BX2200- Headlights out

[Jim V]

Neither my headlight or flashers are working. Am I missing an in-line fuse somewhere?

I think this is related to a recent problem whereby the clips holding the pins into the upper 3 point left arms caught the wires from my 2 rear aux, worklights. In this case the short was blowing the 20 AMP aux fuse.- working on the wiring fix right now.

Any suggestions appreciated.

 

[frank_f15]

did u check to see that it did not pull or tear other wires going to lights? check manuel or wiring dia. for inline fuses.

 

[lpigott]

I have a new BX2200 with 50 hrs on it. My flashers and lights quit working also. The turn signals still worked. I washed the tractor and pulled it in the shop the troubleshoot and after flipping the turn signals on a few times the flashed started working? Then after working the flashers a few times the headlights started working again? No problem to trouble shoot now. Wrong later in the day after using the tractor for some disk harrowing the flashers and headlights are not working again. (Maybe they only work if the tractor is clean) I will get to the bottom of this and post my findings.

 

[lpigott]

I found the problem on mine! Maybe yours is the same. The switches on both the headlights and the flashers were the problem. I took the switches apart after verifing they were the problem. Both had dust on the contact points that had turned to a spot of carbon not allowing the contact to make. All I had to do was to clean them and reinstall. I remember a few years ago I had the same problem on my Kubota T1760 riding mower. I finally replaced the cheap factory switch with one of much better quality ( It only cost a few bucks) and it has never failed. I wonder why such well ingineered and expensive machines come with such cheap light switches and poor quality lighting? I'm sure I will replace all the factory switches on my BX soon cuz if I pay 10 grand for something the [censored] lights will work when I flip the switch!!! FYI I replaced the stock headlight bulbs(25 watts) with some high intensity ones from an auto parts store and the headlights are actually usful now. I added a rear tractor utility light I bought at Wal-mart and it is like 5 times brighter than the front headlights. I plan on adding some of these facing forward in the future.