Coyote machine
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It is not supposed to work that way, Mine will not crank with the selector in any gear. Tested it this afternoon. when I got on it and tried to started it up, and without thinking I just turned the key, and it would not crank, it was in L, moved the lever to N and she fired right up. No smoking no sputtering, but it is NOT cold here, must be at least 60 degrees, what a contrast to yesterday, never got above 34, and windy, misty and followed by a cold rain most of the night, but when the sun came out about 10 this morning, it really warmed up. I could be wrong, but my personal feeling is that your no start problem has nothing to do with the range selector sensor.
James K0UA
I have to respectfully disagree on this one James. The OP says he can crank in all gears, which should never happen. I suspect that if he looks closely there is either wire damage by mice or something similar causing intermittent and erroneous start in any gear conditions, or the pot is just bad and causing the symptoms.
The PTO lockout is functioning correctly - as should the 'pot' controlled gear selector when in L/M/H.
There could be other issues with wiring that have not yet been discovered, so until the OP does some wire tracing I believe we've done what we can to diagnose this problem.
If this were my tractor I'd make real sure I put it in neutral and locked the brake until this issue is solved. Keep any bystanders way away too.