I need a push button Normally open switch

[wore out]

More details on the "Starting Improvement Kit'' follow. Although model ''318'' is mentioned it also applies to your GT275.

https://forums.yesterdaystractors.com/viewtopic.php?t=1605571

 

[gab]

My two Onan powered Wheel Horses each have an auxiliary solenoid. I had to take one of them apart a few years ago to clean it.

 

[560Dennis]

Check Grainger , or Newark

 

[docmirror]

That Cambridge switch will do. They also have a model with a rubber boot so water can't get into the workings.

Now, the connection path for me. I prefer to run a hot lead directly from the battery + to the plus coil leg of the solenoid. Then, wire the other leg of the solenoid to the switch, and from the switch to a good ground. This will work with any 4 pole solenoid which is what's used on most garden tractors. If it has only three poles, then the bracket of the solenoid is grounded and will use the switch to interrupt the + from the batt.

I find it a bit safer to have the high current + wire going directly to the solenoid. You can use a 15A inline fuse if you want, but I prefer to switch the ground leg rather than the plus leg. Either will work with a 4 pole solenoid.

 

[504]

I would expect any decent size auto parts stores would have one in stock.

 

[Hobo,NC]

I know it sounds inviting to add a push button switch. They are problematical in their own right. Dirt kills them they stick and destroy the starter, you think I will know when it sticks. Does anyone else that may use it understand that strange noise when the starter stays engaged.

Either diagnosis the issue are add a relay and use the original switch.

Life will be good.

 

[Texasmark]

I got a plastic one off ebay for my little converted riding mower with a spray rig. I use it to run a 2 gpm, 60 psi, 12v dc pump. I bought several many years ago thinking that they would be short lived.....first one is still working.....I keep my equipment out of the weather and surely that helps and don't do a lot of washing, especially power sprayer type which probably helps too.

The pre-heat button failed on my '65 Ford 3000 and I got a real nice SS, flush mount switch off ebay also.