I recently acquired a 1984 Belarus 400A tractor and have begun a few minor fixes on it. I ran into a problem that I believe to be the ignition switch. The tractor will crank by grounding out at the solenoid, but not with the key ignition. The ignition switch is a 4 pole and I purchased a new universal 4 pole switch to replace it with. My problem is identifying what wires go to where. The old switch is not labled like the new one. With a tester, I found the battery wire, but when I turn the switch to crank position, the other three poles all get power, thereby preventing me from knowing which wire does what. I found the wire that goes to the solenoid, which broke off the fuse box. Rather than pull out the fuse box and re-solder the wire on, would it be safe to just connect it directly to one of the poles on the ignition switch, by-passing the fuse box? I could always put an inline fuse in the wire. A quick fix would also be to install a starter button and not even use the ignition switch except to heat up the glow plug. Which do you think would be best, without a major castrophe repair project?
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