312-a

[Brian pelphrey 4]

I have a 312-a I also have a dozer blade on it!! It does great going down hill!! But when I try to go up hill it dies!!! Will not run!! Can back up the hill and it does fine!!! Driving me crazy!!! Any ideas?

[Sparky-(Admin) 22,269]

If you have manual lift (not hydraulic lift) then you have the Eaton 700 hydro and not the stronger/heavy duty Eaton 1100. It's possible your hydro is toast. But before you condemn it I would check all the linkage to be sure nothing's binding up.

  Mike....

[Jerry77 1,218]

6 hours ago, Brian pelphrey said:

I have a 312-a I also have a dozer blade on it!! It does great going down hill!! But when I try to go up hill it dies!!! Will not run!! Can back up the hill and it does fine!!! Driving me crazy!!! Any ideas?

Just a thought: could it have anything to do with the low oil switch?   Does the engine have plenty of oil? and how steep is the hill?       and :  

[gwest_ca-(File Mod) 11,276]

The low oil switch is in the starter circuit. Interrupts the power to the starter solenoid when the oil is low.

Wondering if the fuel pump is bad. The fuel tank is lower than the carburetor and even lower when trying to drive up a hill.

 

Garry

[953 nut 58,259]

        A fuel pump or improper carburetor float setting could do this. Also a bit of junk in the fuel tank could be getting to the tank outlet, take a look. I would start with a new fuel line with a filter,  ethanol-free gas, and some Seafoam fuel additive.

[ericj 1,578]

is the trans noisy ? the eaton 700 trans are known to be a weak trans. but I think if it would slow down going forward it would slow down in reverse also. Does the motor loose RPM at all. I had a 312-A and I bought it knowing the trans was weak. I ran it for years at my place because it is fairly level ground. When I took it up to my wife's grandma's place she had some small but steep banks. The hotter the tractor got the slower it would climb the banks and the trans made a fairly loud whining noise the whole time that I owned it. One other way I've come to able to tell if the trans is bad is, if you can push the tractor by hand. A good trans you can not push unless you push the motion control lever all the way forward, then it pushes very hard unless the tractor has not been run for a long time. A bad trans you can just push with ease. good luck

 

 

 

 

 

 

eric j  

[pfrederi 18,382]

Please describe "Dies"  Is it the engines stalls or stumbles or does it just lose power and refuse to move.  Two wildly different issues.

[Brian pelphrey 4]

it is just not getting any gas going up hill forward!! you can back up the hill and it is fine and go down hill all day and it is fine. but when ou turn it around to go up hill forward it just doesn't get any gas at all!!!!    I have cleaned the carborator, cleaned the furl pump looked good!!!  put a new fuel filter on it, and it still runs it out of gas when you go uphill!!!! 

7 hours ago, pfrederi said:

Please describe "Dies"  Is it the engines stalls or stumbles or does it just lose power and refuse to move.  Two wildly different issues.

it is just not getting any gas going up hill forward!! you can back up the hill and it is fine and go down hill all day and it is fine. but when ou turn it around to go up hill forward it just doesn't get any gas at all!!!!    I have cleaned the carborator, cleaned the furl pump looked good!!!  put a new fuel filter on it, and it still runs it out of gas when you go uphill!!!! 

[pfrederi 18,382]

First check fuel pump  remove  fuel line into carb and crank engine should spurt out. 

 

Did you check the carb float setting?

[Brian pelphrey 4]

Thanks for all the help!!!  adjusted the Carb float setting and so far it seems to be doing great!!!!!!  really appreciate all the help!!!!!