new battery box and cables for the m5

carvel minne farmer

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built a new battery box and installed it just below the starter, built 2 new battery cables using 2/0 welding cable, when you hit the starter button now it's running before you can lift your finger!! :)
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that is a true statement joe, I see it on a regular basis in my work repairing welders, I own a small welder repair shop and mainly work on Lincoln and miller engine driven welders, when I get in a poor or hard starting welder one of the first things I check is both battery cables, I grab and flex the cables and if they are hard and have melted insulation I change them out, usually to a bigger size, clean all the connections and the [posts, load test the battery and the majority of times that solves the poor starting issues before I ever look at the starter. one thing I spotted with the m5 was the location of the battery at the right rear fender, it had about a 16" negative ground cable and the positive to the starter was over 6' long. to me that's to big a difference in length, the neg. cable was hard and stiff and I could see where the pos. cable had hot(melted) spots along it's length. clean connections, the proper size cable (or even bigger) will keep your equipment starting like they should.
 
See you have circ heater. We always ran the in- block heaters in diesels and of course
never used in our Canadian winters. Gasser should be an easy start with the pictured
battery. Prestolite starter was weak point. If ever backfired will break cone on starter.
More common to happen when LP converted to gas due to higher compression heads. Maybe a
little over doing with gauge of cable but!
 
(quoted from post at 18:23:06 09/28/17) See you have circ heater. We always ran the in- block heaters in diesels and of course
never used in our Canadian winters. Gasser should be an easy start with the pictured
battery. Prestolite starter was weak point. If ever backfired will break cone on starter.
More common to happen when LP converted to gas due to higher compression heads. Maybe a
little over doing with gauge of cable but!
welding cable is purpose built to handle high current volumes gb. the fine strand and the number of conductors in each cable transfer current far better than factory battery cables and that's why they turn hard and get full of burn spots. if I am going to use this tractor in the winter gb. I will add a few items, a 100 watt battery blanket, a battery sitting at -20 only has 1/2 it's rated capacity available! a 100 watt battery blanket will keep the battery toasty warm in -40. I will also put cat canvas sides on the tractor right up to the seat from the front. and add a 100 watt trouble light bulb under the carb and manifold, works wonders in starting with a warm carb and manifold! and of course not to forget the 100 watt magnetic pan heater on the oil pan. I have gone out in -40 and started my old case 310b you saw me raking with and gone out plowing snow or pulled out some wannabe indy 500 driver that has gone flying off the road in front of our place! no choke, just touch the starter and she's running. now I have just given away all my cold weather starting tricks! and your welcome.
 
I did forget one thing gb. I always use 1000 or 1500 watt circ heaters as they keep the whole block warm not just the small area that a block heater do's. I have seen snow melting off the hood of the 310b in -30!! the 310b has the winters off now since I got the 1845c skidsteer, I custom built a front door, added 2 big heaters in the cab, plexiglassed the sides and back window. side curtains for the engine bay and I can cruise along plowing snow in -40 with a wind in my t shirt and jeans. the 1845 sits in my heated shop of course in the winter, just jump in hit the button hook up my 8' hla blade and head out plowing. getting to old to sit on a freezing tractor seat in -40 anymore! :lol:
 
You need a set of half tracks for M5. There was a 670 up your way with the kit. There is a
Jetstar 2 east of here with a set. Sure will pull! Know about current, electronics tech by
trade 40 years now.
 
not a fan of track equipment gb. I watch my friend Erick with his landscaping business and he has 2 track machines a acv. and a bobcat on tracks and the money he pours into keeping tracks on both machines is crazy a new set of tracks for the acv with idlers and rollers is over $7000.00!! I can put 7 sets of new tires on my 1845c for that money. don't get me wrong gb. tracks certainly have their place if your working in wet or soft ground. thankfully here at my place I'm on firm ground.
 
Tracks I am talking about are muskeg tracks. They don't use idlers. They have set of rubber
wheels/rims mounted under belly. Metal cupped tracks like tire chains go over the rear
rubber and around actual rims with tires in the middle. They should be little maintenance
not like on a crawler.
 

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