By-Passing Seat Safety Switch On MT342

[Avenger]

My tractor had (has) a seat safety switch. I bypassed it due to the reasons the OP stated. Sometimes, you need to lift your butt up to get a better view over the hood.
I didn't bother with switches or anything unnecessary.

But here is what I did: I had a bunch of left over H11 plugs after doing my lights. I unplugged the seat switch, cut the factory plastic connectors off, and added the H11 plugs. Probably not necessary, but I didn't want to find the proper plug that matches for the next part. I made a simple jumper loop out of another H11 plug. Unplug the tractor side of the seat switch and plug in the jumper loop. Look completely factory, and if for some reason it ever needs to work as a safety switch again, simply unplug the loop and plug in the seat. Very simple.

I show this enhancement at about the 13:40 mark of this video:

 

[toxicjeeper]

My 2022 kioti had a seat a seat switch..first thing I did was in unplug it and jumped the tractor side of the switch with a paperclip..way too annoying having the motor shut off everytime I wanna jump off and throw something in the bucket.

 

[Eagle1]

On my XG the motor only cuts if you try to move the machine without your butt in the seat. If you are stopped and get off it beep for 10 seconds when you get off without setting the brake. My plus for having is that it beeps if you try to drive with parking brake set, I have run my Kubota way to often and far with the brake set, until I notice a lack of grunt. I will have a switch to over ride the seat switch for when I want inch the tractor around from the ground when hooking up BH or other implement. Hate to climb up and down to move 2 inches.
Mine also starts in gear (HST) and nothing in the seat a long as no HST petal is pressed.

 

[Texasmark]

I would like to by-pass the seat safety switch on my MT342 because when I lift my butt off the seat to see where the forks are, the engine will die. My question is if I take a wire and jump between the switch plug will that work? Will that do anything to the computer?

Some designers fix their seat switches so that you can't easily disconnect them. Having had that experience, when I disconnected mine, I removed the switch from the seat and taped a coin over the button. The original tape type didn't last so I upgraded the tape and haven't had any problems since.