Only 150 hours, but it does sit outside a lot. Original battery too, so maybe it is a voltage problem. When it decides not to start, glow plugs click on and all other electrical systems seem to work, keep turning the key to start and nothing.......no clicking no trying to start, just dead.
I cannot find the older posts centering around "low voltage to the solenoid" failures to start using the BX2200 and similar Kubota subcompacts. I know that in previous chases about the problem I found that the same disease exists with small John Deere machines and others. The basic problem is that so many safety interlocks exist and each contributes some amount of voltage drop before the battery voltage reaches the solenoid. To me all the manufacturers should EITHER provide relays to bypass all that crap as std equipment OR start using 10v triggered solenoids instead of 12v ones. That design change would save a lot of grief and expense to hundreds of thousands of people for sure. I do know that Deere sells a relay kit to cure this problem which people said would work ok on the Kubota's too.
No, of course not. I told you in post #3 what the problem is with near certainty.
I simply am not good at electrical diagnostics. Unless I had an how to video on which connections to poke around with and how to test them......I'm lost. Like you mentioned, I'd be the one burning a U shape on my fingers with the paper clip. Only reason I know how to jump the starter, is because I was shown how. "Put this alligator clip here, and the other end here" and whola. If I had a known problem part to replace, I can do that. But poking around with multimeters and test lights.......Don't know what I'm doing.
Let me clarify: These kits do not bypass the safety interlocks in any safety sense -- FOR EXAMPLE if the tractor won't start because your PTO is engaged before the kit, it still will not after the kit is installed. That is because the TRIGGER signal to the factory solenoid is still used to trigger the new "bypass relay." It just takes way less oomph (voltage) to trigger the new bypass relay in the kit than it takes to trigger the original solenoid which after all is just a relay itself. That said, many hobby-minded tinkerers do all sorts of things ! Such as one attractive innovator in another TBN thread a few years back just took into account that no one really uses the tractor key as a secretive private special key (they are all the same) and so he just installed a big old START button that triggers the solenoid bypassing everything including all the safety stuff. In his innovation you hold the key in the start position and then hit the START button if the thing did not start as it should anyway. Many variations.
