ok everyone...good stuff.. i just pulled up the seat pad...two wires going to a 8" square flat piece of plastic with 4 little dots in the corners.. i would say when pressure is on that pad..all good...as soon as pressure released, engine quits. As you said earlier...if i connect those two together with a jumper...it may do the trick.. i may wait till after the next snow storm...
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Should be a wiring lead coming out of that pad switch and going to a connector somewhere close by. I'd do my altering at that connector. Such as unplugging it and adding a jumper.
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My Kubota L48 has had that same seat switch bypass (jumper), likely since the day after it was delivered to the original owner.
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I have a B2650, no issue with mine as you are having, but I do have questions. When exactly does it stall, only under duress with a load of some type or in gear? The reason I ask is that I can start my tractor with no one in the seat, does that mean the seat switch is only active under certain conditions?
i can also start mine unseated but there are times when it stalls out if there is not enough weight on the seat. I know that sounds crazy but the position of the seat safety must be ok to allow it to start unseated. There have been times i turned around on the seat to look backwards only to have it stall... It has never stalled under a load and i have hsd. It does sound confusing and im not a mechanic or engineer but it will stall, even if the pto is NOT operating. My wife is a lightweight... and when she drives, it stalls on her continually, thus i put a heavy piece of steel under the pad
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You may have a system that allows starting from off the seat when the gearbox part of the transmission is in neutral. Or your seat switch is stuck ON.
There are numerous scenarios where a simple seat switch that kills the engine is not a good idea by itself. One is when you are operating the PTO while off the tractor, as with a PTO-driven mixer, pump, generator, etc. Another is when you are getting off and on the tractor for sensitive lifting/pulling work.
On a new Bobcat CT230 I once bought, pushing on the brake to engage/disengage the parking brake would lift my rear end just enough to kill the engine. That "feature" had to go right away. It was the seat switch, and I jumpered it.
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very interesting. i cannot fully explain it as it will shut down without running pto or anything else for that matter. And yet i power my wood splitter etc and it runs fine. Someone out there will explain it all...