Posted by NCWayne on March 30, 2014 at 07:45:04 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: Loss of power posted by Paul L Cochran on March 30, 2014 at 07:16:55:
I"ve had similar situations reported to be me several of my customers. Some had done basically the same things you state you have done, ie changed the filters, added new/fresh fuel, etc, etc. In every case the problem turned out to be water in the fuel. All but one of them drew their fuel from their own bulk tank and the tanks had become contaminated with water. So even the "new/fresh" fuel was contaminated so it didn"t fix the problem but only added even more water to the bottom of the tank. For the other guy I have no clue how the water got in his tank other than he was using 5 gallon buckets and one, or more, of them must have had water in it when he stopped to fill them up.
Rarely can you even drain a tank and get all of the water out. Given that, and the fact that most pickups don"t draw directly off the bottom, any water in the tank will stay where it is in the bottom. As a result the engine will run fine on flat ground. However get the machine on a bit of an incline, run over really rough ground, or whatever, and the system will pick up a slug of water. That one slug of water is all it takes to make the engine die out and act crazy until the water passes. Once the water passes it will again run just fine until it picks up another slug of water and the process begins again.
Like I said this has happened to quite a few of my customers in the past few years and it sounds exactly like the symptoms your describing. Solving the problem is as simple as making sure the tank is clean and completely dry before adding known, clean, water free fuel back to it before taking it out for another test.
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