SPIKER
Elite Member
today I went out to the farm to work on my broken down car. it was one of those this is bad so pull & replace then find this other part bad ect ect as the day went. Wind blowing alot too. well about 4 pm I went over to the barn and hear my JINMA running all on its own. I parked it yesterday pulled the key & hooked up the battery maintainer as I wants planning on running it for a while. It had a half tank or so of fuel after I parked it yesterday. Well I am not sure WHAT or HOW it managed to fire up as it was parked for a good half hr prior to me locking up the barn for the night. I am not sure if the maintainer clamp slid down and hit the starter sol post or not? I yanked the terminal off when I got out and heard the tractor running. the battery was 100$% DOA would not even power up the gauges after I shut it off. It was still running and very warm barn was full of fumes and from what I could tell there cant be a lot of fuel left in it.
I'm going to assume that the starter staid spinning full time until the battery died so I'm thinking the flywheel & starter may be shot When I hooked up the charger booster (not the small maintainer) a little while later the charger acted as if there was a dead short so not sure if it was in the battery or the starter melted down at this point or am not sure that it was not a bad key switch or the maintainer shorted on the starter sol?
any suggestions as to what to look for first??? Has anyone else ever heard of this happening?
2002 jinma 284 w. 450 hrs factory battery was still good until this indecent not a lot of issues that have not been outright abuse of the tractor until this point..
thanks all..
MarkM
I'm going to assume that the starter staid spinning full time until the battery died so I'm thinking the flywheel & starter may be shot When I hooked up the charger booster (not the small maintainer) a little while later the charger acted as if there was a dead short so not sure if it was in the battery or the starter melted down at this point or am not sure that it was not a bad key switch or the maintainer shorted on the starter sol?
any suggestions as to what to look for first??? Has anyone else ever heard of this happening?
2002 jinma 284 w. 450 hrs factory battery was still good until this indecent not a lot of issues that have not been outright abuse of the tractor until this point..
thanks all..
MarkM