Farmtrac 555

[Rush55]

Is anyone familiar with this kind of tractor? When turning ignition key over it just clicks; if i put jumper cables on battery and ground other positive end to tractor it will crank.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[used red MN]

Welcome again, your explanation of what you’re doing to get it to crank is a bit confusing. The part where you “ground the other positive end” really makes no sense. Try to post some pictures of what you touch to what to make it crank. Pictures attach through the “Attach files” button.

 

[marloweg]

Is anyone familiar with this kind of tractor? When turning ignition key over it just clicks; if i put jumper cables on battery and ground other positive end to tractor it will crank.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

more then likely a safety switch had a Kubota that was doing the look up not starting fix kit for John Deere or Kubota [ts a relay kit the is a cheep fix

 

[Destroked 450]

Check the battery cable connections, worked on a tractor with similar condition
The cable ends had a black carbon type coating on them, had to scrape them with a knife as a wire brush wouldn’t clean them
I have a 555 but the wiring was damaged when I got the tractor, I modified a Ford harness to work using part of the 555’s harness

 

[Rush55]

Welcome again, your explanation of what you’re doing to get it to crank is a bit confusing. The part where you “ground the other positive end” really makes no sense. Try to post some pictures of what you touch to what to make it crank. Pictures attach through the “Attach files” button.

im sorry will do

 

[E.B. Haymakin']

Is anyone familiar with this kind of tractor? When turning ignition key over it just clicks; if i put jumper cables on battery and ground other positive end to tractor it will crank.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Agree with destroyed....clean cable ends, and if the cables have corrosion replace them. Most no start issues are cable related corrosion on either hot or ground, can't stress it enough. What you describe happens on my New Holland 3010s when it's not grounding

 

[used red MN]

Welcome again, your explanation of what you’re doing to get it to crank is a bit confusing. The part where you “ground the other positive end” really makes no sense. Try to post some pictures of what you touch to what to make it crank. Pictures attach through the “Attach files” button.

Are you simply using a jumper cables (jump start type) to clamp on the terminal at the battery and then connecting it to the opposite end to the opposite end of the same battery cable essentially doubling the cable? If that makes it work either the connections of the cable ends are not carrying the power or there is an internal connection problem with the cable conductor to either the terminal end that goes on the battery post or the eye lug that goes on the solenoid or the starter where ever. In other words the cable is bad.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

You are GROUNDING THE GROUND. That means the tractor has a bad ground from the battery. You can't depend on a visual inspection to detect it. Even if it "looks fine" take it apart, clean it. Maybe even replace it.

If you were grounding the "hot" you'd see a shower of sparks, the cable would get HOT very quickly and/or the battery would explode in your face. That's called a short circuit.

 

[Rush55]

Agree with destroyed....clean cable ends, and if the cables have corrosion replace them. Most no start issues are cable related corrosion on either hot or ground, can't stress it enough. What you describe happens on my New Holland 3010s when it's not grounding

Thank you so much. will replace cables and see what happens. I did put new ends on the but that didn't seem to help.

Thanks again

 

[marloweg]

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[Rush55]

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ebay search for what

 

[timcasbolt]

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[Rush55]

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I also burnt wires on the ignition. the hot(red), the heater wire(blue) and the ignition wire black with red in it I have identified. The wire that goes to the accessory wad burnt really bad but as I peeled back the harness there was a red/white wire attached to it but both are separate. I have to hot wire my fuel shut off solenoid to get fuel to the injectiors; so my question was the original accessory wire part of the red/ White wire. I'm sending pics

 

[Rush55]

this is the ignition wires

 

[Destroked 450]

What is this accessory wad you mentioned
What color is the wire at the fuel solenoid
When I got my 555 the engine had been removed and they had moved it with a fork lift, apparently with the forks under the fuel tank
The fuel tank had been punctured and the wiring harness was shredded to pieces so I didn’t spend much time trying to repair it
I pretty much Americanized mine when I installed the 3930 engine

 

[used red MN]

What is this accessory wad you mentioned

I suspect he meant to type “accessory was burnt” (d & s next to each other on keyboard)

 

[Rush55]

I suspect he meant to type “accessory was burnt” (d & s next to each other on keyboard)

I to apologize to all those folks who responded to my questions about my FT555. It's really hard on here for me to explain what's actually going on but I try and do the best I can.

Thanks so much

 

[used red MN]

I also burnt wires on the ignition. the hot(red), the heater wire(blue) and the ignition wire black with red in it I have identified. The wire that goes to the accessory wad burnt really bad but as I peeled back the harness there was a red/white wire attached to it but both are separate. I have to hot wire my fuel shut off solenoid to get fuel to the injectiors; so my question was the original accessory wire part of the red/ White wire. I'm sending pics

You said “I also burnt the wires…” does this mean it happened while you were doing some “testing” and there was a short or something that caused this to happen? Or did this happen during operation of the tractor and you just discovered this while try to fix an issue?

 

[Rush55]

You said “I also burnt the wires…” does this mean it happened while you were doing some “testing” and there was a short or something that caused this to happen? Or did this happen during operation of the tractor and you just discovered this while try to fix an issue?

from a short

 

[Destroked 450]

You can search Farmtrac 555 and a site called Farmtrac-tractor-parts.com comes up, on that site you can download a service manual for $125 which is a little high for me. You can also download a free parts manual
The main harness is # ESL15193
The instrument panel harness is # ESL14953
I’ve never been able to get parts from them but searching those numbers will bring up into agri solutions, I’ve purchased a number of parts from them