A Reader Talks About Issues With His Deere Buck 4-Wheelers

A Reader Talks About Issues With His Deere Buck 4-Wheelers ATV S Doug Clark Ilderton Ontario: “In your last issue a reader talked about issues with his two Deere Buck 4-wheelers He said “One of them dies whenever the engine heats up then 30 min later it’ll start up and run a little longer before the engine quits again ” I’m not a mechanic but I’d like to suggest that this issue is very common on smaller John Deere equipment “I think the fact that it stops when heated up misleads the mechanics because it has nothing to do with the problem which is likely to be that the pencil screen on the end of the fuel intake line is so covered with crud that it actually shuts off the fuel and kills the engine Whether the engine cools down or not it will start again after several minutes because the vacuum in the fuel line drops enough to let the crud drop off at least the top of the pencil valve and fuel is then able to get back into the line – until the pencil valve gets plugged again stopping the engine “You can solve the problem by unscrewing the fuel line from the dirty Deere fuel tank and the pencil screen should come out with the line Just clean the crud off the screen with a blow gun and drain out the tank This should solve the problem for a few years until crud builds up again in the tank ”

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