Francisco Jimenez explains how to maintain a tractor's fuel system to prevent power loss. Water and fungus buildup in the tank are common culprits. Proper treatments available at John Deere locations can keep your fuel system running right.
Is your tractor losing power? Part of owning a tractor is maintaining your fuel system and the machine. We all think about changing oil, greasing the tractor, changing the air filter and so forth like that. Most of us don't think of anything above and beyond changing the fuel filter as maintaining our fuel system. And some other products John Deere offers. We have some things to help fight fungus growing in your fuel system. You know, to treat water and so forth like that. And this short video is about why we do that. So we've removed the tire and the fender to make this easier to see. But this is the fuel outlet line coming out of a 5045E and what we end up with is this blow. So as you can see on the strainer inside this tank, it is picking up all kinds of fungus growing upon it. And that's all because we failed to maintain our fuel in our tractor, not just the tractor. Alright, believe it or not, we talked about fuel systems. The importance maintaining your fuel system and your fuel and your tractors today. These samples of fuel came out of this tractor. It's got 146 hours. Customer doesn't use it a whole lot, but as you can see, this is what we got out of the bottom of the fuel tank. A few simple steps of maintenance of the fuel system prevent this kind of a situation. It's a lot easier to maintain our fuel system than it is to repair our state of the art fuel systems in these tractors today. This stuff here going through your fuel system will cause costly repairs and damage that can't easily be fixed in the field. Now, in order to prevent this, this is part of your normal maintenance procedure. Just like changing oil, maintaining your fuel system, draining the water off the fuel system, making sure we put the proper treatments in our fuel is just as important as changing oil today. You can visit any of our 21 locations to purchase the proper treatment for your situation today. To prevent these kind of instances.
