1.) Whats the best way to detect a battery drain on this tractor, which is a '97 model year? I've done the test light thing with each post of the battery and one cable disconnected, ie; negative disconnected, test light connected between battery post and cable. Light is on both ways, and volt meter reads 12.8 or so each side. I tried pulling fuses then used the test light between the negative post and cable, light stayed on. Did not do this with the positive post and cable. I'm assuming this is a negative ground, as positive goes directly to the starter post, negative directly to the solenoid, (mall cylindrical component on top of starter)Nothing is stated in the operators manual.
Charging system seems to be 13.75 volts, but aside from any battery drain, it may just be a failing battery given its of '10 vintage, long before I owned this tractor. Load test shows its week and it dropped from 12.88 volts to 10. something after at least an hour on the trickle charger. Fully charged over night, load test showed its week.
This was a sudden problem, tractor sat inside a heated garage since February, it started fine in May. Parked outside under a tarp, one mouse made a nest behind the instrument cluster, all wires checked out to be intact, + he was not there very long, but there was a huge nest in there when I got the tractor, cleaned all of that off, but the scent draws em right back again, will lay a dryer sheet in there.
2.) Parts diagram shows a fuel sending unit under instrument cluster, but the only tank shown in the parts diagram is looking like a steel one without a fuel gauge sending unit. This has a plastic tank it appears if the fuel leak I have is a gasket in the sending unit just behind the fuse box. I'll have to drain the tank completely and replace the lower and upper gaskets for each component on the tank. Any concern about losing prime? Seems its just on the suction side of the fuel system.
Relatively minor problems, but that fuel residue sure builds up with field chaff, add an electrical problem, it would not take much to ignite. I cleaned it all off, time for an extinguisher to be mounted to the tractor and a low profile blade type shut off installed on the battery.
Charging system seems to be 13.75 volts, but aside from any battery drain, it may just be a failing battery given its of '10 vintage, long before I owned this tractor. Load test shows its week and it dropped from 12.88 volts to 10. something after at least an hour on the trickle charger. Fully charged over night, load test showed its week.
This was a sudden problem, tractor sat inside a heated garage since February, it started fine in May. Parked outside under a tarp, one mouse made a nest behind the instrument cluster, all wires checked out to be intact, + he was not there very long, but there was a huge nest in there when I got the tractor, cleaned all of that off, but the scent draws em right back again, will lay a dryer sheet in there.
2.) Parts diagram shows a fuel sending unit under instrument cluster, but the only tank shown in the parts diagram is looking like a steel one without a fuel gauge sending unit. This has a plastic tank it appears if the fuel leak I have is a gasket in the sending unit just behind the fuse box. I'll have to drain the tank completely and replace the lower and upper gaskets for each component on the tank. Any concern about losing prime? Seems its just on the suction side of the fuel system.
Relatively minor problems, but that fuel residue sure builds up with field chaff, add an electrical problem, it would not take much to ignite. I cleaned it all off, time for an extinguisher to be mounted to the tractor and a low profile blade type shut off installed on the battery.