Things you find in gas tanks
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Topic: Things you find in gas tanks
Posted By: Don(MO)
Subject: Things you find in gas tanks
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2015 at 5:57pm
Like this big old yellow jacket, it's been fermented and hard as a rock that I found in a WD gas tank. lol ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
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Posted By: David G.
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2015 at 6:18pm
| Thats enough to drive a man crazy trying to figure out why his tractor runs a little while and quits. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2015 at 7:26pm
| I hadda big ole carpenter Bee (Bumble bee) that would suck down the drain, when the tank was about a quarter full, on the D-14. Bout drove me crazy one fall. Stuck a camera down into the tank to see him, pulled him out with one of them choke cable grabber things... |
Posted By: jkoby
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2015 at 8:20pm
| Had the plastic cap for a five gallon gas can break off several years ago. Forgot about it until the tractor wouldn't run. Found it stuck in the valve for the fuel shutoff recently. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2015 at 8:45pm
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Asian Beetles the last few Autumns ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2015 at 9:10pm
| How about 2 gallons of dirty water. The 190 i receantl got kept having water in the sediment bulb. I pulled it out in the past some one had added a 2' tall tube to the valve. I pulled it and got 2 gallons of water out of the right side. put a new valve in and draind it every day for a few days. now I get clean fuel out. Ill change the left one in the spring. it too cold to mess with it right now. looking in the fuel cap it looks like they put about a 10' tall tube on it. |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2015 at 10:00pm
| why do ya'll leave the caps off yer tanks? how do them bugs gits in there? lol |
Posted By: mruhlig77
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 7:44am
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I had a plastic button off a coat show up in a D-15... would run until it sucked back in the hole...if you know there is a riser in your tank..you need to flush it once in a while by taking the sediment bowl off completely...Mark |
Posted By: alleyyooper
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 7:51am
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Ford 5000 I bought had developed a seam leak during the winter so I just put a little fuel in it to do some thing till late spring. I removed it after draining all I could out of it. After I removed it I turned it up side down to plug the out let and do the cleaning then add seal. Some thing was rattling around in there and I wasn't able to shake it out I get a flash lite and look inside and find not one but two of those fuel can caps with the plastic thingies so they don't fall off the spout. http://smg.photobucket.com/user/oldgrumpy/media/my%20tractors/090613_0789_zps2a128a39.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">   Al
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Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 9:29am
This was not one of mine tractors.lol But if I had a big old bee come around as I was filling a tank I'd let him have the tractor for as long as he needed it.lmao ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
SHAMELESS wrote:Posted By: sparky
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 9:39am
10-4 on the BEE!!!  I'd let the bee have the tractor also Don, I let an entire army of jellow jackets have a WD-45 and bush hog one time. Merry Christmas everybody.------------- It's the color tractor my grandpa had! |
Posted By: Dek Thorne
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 9:45am
| The only thing i ever find in gas tanks is holes. |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 9:55am
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Feed sack strings and strips. Plastic hydraulic hose caps. Electrical tape. Asian beetles. Don't know how any of it got in the tanks. Also a 9170 that had a dollop of silicone floating around in the tank. That was a factory screw up. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: JimD
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 10:09am
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I've recovered many fuel gauges. Well, actually just sticks, but I bet I know how they got there. ------------- Owner of http://www.OKtractor.com" rel="nofollow - OKtractor.com PM for an instant response on parts. Open M-F 9-6 Central. We have new and used parts. 877-378-6543 |
Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 5:26pm
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Jim sounds like a case of stick to short... Well I haven't found anything bad in my tank since I started using a funnel with a strainer before that I found several bits of grass in the carb that didn't help the needle seat any better.. bit filling it up in the middle of the hay field I'd didn't surprise me much. |
Posted By: Don(MI)
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 8:19pm
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Can't believe I haven't read this yet....an END WRENCH!! ------------- Galatians 5:22-24 "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!" |
Posted By: Wdtractorman
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 9:46pm
| When I bough grandpas cub off grandma ( yeah wrong color I know ) my uncle had tock it to his house for some reason, It been siting a few yard in his yard when I got it. I got all kinds of sicks rocks and acorns and stuff out of its gas tank. Compliments of my little cousins I'm guessing lol. |