Posted by Rich'sToys on August 05, 2022 at 09:18:43 from (173.84.79.209):
Last winter I did an alternator conversion on my Minneapolis Moline 445. Everything worked great and I used it a few times this spring. Then I parked it and it hasn't been used for several months. This morning I went to start it and it was totally dead! Tried jump starting it off the pickup--when I hooked the cables up there were sparks all over the place and the cables instantly got red hot in the time it took me to unhook them again.
The battery is about 3 1/2 years old. Tried hooking the charger to it and it wouldn't work either.
Looking for ideas. Bad battery, or something else? The conversion was done the same as my other tractors and in accordance with several different diagrams that have been posted here. Everything worked fine until now.
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