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Oh, For Cryin' Out Loud!!

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Allan in NE

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As everyone already knows, I'd a registered, certified, and USDA inspected IDIOT, so this won't surprise ya a bit.....

Four remotes and four color-coded levers right? Only one remote works, right? Read the book cover to cover right?

Saved this repair for last 'cause I knew it was gonna be an absolute killer to fix. Just about had all my hair pulled out of my pea-brained head when I finally found the problem.......

Not a thing wrong with the tractor; someone had switched those silly color-coded knobs up in the cab.

Geeze,

Allan
 
Sounds like the C-Card snow blower I used to run. I was always getting stuck on flat ground. One day I forgot to shift it into 4 wheel drive and started blowing. That thing walked through the snow bank like nothing. Come to find out, When they built it - They put the 4x4 decals on the console on backwards.
 
Allen reading this cracked me up!

Sometimes we over think it because it just can't be that obvious and simple huh!

I've spent countless hours missing the forest for the trees also.
 
A few weeks ago a buddy brought his straight grain truck over with an air leak behind the dash. So I took the dash out and found small broken plastic air line. Fixed it and reinstalled the dash. When we walked behind the truck the brake lights where on. We looked things over, the pedal was returning fine. So figured the electric brake switch had stuck. So it took us about an hour to find the brake light switch. Unplugged it and the brake lights went out. So we both thought we need a new brake light switch. Opened the door to get the ven number to go get parts. Happened to look up at the steering column. The truck used to be a semi tractor. The trailer brake valve is still mounted under the steering column. He just took the control lever off. When I had the dash out the corner of the panel had hit the brake control and turn it on just a little bit. So just return the brake valve to off and the light went out. Only wasted an hours time for nothing.
 
Student rebuilt a 4.0 Jeep engine in my class one year ago. His team put the engine in but we couldn't get it to crank. Thought we had tried everything, but kept going back to him driving it to the school without problems. He came in to work with me to figure it out with nobody else there. In the quiet shop everytime he tried to crank it the A/C compressor clutch would click. I thought SURELY they wouldn't make the same plug-in for the starter. They did. Switched them and it fired right up.
 
At work I would clean key boards when I had some spare time, I would take the keys off and do a thorough cleaning. One day I mixed up a couple of the keys by mistake. The woman that used the computer was having some problems with trying to run some programs and called in the IS department. It took they quite some time to find that a couple of keys were mixed up. The IS person then went to my keyboard and switched a couple of keys. A couple of weeks later the IS person asked if I was having any problems with my computer. This made me think that she knew something about my computer. I later checked my keyboard and found she moved a couple of keys that I never used.
 
Allan In NE As everyone already knows, I'd a registered, certified, and USDA inspected IDIOT; I didn't know that, so that explains it!!

Hope you got a good nights rest. Now if you had just been tough, put your long johns on, pulled a stocking cap over your ears and used that good lookin' open station tractor this winter, you wouldn't have been sufferin' hair loss.
 
As a long time, highly sucessful idiot, I'm interested in this USDA inspection/certification process you apparently went through Allan. I figure if I'm really good at something, I should at least get the paperwork to prove it! Which dept do I contact? I googled "USDA idiot cetification" and it keeps sending me back to this post.

Inquiry minds want to know...





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Yeah, I would have had he whole thing apart before I found that out! You really hit my funny bone with this one!! Thanks
 
I pulled a keyless door lock assembly out of a car because it wouldn't unlock..worked perfect on the bench..only to discover the child proof lock out was on so a child couldn't open the door from inside
 
Most of the time you need to KISS it first. Keep It Simple Stupid. Or that is what I have figured out for myself. Had a neighbor with a 2440 said it would not start. Cold out so son and I pulled it to my shop. Son said where do we start and I said look in fuel tank. Yep out of diesel. Never over look the obvious.
 
Some of the numbers are worn off of my key board. It doesn't bother me typing but if I look at them while being double sure with a password for instance, I have to run home row through my head to remember which one is what for sure.
 
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