Hello from North Carolina

[blasley]

Hi All,

My name is Brian and I'm from Greensboro NC. My wife and I are in the process of building a home on 6 wooded acres with a long (800 foot) gravel driveway. I am an engineer by degree and enjoy the outdoors, camping and hiking, and my hobbies are welding yardart and trying to learn blacksmithing.

I have just purchased a 2000 JD 790 which needs a few repairs so I was hoping to find some tips here to help with that. If anyone as any experience with a dashboard that has illumination lights and a working tachometer but the warning lights and gas gauge as well as the temperature gauge not working Id appreciate your knowledge. I haven't even started to check the fuses yet. I just ordered an operators manual and I might try and find a service manual to help me as well.

The sway control on the 3 PT hitch arms needs work as well as I think they are frozen with rust and not properly adjusted because the scrape blade hooked up to it made the arms hit the tires.

One of the hazard flashing lights isn't working so I need to figure that out.

So that's whats going on here. I've read several threads on here and have found much knowledge already. I hope I can contribute some of what I find out as a first time tractor owner.

Thanks

Brian

 

[Wagtail]

G'day Mate and welcome to TBN from Downunder.

Enjoy the site... someone will be along to advise you shortly (we're a helpful bunch here).

 

[mguitas]

:welcome:

 

[TBN Support]

:welcome:

I'm going to move your thread over to our John Deere section to see if we can find you some answers.

 

[JFoy]

Hey Brian,

I'm a Kubota guy but I'm over in Clemmons, south of Winston-Salem.

Welcome,
John

 

[SDiver40]

Hello and welcome from Concord

 

[fixitman123]

Welcome Brian from Garland in SE NC!

 

[beenthere]

Welcome, and some pics of what you are asking about will help with some suggestions. As will the service tech manual when you find one. Mine covers the 790 so may be able to answer some questions or post some schematics, etc.

 

[Walt 2002]

Welcome,

Walt Conner

 

[blasley]

Hey I found out what the issue is with the electrical. There was a 3A fuse that was being held into the fuse block with some wood slivers and small metal strips because the spring contacts in the fuse block were broken off. I pushed it back in and the warning lights and gauges work fine now. I'm afraid its temporary because it will most likely vibrate loose at some point without being able to replace the contact on the wire in the fuse block.

I took the sway adjustment off and got one end on both of them broken loose but now I'm trying to figure out how to break loose the other end without messing up the threads. I got one end loose on one side then in the process the other end broke loose but I got the initial end freed jammed and can't get it back out. Im still figuring that one out. If I can get the threaded rod out I think I can replace that part without ordering it from JD.

Thanks for any help you can offer.