My c-141 decided to take up smoking today

[Wheelhorsedairyfarmer 13]

So I got the c-141 back up and running today after an axle hub issue. While I had the tire off to fix the hub, I cleaned the chaff off the top of the tranny. Felt the wires laying there where someone had bypassed the seat switch. Thought I left everything as it was. But apparently I messed something up. Today, mowed 20 feet and had the wires that went through the seat switch smoking like a chimney. So I fired up the 310-8, grabbed the tow bar and 2 hitch pins, and dragged it back to the garage. I think there were a bunch of bare spots in the seat switch wires before hand. Just want to make sure on this, but if I take out all the messed up wires, and replace them with one wire, a short one, bypassing the seat switch, it should be fine, right? I have zero experience doing anything electrical. But today gave a new definition to the term "hot seat". 

[SousaKerry 502]

Yup follow the wires back to the source and just cut them off and wire nut/solder them together and wrap them in electrical tape so that they will not come apart and short out again.

 

Of coarse this is only a test procedure and should never be done as a permanent solution to solve any kind of electrical problem.  Never bypass safeties of any kind or the lawyers will descend on you like locusts and eat your children. 

[MarkPalmer 81]

Yup follow the wires back to the source and just cut them off and wire nut/solder them together and wrap them in electrical tape so that they will not come apart and short out again.

 

Of coarse this is only a test procedure and should never be done as a permanent solution to solve any kind of electrical problem.  Never bypass safeties of any kind or the lawyers will descend on you like locusts and eat your children. 

 

I just sent a chain letter to every product liability lawyer in the country asking them how it is possible that I am still alive today after bypassing EVERY stupid electrical safety switch I have come across on every tractor I have owned?? 

 

-Mark-

[Wheelhorsedairyfarmer 13]

Funny about the safeties, my charger 12 has none. None on it to bypass. My 310-8 has them bypassed, reason being. I mow hills. I have duals on it so I don't roll off the hill. Even with the duals, there's still a fair amount of....what I'll call "Cheeking" to be done. Requires re-positioning yourself on the seat. If that sucker had a seat switch on it, could be a disaster. As for the c-141......upon dissection of the melted wires.....I found that they cooked up to about 4 inches away from the key switch. After some swearing and chucking pliers around the garage, I got the planks out, backed my truck up to a bank, and pushed it onto my truck, and took it to my WH dealer. Just don't have the time to devote to it at the moment. 

[Wheelhorsedairyfarmer 13]

Well my dealer got the c-141 re-wired. Picked it up today and brought it home. He bypassed the safety switches, and put in a fuse. So in theory the fuse should blow and protect the wiring from cooking again!