Ford 1300

pcather,
I don't think the battery or glow plugs have anything to do with your problem. I have a 1300 and it will run with the key turned off. Once the engine is running there is no need for battery power or glow plugs to keep it running. I'd check the fuel system thoroughly.
It sounds like dirt or water in the fuel system. It sounds like the engine is starving for fuel.

We had a Ford NAA once that did something very similar. It would run just fine for about 5 minutes then sputter and die. We played around with the thing off and on for a couple months. We finally found a piece of plastic (Saran Wrap) in the gas tank. It floated to the top with the engine off but as soon as you started the tractor it would get sucked down againts the fuel pick-up.

Hi,
Thanks for the information, I will check the fuel system out. I wonder if it could be the fuel itself. I was using Highway fuel grade, then tried some farm/off road RED grade, bought at a regular gas station near work. Then i have a friend that works on a OIL rig, and he got me some of there Red diesel. i put that in, i used it once or twice after adding that to the tank, and a few weeks maybe a month later the No Run problem started.
Anyway, after it died on me the first time i added regular Highway grade stuff to the tank, and didn't help.
Maybe that oil field stuff is whats causing my problem. i will try flushing out the tank, system, apply some injector cleaner, refuel with Highway grade diesel and see what happens.

Hope its not the Pump, can't afford a rebuild at this time, or injectors either for that matter

best regards... Paul

When you changed the fuel filter, did you make note of the number of, and location of all of the o-rings and put them back in the same places? Some fuel filters are used in multiple tractor models, so they come with all possible o-rings for all possible installation configurations, and not all tractors should use all of them. I have heard of this with a number of different Ford models, and you might have an extra o-ring in there that shouldn't be there that might be blocking the fuel flow.

Re: Ford 1300 when started wont stay running

The engine stumbling and died while driving down the drive, i got it running, and died again about 5 minutes later using the finish mower on back.
That's when i replaced the fuel filter, figuring that was the problem. It didn't help as you can see from previous postings above.

How do i check the injector pump for function? without messing something up?
just remove the line/lines between it and injectors? and crank her over and see what happens? How should discharge look? roughly as in what sort of discharge should i expect to see a consistent drop/drip, i'm sure it wont just spray out of the pump even at full throttle just wondering how to maybe tell if pump is bad.

Thanks.. Paul

Hi,
Just a followup on my Ford 1300 that wouldn't run/stay running. Well, It runs fine now.

None of the lights on my tractor work. and can just barely see the glow plug indicator do its thing.

Anyway, It turns out that if the OIL level is too low, it will not run! I should of kept a better eye on oil level, luckily nothing was damaged.

pcather said:

Hello Everyone,
I have a Ford 1300 that i'm having problems with! Utilized the following steps.

1) charged battery
2) engaged Glow Plug
3) started engine

4) engine ran maybe 1-2 minutes, and started lousing power, and died. changed throttle position while it was still running to see if problem went away, it did not!

Figured if i slowed it down, if it was starving for fuel it would smooth out and run, didn't work :-(

5) it has a new Diesel filter in it, and fuel flows out of pet kock on pump, so i know its getting fuel.

Any ideas why it would die on me? once it dies, it is even harder to get it to start/run again at all.

6) It has new Glow plugs in it. thought this might of been the problem of hard starts.

7) What is the basic theory of engine operation? once the engine is running.
what keeps it running, are the glow plugs still keeping the fire going?
or is it just the injector pump, and injectors firing that keeps it going?

I was hoping the manual i download from the group earlier would have a troubleshooting section, but didn't find one in it :-(

Please help if you can thanks..., Paul

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Just went through this same issue with my 1300, after draining the tank and putting fresh fuel in, and swapping the glow plugs I started putting high air pressure on the fuel system starting at the gas tank and ending on the injectors, even though id pulled everything apart I still didn't know what I should be seeing, working close with the manual I finally concluded the problem was my injector pump and my injectors, finally got the pump going by soaking it in B12 chemtool and running guitar strings through it, don't forget to pull the governor piece out of the top front left, that was a big part of my problem, and be very careful when pulling the pistons out easy to loose parts, had problems with the injectors sticking once I got the injector pump going, and you can't find replacements anywhere, OK at this point I've saved an estimated $500 by not taking to a diesel repair shop then I fire it up and these things keep running with the key off, well it goes into total throttle runaway, what I found out later from my manual is that the injector pump column is controlled by the gasket thickness, they call it timing, what the **** it has to do with timing is anybody's guess but I can tell you running it too thin and you have problems, fortunately I had my own gasket material, so I made one out of three, and silicones them together being careful not to clog anything with silicon as a matter of fact I let the silicon dry for 24 hours before I bolted it down so it wouldn't squash out into the functional area. Other than the intermittent sticking injectors it kicks ***, have awesome fuel pressure, everything works great, so roll your sleeves up are load it up bend over and run it to a diesel specialist. Cost me $0 vs $500. Good luck and God bless.