Ok, now I’m even more confused. After putting the fuse in and removing it, the behavior has changed.
Let me explain:
- when I opened the fuse panel this morning the spot for the 15amp key stop fuse was empty. So it had been empty for the few weeks that I’ve owned the tractor and I’ve started and obviously stopped it a dozen times.
Today, I inserted a 15amp fuse in that blank and tested it and as I said in my opening post, staring and shutting down worked fine and actually no different the without the fuse. Just the solenoid click sound can be heard when the fuse was used.
Later today, I removed the fuse and started the tractor... HOWEVER NOW... the tractor engine will not shut off when I turn off the key. I had to insert the fuse while it was running to be able to shut it off.
So... clearly the previous owner had done something to rig this, but I’m even more perplexed now assuming that my inserting this fuse has ‘undone’ whatever was rigged... ??