THIS WAS IN THE FUEL FILTER!!! YUCK!...WHAT IS IT?

come on dogs come on note hey guys this is Josh darn a rich farmer welcome to part 2 of the John Deere 750 let's go in here so if you'll remember in part 1 which is right here you may want to watch that first if you haven't seen it already our John Deere 750 would run for about 15 minutes and then it would live and die so how frustrating can that be we just did everything right we just serviced it we just made it supposedly run perfect it ran perfect for like 15 minutes and then maybe but everybody just died well we figured out what the problem was and we've also got some more tires some new tires for this thing so I wanted to sell it I wanted to sell it right so it already had one new tire and it was on backwards so we got another new tire and we swapped them all around and we got some good used tires for the front they probably they look like brand new anyhow we're gonna slap these tires on and I'll show you what the problem was with the tractor this is part two of the to be continued all right whoo [Music] [Laughter] so he lucked up when we went to the tire store the guy that owns a tire store had a set of agricultural tires was the exact same size that fit this tractor if you'll remember in the previous video the tires that were on this tractor were all dry rotted and cracked and we're just a mess so we got new tubes and new tires for the front of the tractor we're gonna go ahead and get those mounted up and you know tractor tires are pretty darn heavy I don't know if you guys have worked with a lot of farm equipment or a lot of tractor stuff but it seems that the pretty much universal standard is a lug stud versus a lug nut so we'll get our lug studs in here and I've got my Crocs on so in case I drop a tire on my foot I can crush it instead of being smart and wearing my steel toes I think we're gonna change shoes before we get to the big tire we'll go ahead and get our lug studs started up front here and we've got it sitting up on the jack and we'll lower the jack and we'll go back to the rear and we'll put that monster rear tire on I'm gonna say that rear tire weighs in the neighborhood of 200 pounds and it's not loaded in other words it doesn't have any kind of fluid in it such a small tractor like this probably doesn't need to have loaded tires if you guys have an opinion about that leave it in the video description we're gonna go on the other side of the tractor soon as we get this wheel on and we'll discuss what the issue was with the fuel delivery it was a fuel delivery issue here on the tractor I've drained the fuel tank but inside the fuel tank I guess diesel fuel can get this muck in it and I don't know what kind of muck you call it or exactly what you call it but it can get this slime buildup inside the tank so when we drained it a lot of it came out but not all of it came out so the new fuel filter that we put on that cost 17 bucks clogged up in about 15 minutes not cool so I'll show you what we're doing we've got a little system worked out until we can get all that trash out and then we'll pass it on to the new owner I've been mowing around just to make sure everything works good and trying to kick all that trash out and I'll show you the new little filter system here soon as we get done mounting these tires up all right we'll get front tire number two on and I've been mowing with this tractor so it's covered with dust and dirt now and we're going to go ahead and we'll pressure wash the tractor off before we put it on Craigslist to sell I think price-wise I've done the research on these tractors I haven't found one below 5500 initially I thought about pricing it somewhere in the $5,000 range forty nine nine ninety five and I think that's what we're going to do I think the least we'll grow them take for this tractor is going to be 4,500 I think I was shooting a little too high at 5500 but I think 4500 with the little bush hog it's got a four foot bush hog I think that's probably a pretty good deal so make somebody a good a little tractor for a little small plot of land somebody that has five ten acres something like that a great little tractor great little garden tractor if mrs. Stoney Ridge would let me keep them I'd keep them all that ain't happening buddy damn okay let's talk about this fuel system issue so we took it loose right here and we drain the fuel out well we also took this line that used to go here we took it loose and this is an aftermarket fuel filter system right here okay and it has a little drain underneath there will drain that out here in just a second show you what's in there basically what we did is we took some of these lawnmower filters and put them in line and that way I could watch you can see that one's really crusty so we'll go ahead and change that before we get started here before we run the tractor but what was happening was this thing would cut off the fuel supply and it would starve for fuel and it would die and that's what you were seeing in the last video was just starving for fuel so let's open this guy up and see what it looks like inside there we'll see what kind of yucky mess is coming out of here and what we'll do is we'll go ahead and we'll cap this off really good that way the next owner can just unscrew this filter and go ahead and hook this system back up once all that muck has gotten out of the fuel system okay it has all brand-new fuel in there and it's still just spitting out I don't know you can see it in there when we drain this into a jar you'll really be able to see what the muck looks like I don't know guys you tell me ask Chuck 2009 to come over here and tell me what makes diesel fuel get slime in it what is it is it a bacteria I'm not really sure there's no more water in this tank I've emptied the tank completely out even wiped out a little bit inside of it and I saw no sign or symptom of muck at all but it's still releasing stuff so we put a fuel additive in there that's supposed to eat that stuff up I don't know keep your fingers crossed for me when we sell the tractor we're going to sell it with about five extra little filters like this and that way the next owner can just change those filters until all that muck settles out of this gas tank and the gas tanks really small too it's I'm gonna say in the neighborhood of seven gallons so let's drain this fuel filter out into a jar and show you what's in it all right I got an old mayonnaise jar from the 70s and we'll loosen this little guy up and see what drains out of this fuel filter see what's causing our clod maybe we will there we go like pretty darn good clean diesel to me it looks like clean brand-new diesel there's not a speck of trash in this anywhere now I don't know there's clearly some salami trash in this filter there's clearly a restrictive situation going on because it keeps starving for fuel now once I put the little filters on no more starving for fuel until I can see in this little eye right here that little eye when I see that getting dirty it starts starving for fuel again so let's change that guy I've got some brand new ones I went to the parts store and got some great old big ones we'll get that guy changed out and we'll throw this other tire on and we'll let it run for a little bit and see if we can kick out some more slime I'm just gonna keep running this tractor until it's right I don't want to sell it to somebody and not have it right I want to make it good and that way they don't think I'm a crook and they don't come back knocking on my door thinking they're you screwed me on the tractor I also don't want to depend on the fact that hopefully the person that buys the tractor is a mechanically minded person hopefully all this problem solves itself all right guys so we've got to get this big tire on in order to get this big tire on I can't pick it up on my own I can wrestle with it and hurt my back and that'd be really fun but I think we'll skip that and what we'll do I didn't know I didn't even have a socket big enough to fit in an impact but this is a 27 millimeter I've lowered the jack down this is the handle on the jack I've lowered it down to where I could get the first bolt started and then we've got the tire just about mounted up now what I'll do is I'll pump the jack just a little bit get that tire up off the ground and then we'll get it centered now I'm gonna do a lug pattern of crisscross when I tighten it it's a six lug pattern so I'll crisscross across it might not be necessary for a tractor but definitely necessary for a car let me show you so there's a little hub right here and when you're running lug studs you really have to line it up to sit up on that hub and then you see that wheel walking in that way there we go we'll get one time not real real tight at first you'll just start get a criss cross and now we can go on and tighten them nice and snug I know are you serious tractor guys would be thinking right now now you need to get the specs on that and tighten it down to the right specs with your with your torque wrench nah not gonna do that this thing isn't gonna go over like 15 miles an hour so it'll be alright always keep a check on your lug nuts on your tractor anyway make sure they're all nice and snug got a tire on the right way we're gonna lower the tractor and I'll take you over here will change this fuel filter out I'm glad we found the problem let's get over here and change this fuel filter alright so on this filter is an arrow that says flow okay so flow is that way we're gonna go ahead and we'll disconnect this guy we're gonna put our yuck bucket underneath here to catch any diesel fuel that might spill and then we'll hook it back up alright we've got our crusty trusty kleine-levin in one screwdriver get this guy apart if you don't have one of those screwdrivers you just ain't living right I'm gonna tell you that right now got plenty of flow as you can tell even though that filters clogged up with muck we've got plenty of flow we're just gonna slip this guy back together I'm actually going to take this fuel line off just for a second to let this thing kind of fill up with fuel I'm gonna hold this one upright a little bit let this guy kind of fill up with a little bit of diesel fuel there we go till we get kicking out what's a day without diesel fuel I've got a window to the world of fuel tank slime and I can watch this and whenever it starts getting clogged I'll just change it out again and we'll keep changing until we kick all that slime out I'd imagine it to take about one full tank of fuel to get all that slime out and hopefully the additive I put in the fuel will help and break that stuff down and turn it into something that the engine can digest I'm too big for the tractor now none of this matters at all if the tractor won't fire right up so that's the biggest selling point when you're getting ready try sell a tractor is does it start here we go [Music] guys thanks a lot for watching this part two of the to be continued series on the 750 John Deere tractor I'm gonna rinse it off clean it up it's ready to sell and I feel pretty confident it's gonna do a great job for somebody next tractor we're gonna work on is right over here I'll show you it's the 17 20 the Ford 1720 we'll pull it in here and get it serviced and check out what all the fluids look like in it and hopefully lessons learned I already put a fuel additive in it to help break down any slime that might be in that fuel tank too so thanks a lot guys we'll see you next time on the Stoney Ridge farm I appreciate you pounding that like button subscribe to the channel and we'll see you next time all right whoo [Music]