Hello all,
We had about four inches of snow yesterday here in southern Ohio. In the morning, it was still clear out so I went out and got my tractor ready. It started normally and ran normally. I let it heat up then drove it out back to switch to the blade. In all it ran around two hours before I parked it in the garage. When I came back out at 7:00 ish, the battery was completely dead. Why would it be dead if I had run it so much earlier? I replaced the battery in the spring, so it's still pretty new. So I put the charger/starter on it and it started up fine. I let it warm up and got to plowing. I did my drive way, but I noticed the headlines were very dim, so I didn't use them. I did however turn them on when I was on the road driving to my neighbor's house to do his driveway. When I was done with his, I turned my lights back on and drove back to my house. I got stuck going up the curb so after getting myself out, I spun a tight circle so I could go in square. While doing this the lights got extremely dim and the engine started to miss. Then when I hit the curb it stalled. We pushed it up the curb just in case someone was driving down our street we didn't want it to be dangerous. Then when I tried to restart, the battery was completely dead. So why was it dead? How did it die when I was running the tractor? Does this tractor use battery powered magnetos? Is my charging system bad? If so, how do I fix it?
On another note, it seems like one of my hydraulic couplers are leaking, is this a hard fix?
Thanks in advance,
Luke
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Fish
Yeah, if I am looking at the correct blowup, the ignition runs off of the battery and not magnets/magnetos, also the headlights will run the battery down too. The blowup shows a couple of blade fuses in the harness, check them first, then you need to find the regulator if the fuses are OK.
