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Mid-GA Outdoor 
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Posted: 01 Sep 2011 at 8:57pm |
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ok i do tractor work and have a job that i dont think my ford 1510 can run the 5ft mower for b/e its thick grass. how much fuel (GAS) does the d17 burn in 8 hours? how big is the tank. also i have a leak around the gage. can i just take it out and put some RTV around it and put it back? thanks much
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Stan IL&TN
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Posted: 01 Sep 2011 at 9:11pm |
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4.5 gallon max fuel use per hour. Tank holds 19 gallons. RTV is a band-aid, you will need to replace the gasket for a long term fix.
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DSeries4
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Posted: 01 Sep 2011 at 9:13pm |
The harder you work the tractor, the more it is going to drink. I think the tank is close to 20 gallons, but do not know the real number. AGCO sells the gasket for the gas guage - no RTV needed.
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Mid-GA Outdoor
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Posted: 01 Sep 2011 at 9:21pm |
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holy sh!t, whats the tracor worth at fair condition and doesnt smoke. starts and runs every time.
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Orange Blood
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Posted: 01 Sep 2011 at 9:24pm |
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A decent 17 running in street clothes that is a series 1 2 or 3 should bring about 3 grand depenging on tinwork and gear jumping. A series 4, no telling, they go crazy from 3 to 6 grand.
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skip(MO)
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Posted: 01 Sep 2011 at 10:24pm |
don't bother w/ RTV. i did that and now i have chunks of orange flecks in the sediment bowl.
tank capacity is either 19 or 21. whatever it is, our old car was the other....i guess i'm getting old enough to get easily confused.
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Posted: 01 Sep 2011 at 10:40pm |
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just cant believe it gets 4 gallons to an hour.
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Posted: 01 Sep 2011 at 11:28pm |
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Way back we used a D17 gas to pull a 4-14" moldboard plow. It would burn close to 40 gallons in a 10 hour day. Gas was around 45-50 cents a gallon then so ran the tractor for $20/day.
Edited by dualquads - 01 Sep 2011 at 11:33pm
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Posted: 02 Sep 2011 at 7:20pm |
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my tank dowesnt seem that big tho. mines a series 1. i put in close to a gallon today and stuck a stick in it and it was about 2 onches of fuel on the stick.
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Brian Jasper co. Ia
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Posted: 02 Sep 2011 at 10:31pm |
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RTV will dissolve in gas in a matter of maybe 1 minute. Just pull the gauge and run to the hardware or auto parts store and get an o ring that fits around the gauge. Where it seals to the tank it's round.
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Posted: 02 Sep 2011 at 10:46pm |
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19 gallon tank.
The tractor should burn a maximum of 4 gallons per hour under heavy plowing.
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