CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
So.... some of you have been following my little project. I thought maybe my learning curve could help some of us shade tree mechanics that get stuck having to do some of our own work.
Pretty much my plight up here. I guess the closest Vermeer or Bandit service is about 3 hours out. Hell bringing all that weight back up 3000 feet in elevation as well.
No good diesel mechanics up here. Save maybe the better part of an hour over in the next village .....
Some tractor dealers down in the valley could maybe take it on, but again.... mixed reviews.
The story goes something like this. Chipper is on a job site for a week (two actually next door to each other. All was going well until the very end of the job. Show up the last day and the chipper is a no start. Ran fine the day before.
Very discouraging. We are almost 5000 feet in elevation in a small community in the national forest. Bit of a drive from home base.
After getting it home and tinkering about, we figure out it is probably a fuel issue. Start with filters and work our wy through the system. Come to find out there are more filters than visible. Dig in.
Check lift pump, buy new one, same result. Re check old one proper and it is ok. Soooooooooooo
Everything would prime even. Use motor to prime the HP lines to the injectors. Seems cool... Starts up... idles, dies. Or just tries to start. Lose prime every time in the injection pump. Also the injection pump seems to 1) not have what I feel would be enough pressure, and 2)like the spurts to each injector come and go. Sometimes just one, sometimes 2, sometimes 4.... weird. Has to be the pump. It was. But then another problem come up![Shifty :/: :/:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/vbulletin/aaf_shifty.gif)
Anyway, had it rebuilt. 1 year warranty.
Here is a little vid tour.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3XfOlQiWAIY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
And some tips about Banjo Fittings/Bolts that gave me fits. Not like I can just run out and get this stuff.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n9WvS-BvC78" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Hope this helps someone sometime if they go through it.....
Sorry the one video came out sideways.![dontknow :dontknow: :dontknow:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/vbulletin/dontknow.gif)
Pretty much my plight up here. I guess the closest Vermeer or Bandit service is about 3 hours out. Hell bringing all that weight back up 3000 feet in elevation as well.
No good diesel mechanics up here. Save maybe the better part of an hour over in the next village .....
Some tractor dealers down in the valley could maybe take it on, but again.... mixed reviews.
The story goes something like this. Chipper is on a job site for a week (two actually next door to each other. All was going well until the very end of the job. Show up the last day and the chipper is a no start. Ran fine the day before.
Very discouraging. We are almost 5000 feet in elevation in a small community in the national forest. Bit of a drive from home base.
After getting it home and tinkering about, we figure out it is probably a fuel issue. Start with filters and work our wy through the system. Come to find out there are more filters than visible. Dig in.
Check lift pump, buy new one, same result. Re check old one proper and it is ok. Soooooooooooo
Everything would prime even. Use motor to prime the HP lines to the injectors. Seems cool... Starts up... idles, dies. Or just tries to start. Lose prime every time in the injection pump. Also the injection pump seems to 1) not have what I feel would be enough pressure, and 2)like the spurts to each injector come and go. Sometimes just one, sometimes 2, sometimes 4.... weird. Has to be the pump. It was. But then another problem come up
![Shifty :/: :/:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/vbulletin/aaf_shifty.gif)
Anyway, had it rebuilt. 1 year warranty.
Here is a little vid tour.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3XfOlQiWAIY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
And some tips about Banjo Fittings/Bolts that gave me fits. Not like I can just run out and get this stuff.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n9WvS-BvC78" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Hope this helps someone sometime if they go through it.....
Sorry the one video came out sideways.
![dontknow :dontknow: :dontknow:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/vbulletin/dontknow.gif)