Fix it, man.

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I fixed it.

Sort of.

I think.

I'm talking about my tractor, and had I not taken the fuel pump apart, I would be plowing under the mess that is the back 40 right now, instead of writing this.  But I did, and I now need a fuel pump rebuild kit because parts went missing.

Oh well.  When you're trying to rebuild something in the middle of the field (literally), things happen.

My tractor had a fuel problem, which I was able to finally determine, was the screen that used to be on the barbed fitting that goes into the fuel tank.  I determined that the fuel wasn't getting to the carb when I took it half-apart and noticed there was no fuel in the carb bowl.  I'd cleaned out the fuel line (so I thought) with compressed air, so thought it was probably a clogged fuel pump.  I took it apart and checked it and tried (and failed) to put it back together.  You really can't use the gaskets on these types of parts again, and I knew that.  But hey, I'll try anything once.

After finding no debris in the fuel pump, I tried to drain the gas tank into a gas can with the fuel line.  That didn't work, so that's when I decided to pull the fitting out of the gas tank.  Sure enough, that old screen had deteriorated into a blob of rusted metal which was clogging the fuel line.

That's why my tractor wouldn't run.

It will as soon as I get the replacement fuel pump kit.  Sometime next week, I hope, and then I can get started on the back 40.

Which is a mess.


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