BrotherJoe
Member
Hi folks,
I've got a 68 3020 diesel that's giving me some odd behavior. All winter (and we had a cold one) it did great firing up--but I could tell it was laboring a bit to start even with the
heater on towards the end. Spring days arrived and the batteries were clearly ailing. Couple weeks ago I went out to start it and it was done--so I put the charger on the batteries
overnight, next morning, no joy. Buddy with the magic wrench came over and after some fussing around testing, we decided it was the starter.
Full rebuild--new brushes, new armature, armature was in bad shape. New batteries. Get it put on, thing fires up like a dream! It's been suffering for a while.
Go finish chores with running tractor.. park in barn, key off, kill motor. Decide to move, engage key, push starter, starter kicks--keeps going with key off! Frantically get 1/2 wrench
disco battery. Start fussing with everything--discover with some sleuthing that the tractor will turn over if I run the light switch. It will stop if I spin the switch around a bit.
My first thought is bad switch. But, how often does that happen? Lots of working around in the dash, those connectors are old and nasty, I discovered I had to zip-tie one of them
together to keep things connected, even after cleaning, after replacing the starter button this winter.
So, I don't think it's a stuck solenoid, but, I'm suspicious of grounding since clearly something is floating high and then engaging the starter.
Thanks,
J
I've got a 68 3020 diesel that's giving me some odd behavior. All winter (and we had a cold one) it did great firing up--but I could tell it was laboring a bit to start even with the
heater on towards the end. Spring days arrived and the batteries were clearly ailing. Couple weeks ago I went out to start it and it was done--so I put the charger on the batteries
overnight, next morning, no joy. Buddy with the magic wrench came over and after some fussing around testing, we decided it was the starter.
Full rebuild--new brushes, new armature, armature was in bad shape. New batteries. Get it put on, thing fires up like a dream! It's been suffering for a while.
Go finish chores with running tractor.. park in barn, key off, kill motor. Decide to move, engage key, push starter, starter kicks--keeps going with key off! Frantically get 1/2 wrench
disco battery. Start fussing with everything--discover with some sleuthing that the tractor will turn over if I run the light switch. It will stop if I spin the switch around a bit.
My first thought is bad switch. But, how often does that happen? Lots of working around in the dash, those connectors are old and nasty, I discovered I had to zip-tie one of them
together to keep things connected, even after cleaning, after replacing the starter button this winter.
So, I don't think it's a stuck solenoid, but, I'm suspicious of grounding since clearly something is floating high and then engaging the starter.
Thanks,
J