190 XT Light Switch
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Topic: 190 XT Light Switch
Posted By: Bill - Antique Acres
Subject: 190 XT Light Switch
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 5:06pm
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I have a new light switch I got from Burgie on here going on a year and a half ago and I am finally getting around to installing it. The lights have never worked on this tractor since I have owned it, but when diagnosing the switch I did trace out all the wiring under the cowl and it is all factory and nothing has been hacked up. The problem with the old switch was the battery post was rusted off. All others wires were still intact though. So today I moved one wire at a time and then hooked the battery wire up. This is were my questions come in. On the first click my dash lights and the outside of the two fender lights come on. The next click the outside two lights get brighter, and then on the third click the outside tow lights and the inside two lights come on. I have tried to swap the wires around on the post and looking at my diagram, but I can not get the inside two to come on before the third click. My question is this: On the first click should both the inner and outer come on together on dim, then the second click the turn to bright, then the third click the rear light and flasher come on? Do I have a bad switch, crossed wiring somewhere, or ? Also can someone enlighten me to the proper functions on each click of the switch? Thanks, Bill |
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Posted By: Fellenz
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 5:12pm
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On our 180 it's outer lights and hazards on one click, on the second click the outer lights get brighter and the hazards stay on, on the third click the hazards turn off and the inner lights come on with the outer lights and the rear light. I think you have it wired correctly. The first two positions are for road use with the hazards and the third position is for field use giving you all the lights on without the hazards. Erik |
Posted By: Bill - Antique Acres
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 6:49pm
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Thanks for the reply! I was looking in my 180 service manual and thought they would be the same and the are. It was wired correctly, just that my flasher was bad. Everything works as it should except for the rear light. However I can not check it, because when I turn it to the third click after about 10 seconds smoke starts rolling out from under the dash. I will have to pull it apart tomorrow and find out what would be down behind the switches causing this. Don't know if the wire is shorted or something else is wrong. Anyways, thanks again! Bill |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 10:04pm
| Would have thought a fuse should have blown long before you had smoke rolling out. |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2010 at 5:39am
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Maybe a loose connection. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: Bill - Antique Acres
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2010 at 4:27pm
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Update: I put on a new flasher, new flasher lights, and checked on all the wiring. Come to find out the smoke was coming off the wire from the ignition switch to the right fuse. I borrowed that wire when I put the new switch on because the wire broke off the old fuse holder on the left when I removed the old switch. I guess the amp draw was too high pulling off the ignition switch wire and was making it get hot. So I ran a new wire with a fuse off the back of the amp gauge just like the original, until I can pick up a new fuse holder for the dash. Hooked that wire up to the switch the way it is supposed to be and everything works the way it should, the lights are much brighter as well. My rear light was working the whole time I guess, but between being dim and not being able to run around there and look at it because of leaving the switch, I couldn't see it. Anyways, thanks again and now I can see forward and backwards. lol Bill |
Posted By: Burgie
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2010 at 4:33pm
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Glad everything worked out. ------------- "Burgie" |
Posted By: Bill - Antique Acres
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2010 at 4:42pm
Yeah me too. I didn't figure it was the switch, but anything can be bad now days out of the box. |
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