bigpete
Veteran Member
I just gotta' report that I'm enjoying the capabilites and comforts of the 4110, but I have to also report that somewhere upstream, between me and JD's QC department, there is lurking knuckle-head.
Last weekend, when transporting a few tons of rock around my property, my tractor started to try to "die" for no apparent reason. Instinctively, I backed off the hydro and pulled the tranny lever to neutral just before it died. After a couple of attempts to put the tractor back into gear with the engine wanting to die, I deduced it was my seat safty switch. At first, I thought "Hey, that diet is working out well--I don't even weigh enough to close the safety circuit in the seat dead-man switch..." but that self-deluded moment quickly passed. After reality set in, I gave the set-up a quick inspection and every thing looked fine. I then adjusted the seat back and forth, and manually activated the dead-man switch, and everything ran just fine.
Flash forward to Sunday afternoon... right in the middle of putting down 800 pounds of fertilizer/pre-emergent, it started to cut out again. Of course I assumed the worst and began to inspect for a faulty switch and decided I would need to try to bypass the switch to get my work done. I began to remove the switch assembly(springs, hair-pins, washers, etc.) which was pretty tough with cold, numb fingers. As I began to remove the assembly from under the seat support channel, the ^*!#%@+~ electrical snap connector simply slid appart /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
So, snap, click, and I re-assemble the switch, compressing springs while holding washers with purple thumbs while trying to insert the teenie-tiny hair pins back in the spring retainer pins--a much harder task than taking those things apart. Ninety minutes later, I'm spreading fertilizer again, cussing the QC department at JD, my dealer, and worst of all, cussing myself for not checking the simplest thing first /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Lesson re-learned--as if I haven't learned it a few dozen times. Always assume first there is a knuckle-head somewhere in the assembly line before assuming failure or cursing a design; and always check the simplest possible problem first. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
Last weekend, when transporting a few tons of rock around my property, my tractor started to try to "die" for no apparent reason. Instinctively, I backed off the hydro and pulled the tranny lever to neutral just before it died. After a couple of attempts to put the tractor back into gear with the engine wanting to die, I deduced it was my seat safty switch. At first, I thought "Hey, that diet is working out well--I don't even weigh enough to close the safety circuit in the seat dead-man switch..." but that self-deluded moment quickly passed. After reality set in, I gave the set-up a quick inspection and every thing looked fine. I then adjusted the seat back and forth, and manually activated the dead-man switch, and everything ran just fine.
Flash forward to Sunday afternoon... right in the middle of putting down 800 pounds of fertilizer/pre-emergent, it started to cut out again. Of course I assumed the worst and began to inspect for a faulty switch and decided I would need to try to bypass the switch to get my work done. I began to remove the switch assembly(springs, hair-pins, washers, etc.) which was pretty tough with cold, numb fingers. As I began to remove the assembly from under the seat support channel, the ^*!#%@+~ electrical snap connector simply slid appart /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
So, snap, click, and I re-assemble the switch, compressing springs while holding washers with purple thumbs while trying to insert the teenie-tiny hair pins back in the spring retainer pins--a much harder task than taking those things apart. Ninety minutes later, I'm spreading fertilizer again, cussing the QC department at JD, my dealer, and worst of all, cussing myself for not checking the simplest thing first /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Lesson re-learned--as if I haven't learned it a few dozen times. Always assume first there is a knuckle-head somewhere in the assembly line before assuming failure or cursing a design; and always check the simplest possible problem first. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif