I've had my tractor a little over a year and the more I look at it the more things I find that the previous owner jacked up! When I bought it, the guy told me "I don't think the alternator is working right.... the light stays on on the dash and I sometimes have to charge the battery if it's set up for a while..." Well, since I've had it, I've only had to chagre the battery twice. The second time I realized the battery was dry as a bone. I filled it up, gave it a charge and haven't had a problem since. So, i'm prettty sure the alternator is working correctly, but I'd like to see if I can get the light to go off on the dash. I tried to make some since of the shop manual wireing diagrams, but I'm pretty lost there. It does look to me that there should be 3 or 4 wires coming off the alternator. I have 2. See the pictures below... the wire with the push on connector is runing to the black box on the firewall (regulator?). the other wire (nut on connector) is running into a bundle of wires covered with elecrtictal tape. I've got to sort those out when I get time. Can anyone tell me what wires are missing and where these two are supposed to go? Ultamately I'd like to have this all corrected and all the wires running in shrink tubing or something better than electrical tape!!!
Thanks!
jb
Thanks!
jb