Need Help ASAP starting tractor

[GerardC]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( You should have gotten 2 keys when you got the tractor. Where's the other one. Go look in the paperwork you got on the tractor and see if it's there )</font>

I did get two keys with my tractor. I then got a third key. G

 

[Soundguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I just undid a few screws and dropped the panel that the lock was mounted in. One jumper to turn the fuel selonoid on and another to start it. )</font>

Good job. I was wondering when someone would post this type of answer. Point to point electronics on simple switches are so easy.. just make the contacts the key would make using jumper wires.

I keep an aligator clipped wire hanging on my ford 8n. If I'm out inthe barn away from my keys and need to do tractor work.. I usualy don't take the time to walk in and get keys.. I simply jumper around the key switch. Takes 30 seconds on that tractor.
It is at the point where i leave the wire clipped together hanging around the steering column...
A friend once asked what the wire was for.. I said 'spare key'... We both got a good laugh out of that one..

Soundguy

 

[755inNY]

My key stays in the iginition switch on the tractor. That way I always know where it is and it is always available when I want to use the tractor. My JD 755 sat outside for 16 years with the key in it.

If you think by removing the key you are keeping a thief from stealing your tractor you are wrong. As others have posted, the keys are interchangeable and simple. It is also very easy to bypass the ignition switch on most tractors.

Case in point. A contractor was doing work at my house last fall with a JD 110 TLB. At the end of the day he dutifully lowered the FEL and set the backhoe bucket on the ground such that if anyone tried to pull the tractor forward (the only direction the tractor could be moved) the bucket would dig into the ground. He confidently stated that that ought to keep any one from stealing his tractor. He looked surprised when I said "yeah, unless they have a John Deere key." He tried his key in my 4310 and it worked. I tried my 4310 key in his 110 TLB and it worked.

It it is a good idea to remove the key from a safety stand point if you have children around.

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Well, we got hit with anywhere from 8" to 24" of snow and Ice depending on where you live in the area. I got about 12" of snow crusted with ice. Unfortunately my son lost the key to my Kubota BX23 (Somewhere under the snow). The dealership is closed today. Nobody is getting around very well. Is there any way to start the BX23 without a key? It's cold so it will need the glow plugs to operate. I need to dig out my driveway.
Any help is appreciated. )</font>


Are you going to use the FEL to plow the snow?
Have you found the key?
I keep a key to everything on my key ring.
So does my wife.
We keep a third key to everything in a small shoe box in the house.
Ya Can't have to many keys

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Sounds like you'll have to get out the shovel. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif )</font>
I don't think he can start the tractor with /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif a shovel.

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( My key stays in the iginition switch on the tractor. That way I always know where it is and it is always available when I want to use the tractor. My JD 755 sat outside for 16 years with the key in it.

If you think by removing the key you are keeping a thief from stealing your tractor you are wrong. As others have posted, the keys are interchangeable and simple. It is also very easy to bypass the ignition switch on most tractors.

Case in point. A contractor was doing work at my house last fall with a JD 110 TLB. At the end of the day he dutifully lowered the FEL and set the backhoe bucket on the ground such that if anyone tried to pull the tractor forward (the only direction the tractor could be moved) the bucket would dig into the ground. He confidently stated that that ought to keep any one from stealing his tractor. He looked surprised when I said "yeah, unless they have a John Deere key." He tried his key in my 4310 and it worked. I tried my 4310 key in his 110 TLB and it worked.

It it is a good idea to remove the key from a safety stand point if you have children around.

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<font color="red"> The key is more of a convenience feature than an anti theft device. </font>