputter. Then lots of white smoke from the residue diesel now mixing with gasoline. Ran it for nearly a minute with WHITE SMOKE blowing out the exhaust. Rough then smoother then smooth and finally no more white smoke.
Honestly I think it is more trouble to leave and go on vacation than to stay at home.
Took about 3 hours total, but that included a trip to the store to get a new filter.
And did I mention that the pool is green because, despite the detailed instructions that said PUT CHLORINE TABLETS IN THE FLOATING THING every 3rd day, there was literally ZERO chlorine in the pool . . . and the algae bloom was in full swing and took 10# of chlorine shock to kill off before I started that project?!?
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Drag it up to the workshop with the big tractor and drain the diesel. MOST of it ended up back into the diesel can that it came from.
There are 3 fuel lines. One from the pump to the carb. One from the filter to the pump. One from the tank to the filter. Disconnected all of them, drained each. Blew out the fuel pump.
New fuel filter installed.
Refilled the tank with gas.
Charged the brand freaking new $200 battery that was drained because she kept "cranking" the engine until the battery died.
She did mention one puff of WHITE smoke.
So since it was diesel, which is basically oil, I knew the engine was well lubed, which explains the white smoke. With everything drained, charged and properly fueled with GASOLINE, i set about restarting it.
Cranking . . . cranking . . . cranking to suck fuel from the tank UP to the pump, then to the engine. Starts to sputter. Then lots of white smoke from the residue diesel now mixing with gasoline. Ran it for nearly a minute with WHITE SMOKE blowing out the exhaust. Rough then smoother then smooth and finally no more white smoke.
Honestly I think it is more trouble to leave and go on vacation than to stay at home.
Took about 3 hours total, but that included a trip to the store to get a new filter.
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