Farmall 350 Eletrical problem

dhermesc · Aug 23, 2012

Its only happened twice but a real pain when it happened.

I very seldom use the lights on my tractor but the last two times I did it caused a strange electrical problem. Both times I drove the tractor to another farm and had the lights on due to it being close to dusk. I shut the tractor off for a while then tried to restart it - nothing. It was as if the battery were completely dead. The guages didn't move, the lights didn't work the starter didn't even click. Being in the middle of a field I had no way to check anything electrical. After waiting an hour it started and ran just fine.

Any ideas other than avoid using the lights?

mkirsch · Aug 23, 2012

The problem has nothing to do with the lights and everything to do with your main battery cables. You probably have a poor ground connection.

old · Aug 23, 2012

I agree with mkirsch and most likely a poor connection some place. It could also be a heat related thing as for the connection since you could have something that gets warm and that in turn causes things to expand and that causes bad connection

Brownie 450 · Aug 23, 2012

Next time it happens, with tractor in neutral. try shorting across the large batt terminal & the smaller wire going to the "s" terminal on the solenoid. Nothing here?? short across the 2 large terminals on the solenoid to see if the starter turns. If nothing happens in both cases, look for ground or batt terminal problems [loose/ corroded].

Farmall 350 Eletrical problem

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