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dsm137

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Ferguson TO 30 started and ran fine. Started not to crank over and appeared to be drawing higher amperage, cable s by battery getting warm. Cleaned all terminals and replaced starter switch and starter. Still same problem. I can start tractor with crank, so it doesn't appear the problem is beyond basic starting system.
Just ordered new battery cables and starter cable and waiting for them to come.
ANY IDEAS?
still original 12 volt system. Only change was the ground, which I cleaned and am going to put back to the original braided cable when it arrives.
Please give me some thoughts on this, I am a bit miffed and have now gone through two new starters.
Thanks!
 
6V system uses over sized cables for one. Get a set of jumper cables and make some temporary connections from
pos to pos and try a different ground location. Say the engine block instead of the back of the dash as can be
found in some cases.
 
positive is grounded to the bolt mounting the dash. will try to jump it, did not get anywhere with the battery charger. really strange as boom, all of a sudden this started to happen. thanks!
 
Checked things out further and found Positive, ground wire, getting hot top to bottom. Negative a little warm by battery terminal.
Starter will click and give about a half spin groan.
Bad Ground? Bad Cable?
Cleaned everything off.
 
Have you checked out the starter switch where the cables attach. It may have gone bad. Two small bolts take it off after you remove the
cables. Tractor supply and auto motive parts stores carry new ones.
 
Believe it or not, Three bad starters. One worked for 6 months, two bad right out of the box. All came from ebay from reliable tractorparts.

Got this one from yesterdays Tractor. Hooked it up and working perfectly. How aggravating was this making me go over the whole system just to find out two bad ones in a row!

The bad boy runs now!!
 
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