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Hello all,
I'm not sure if I'm guilty of doing something that I shouldn't done? I was using my JD 4100 that I've owned since new this past weekend. I was moving gravel from pile to other side of property with bucket. I turned the tractor off with the load still in the bucket about two feet off the ground so tractor wouldn't free wheel backwards. Five minutes later I tried to start tractor and the tractor had just a little bit of "juice" to the starter. I tried to jump battery with two different marine batteries with no success. Finally I jumped from my Suburban, while running, to the tractor's battery. It started right up. I ran it and used bucket to move gravel for another 1/2 hour. After I parked it in the garage I tried to re-start tractor, no "juice" again. I don't believe it's the battery, especially when I jumped it with other working batteries with no success. I'm assuming the running truck has more amps to start than the other batteries. Question, does this sound like a relay issue? If so...which one? Tractor has worked flawlessly and well since new. Ideas? Thanks very much.
Rick
I'm not sure if I'm guilty of doing something that I shouldn't done? I was using my JD 4100 that I've owned since new this past weekend. I was moving gravel from pile to other side of property with bucket. I turned the tractor off with the load still in the bucket about two feet off the ground so tractor wouldn't free wheel backwards. Five minutes later I tried to start tractor and the tractor had just a little bit of "juice" to the starter. I tried to jump battery with two different marine batteries with no success. Finally I jumped from my Suburban, while running, to the tractor's battery. It started right up. I ran it and used bucket to move gravel for another 1/2 hour. After I parked it in the garage I tried to re-start tractor, no "juice" again. I don't believe it's the battery, especially when I jumped it with other working batteries with no success. I'm assuming the running truck has more amps to start than the other batteries. Question, does this sound like a relay issue? If so...which one? Tractor has worked flawlessly and well since new. Ideas? Thanks very much.
Rick