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DRP
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# Posted: 13 Dec 2025 07:40pm
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I cannot, I've never been into either of those. Which points out, a lifetime is not enough!  . My little experience with bay is the leaves which are ovate/lanceolate and should be removed from the sauce when serving
I did get the skidsteer to light today but probably should have run some kerosene through it, I think it has summer diesel and it had gelled... that's the working guess right now. Mid afternoon after some glo plug, hail mary's, grinding on the starter for friction, charger to keep the battery up and it finally fired up. I got the creek debris to the burn pile. The Kaboom is a disposable 8.2liter Detroit rebuild with no heat or glo plugs. Mechanics claim its best use is to hold a boat in place, it gets treated like a red headed stepchild and lights anytime it can spin over, go figger.
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paulz
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# Posted: 15 Dec 2025 03:01pm
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Bit of good news on the generator. Yesterday around 4pm, 50f or so, it fired first try, and only a couple seconds cranking, no aids or heat. Of course I had no need for the juice, still felt good. So good that this morning, 39f, I tried again. Again first try, spun a bit longer, 10-15 seconds maybe.
This genny sat in my shed since given to me, at least two years ago with a half tank of fuel. Did some reading on diesel longevity, maybe a year. I had put fresh diesel in a few days ago, maybe it’s made its way through. Got more rounds of wood to split, fingers crossed.
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DRP
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# Posted: 15 Dec 2025 08:19pm
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Cool beans! Always nice to resurrect an engine. On age, I think there are trilobites in the bottom of a few of my tanks. I've fired up on some really old fuel before. I don't think you get cold enough to gel. Water has been the biggest fuel related problem for me with diesel.
Often enough I'll spin the engine over then wait a good blessing's time or so for the friction to warm the block a little, often it'll catch on the next crank without having to grind on the starter for too long.
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paulz
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# Posted: 16 Dec 2025 09:50am
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Quoting: DRP the engine over then wait a good blessing's time or so for the friction to warm the block a little, often it'll catch on the next crank without having to grind on the starter for too long.
Good idea, I think I’ll try that on my still dead diesel backhoe, probably put that off until spring warm up.
Diesel genny started up well again yesterday just for a test. Log splitting has to wait for a day, big confusing cabin wiring job today. Looking forward to getting back to log splitting, something I’m good at.
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paulz
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2025 01:37pm
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Split the last of my cut rounds. Still don’t know what those are. Genny fired up right away. Whatever hangover it had went away. Now if the dead backhoe would just do that..
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2025 07:15pm
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It has been maybe a couple month now since I last ran my JD 1025R (3 cyl Yanmar diesel) and we've just come off a couple weeks of well below normal temps for here in sc WI. Yesterday and today we have close to 40*f so today we went to cabin, I hiked in (snowed out) and gave the tractor 3x on the glow plug and it popped right off. I was able to clear the driveway with my FEL and rear grading blade (300ish') in an hour and my wife followed me back in.
I was very pleased to see how it started as Im not a diesel guy. It did start running a bit ragged after ~1/2hr in so I throttled back to 1/2 and let it run until it 'cleared', idk, maybe it sucked some moisture from the tank which says 1/4 full. It did clear and worked fine then. I have the jug so I will get 3 gal of fresh road winter diesel, hope that helps.
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paulz
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2025 08:19pm - Edited by: paulz
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Congrats on the work. Started my running gas tractor (1950s MF) today just to check. The rear scraper seized a hinge bolt, had to hack and press it out. Got a friend coming next week to help put it back. Lots of ground work to do.
Building my cabin and property I had all three of these usable every day. Now, I gave the dozer to a neighbor kid, that diesel always started. The deisel backhoe is the one that won’t start. Leaves me with the gas FEL/scraper.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2025 10:45am
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Quoting: gcrank1 It did start running a bit ragged after ~1/2hr in
You probably know this... the 1025r has a small pre-filter under the left floorboard. These are prone to clogging. Mine started running rough one day and a quick look under that floorboard confirmed a nasty filter. Changed it out... no shut-off from the tank so have to clamp the fuel line... has ran fine ever since. I keep a couple of the filters on hand.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2025 10:57am
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YES, the 'hidden filter'  I have to wonder how many of the 10 series end up at the dealer for that!
Ive changed it a couple times (only 270hrs on the 2019 unit, last change about 50hrs ago.
I have wondered if, when doing so, the tank should be drained and flushed too.
I believe that tiny, lawn tractor sized filter was an afterthought, and that is giving JD the benefit of the doubt. As I understand it, that little filter is to catch contaminants before they reach the pump which then flows to the Big, Proper filter at the engine before the injectors.
I really should research again online for what others have done to better that little filter set up.
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