tassie_tea20
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Hi Guys,
I'm still on my quest to get this old Fergy fired up but I have a question about the wiring system on it. Electrics are not my strong point when it comes to working on things. I don't have a battery for it yet so have only tried jump starting it from another vehicle. The tractor has been converted to 12V at some stage and also had a push button starter installed. I'm assuming this is a negative earth setup? The black battery terminal is bolted directly to behind the dash and the positive runs directly to one side of the push button starter? The other side of the push starter has a wire that runs directly to the starter. There is also a red cable that runs off the back of the push started to the amperes gauge. A wire then comes off the back of this gauge and splits into all the various other connections. The only way I have tried to start it thus far is by attaching the jump leads directly from the hose vehicles battery terminals to the terminal leads on the Fergy (assuming i'm actually connecting + to + and - to -). I'm not sure if this is even the right way to do so. Anyway, when I have it connected in this manner with the toggle switch turned on there is light to the dash light and the amperes gauge needle moves up a bit. When i push the started button the starter motor initially makes this big sort of gradual wind up sound. The engine turns over after a few seconds although it seems to be doing so what seems kind of slowly to me. I've never seen one running up close so I don't know how hard it should be trying to turn over? Would it even turn over like this if I had the battery leads connected up backwards? I've attached a couple of pics. If anyone can explain some of this to me I'd be extremely grateful. Apologies if what I've written is all of gibberish, as i mentioned i'm not great with electrics. Thanks for any help! Ferg
I'm still on my quest to get this old Fergy fired up but I have a question about the wiring system on it. Electrics are not my strong point when it comes to working on things. I don't have a battery for it yet so have only tried jump starting it from another vehicle. The tractor has been converted to 12V at some stage and also had a push button starter installed. I'm assuming this is a negative earth setup? The black battery terminal is bolted directly to behind the dash and the positive runs directly to one side of the push button starter? The other side of the push starter has a wire that runs directly to the starter. There is also a red cable that runs off the back of the push started to the amperes gauge. A wire then comes off the back of this gauge and splits into all the various other connections. The only way I have tried to start it thus far is by attaching the jump leads directly from the hose vehicles battery terminals to the terminal leads on the Fergy (assuming i'm actually connecting + to + and - to -). I'm not sure if this is even the right way to do so. Anyway, when I have it connected in this manner with the toggle switch turned on there is light to the dash light and the amperes gauge needle moves up a bit. When i push the started button the starter motor initially makes this big sort of gradual wind up sound. The engine turns over after a few seconds although it seems to be doing so what seems kind of slowly to me. I've never seen one running up close so I don't know how hard it should be trying to turn over? Would it even turn over like this if I had the battery leads connected up backwards? I've attached a couple of pics. If anyone can explain some of this to me I'd be extremely grateful. Apologies if what I've written is all of gibberish, as i mentioned i'm not great with electrics. Thanks for any help! Ferg