Owned an Oliver for 4 days and I already need help

jmandrze · Nov 14, 2015

Finally got time today to get the 1755 off the trailer. So last night I hooked up a battery tender to make sure the battery was good to go this morning. Hit the key and nothing, not a click just nothing. So I got the wife out of bed and had her in the cab and tried jumping across the starter, again nothing. So after dinking around for a while I decide to look at the switch and find that there are no wires connected to the switch. I assume they rattled loose on the ride home. I look at the manual and look at the wires and switch and for whatever reason I am just not making the connection, mentally or physically. Below are pictures of the back of the switch, the wires and the wiring diagrams from the manuals. Please help me out, I am struggling today.

Jason

J. Schwiebert · Nov 14, 2015

All you need to start it is a hot wire to the battery terminal which should be a dark green or a black wire It has to be hot so use a meter or a test light to confirm that. The pink wire should go to the sol terminal. Some of those 55 series tractors had a neutral safety switch which was in the transmission and some had one on the clutch linkage so check to see which one you have. You have a phone number since you are in southern MI.

gdb · Nov 14, 2015

My 1755 has both safety switches. One on clutch pedal and one on the gear shift.

jmandrze · Nov 15, 2015

Update. Got the ignition squared away and the trans safety switch wires were broken so those got re-wired. Thanks Mr. S. Got it fired up and ran it for about an hour, got it warm and found the leak. Now the bad news, after it sat for a few hours. I went to move it into the barn and after about 10 mins there was a small thermal incident. The oil pressure sender line burnt off its insulation. One of the rat’s nest of wires in the dash must be hot and contacted the line and away we went. Had the extinguisher in hand pretty quick. Pulled it out and disconnected battery to be safe.

Jason

RC Brooks · Nov 16, 2015

I'd say heck and clean your grounds. Most of the time on older machinery when wires start burning, there's a bad ground causing the resistance. I'd also recommend opening up an electrical tape wraps. Solder all pigtails (get rid of the pig tails) and cover with heat shrink.

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