ADin
Silver Member
I have a engine start issue on my JD2305 that I'm hoping for sounds familiar to someone here while I wait for the tech manuals to arrive.
Scenario:
- Everything worked perfectly until this past Saturday. About 10 minutes into mowing I killed the mower to help my 5 yr old with something and when I tried to restart I only heard clicking noise (possibly a crank or two but not enough to start). As of today I only get clicks.
- Jumping the battery to car (car engine off or idling) yields clicking noise with some slow cranks, but no starts.
- Jumping the battery with car revving fairly good cranks better and allows the tractor to start.
- Once running, no issues until I stop the mower.
- Battery has been confirmed good, cable connections off battery have been checked, cleaned, and/or jumpered around.
- I've checked all connections I could find, 'tapped' the starter, and did a curisoury inspection of the brushes.
Seems like it's down to starter or solenoid but not quite sure best way to diagnose at this point. Dealer indicated it would be ~2 weeks for JD to ship the CDRom (grrh - seems like a disk could be burned and shipped in a day or so if there's not a bunch already laying on shelf somewhere - I could probably get a new transmission is half that time)
Any case my grass is continuing to grow and I can only imagine the cost of even the simplest repair if I have to take it in.
Thank in advance for any thoughts or suggestions on tests to perform,
ADin
Scenario:
- Everything worked perfectly until this past Saturday. About 10 minutes into mowing I killed the mower to help my 5 yr old with something and when I tried to restart I only heard clicking noise (possibly a crank or two but not enough to start). As of today I only get clicks.
- Jumping the battery to car (car engine off or idling) yields clicking noise with some slow cranks, but no starts.
- Jumping the battery with car revving fairly good cranks better and allows the tractor to start.
- Once running, no issues until I stop the mower.
- Battery has been confirmed good, cable connections off battery have been checked, cleaned, and/or jumpered around.
- I've checked all connections I could find, 'tapped' the starter, and did a curisoury inspection of the brushes.
Seems like it's down to starter or solenoid but not quite sure best way to diagnose at this point. Dealer indicated it would be ~2 weeks for JD to ship the CDRom (grrh - seems like a disk could be burned and shipped in a day or so if there's not a bunch already laying on shelf somewhere - I could probably get a new transmission is half that time)
Any case my grass is continuing to grow and I can only imagine the cost of even the simplest repair if I have to take it in.
Thank in advance for any thoughts or suggestions on tests to perform,
ADin