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Smoody
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I am almost positive I do not have a japenese battery and the light has never came on, still curious as to what would make it come on and back off now after 3 years of use.
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I'm afraid that's above my pay grade; however, the paper clip worked loose on mine once.
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careyo63
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Check your Fuse Panel Smoody. Same thing was happening to my YM 2000 first of last Yr. Had me going also. My alt. light would all the sudden start to flicker for no reason.I could turn my switch off and wait a few minutes and it may or may not start flickering again when I turned the switch back on. But still it was always chargeing, Drove me Nuts. It was not the Connection/Fuse screw but I found the Scew below it to be lose and dirty. Been over a Yr.no problems at all.My charge System and connections was the biggest PITA to get finally straightened out.
If that doesn't do it.
Are you sure It's not one of those Japanese Bonzi Batteries
Carey
If that doesn't do it.
Are you sure It's not one of those Japanese Bonzi Batteries
Carey
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First: Check to see if you have a Japanese battery. If there are 2 small wires going into one of the battery covers, then it is a Japanese battery and has the low water sensor connected up. The the light will blink or come on if your water is low in that cell.
If you do not have a Japanese battery, someone had probably tied those 2 wires together to make the light go out and they might have come loose.
clemsonfor
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Maybe the wires were already shorted togeather and they have either corroded enough to make a bad connection or they have vibrated loose? Find them and see.
clemsonfor
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Check your Fuse Panel Smoody. Same thing was happening to my YM 2000 first of last Yr. Had me going also. My alt. light would all the sudden start to flicker for no reason.I could turn my switch off and wait a few minutes and it may or may not start flickering again when I turned the switch back on. But still it was always chargeing, Drove me Nuts. It was not the Connection/Fuse screw but I found the Scew below it to be lose and dirty. Been over a Yr.no problems at all.My charge System and connections was the biggest PITA to get finally straightened out.
If that doesn't do it.
Are you sure It's not one of those Japanese Bonzi Batteries
Carey
Carey, mine does this but only at low RPMs, it will flicker or steady blink if im below about 1000 and sometimes this last weeked it did it even about 1200rpms. But it usually occurs around 800-900rpms, everyso often it dosent blink at all. I just live with it, i think i traced mine down to what seems like the carging post on the alt, to be too loose internally. I cleaned and tightened the connection and it helped a while but has returned. I am just living with it as it charges while working it so im confident the bat is getting charged even if the blinks at that moment are not allowing it to charge, its getting plenty of charge each use. It is annoying though.
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careyo63
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[QUOTE = It is annoying though.
:laughing: I know what you mean Clemson. All that I went through getting my wireing and chargeing straightend out and still had that going on was PMO. Pretty simple electrical sys. so I was bound and determind to keep from having to put up with that BS :ashamed:
Funny your problem sounds about the same as Mine and Smoodys. If I was a betting man back to a Loose or Bad connection since we can rule out the bonzi battery fixing to take a dive
Carey
:laughing: I know what you mean Clemson. All that I went through getting my wireing and chargeing straightend out and still had that going on was PMO. Pretty simple electrical sys. so I was bound and determind to keep from having to put up with that BS :ashamed:
Funny your problem sounds about the same as Mine and Smoodys. If I was a betting man back to a Loose or Bad connection since we can rule out the bonzi battery fixing to take a dive
Carey
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Could be the indicator light socket busbar has corroded. The busbar between sockets is hot, while each bulb separately goes to ground through the temp etc sensors.
I had to replace my dash lights assembly as part of my initial renovation. This whole mess on the right was just dangling (and flickering) when I bought the tractor.
That and the headlight sockets (since replaced) were the only rotten plastic I found - and nearly the only plastic on the entire tractor. I hate to think what a modern tractor with more plastic will look like after 30 years!
I had to replace my dash lights assembly as part of my initial renovation. This whole mess on the right was just dangling (and flickering) when I bought the tractor.
That and the headlight sockets (since replaced) were the only rotten plastic I found - and nearly the only plastic on the entire tractor. I hate to think what a modern tractor with more plastic will look like after 30 years!
clemsonfor
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That and the headlight sockets (since replaced) were the only rotten plastic I found - and nearly the only plastic on the entire tractor. I hate to think what a modern tractor with more plastic will look like after 30 years!
I will look like my uncles JD 4400. You cant read the top of the plastic gearshifts or the sticker hardly from the fading and cracks. That and you hood had a 2 foot crack in it from where it just decided to bust open one summer day letting a little cool trickle of water in for Auxillary cooling!
His tractor is 12 years old, maybe 11. Has 1300 hours on it Jumps out of 2 gears in C range plus the cosmetic issues i mentioned, oh and the foam that is under the canopy that helps to insulate has fallen out. Olnly leak is in the front steering knuckle for the FWD.