Tractor engine leak

[The jiffle king]

Hi, I’m not mechanical and my Ford 4600 tractor has a leak. It’s not on the engine and it’s not the oil filter. Trying to work out if it’s the oil pump

I’m really trying to temporarily stop it leaking as there is a lot of oil that could drip and my agricultural repair shop is not open until tomorrow

A couple of images





Anyone can help me shut off the oil to this as it has a leak underneath which has a fairly constant drip

[The jiffle king]

This is a better view. Green line is where the leak is

[rxe]

The thing you’re circling is the injector pump.

Do you have a diesel leak or engine oil leak?

[The jiffle king]

Thankyou. It is oil as it does not smell like diesel

[The jiffle king]

I’ve turned off the diesel froM the fuel tank

[Vintagejock]

That type of injection pump is not lubricated by engine oil, depends upon the fuel. More likely passing the gasket between it and the timing case.

[The jiffle king]

ive called my local farmer (Hans - you may know him RXE) and he had put me onto someone to fix it but I need to go and check the smell again ( just finished with Covid so not very good)

[sunbeam alpine]

That's definitely the fuel pump.

[The jiffle king]

I’ve turned off the fuel tank

Thanks all for the replies

[The jiffle king]

So it’s the fuel pump and it’s stopped leaking.

My post covid sense of smell must be way out as I could have sworn it was oil

Will post update when done

[The jiffle king]

So the Tractor man came out and it was a leaking fuel hose which was running fuel onto the injector pump (and there were small pools behind which were holding the fuel.

A bit of new fuel hose and all sorted (He did check there was no crack in the housing)