I have 1983 john deere 420 garden tractor that starts and idles fine but when you try to move the hydrostatic lever or engage the front or rear PTO it stalls out. I've already tried cutting seat switch wires and wiring them together to bypass, also tried a new micro switch at lever, but didn't test battery but it seams to be ok.
There are 2 safety switches on that unit as well. Most of them are right below the steering column in the firewall area. Search that to see if that unit has them. I'd be willing to bet one of them is faulty. Most are just a push button type.
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The PTO usually has a clutch that has to be engaged so that you can select the PTO rotation setting. I had a problem like that on my tractor and all it needed was a little adjustment on the PTO clutch lever, so it could disengage the PTO gearbox properly.
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CK THE SEAT SWICH OR THE BRAKE SWICH ONE OFEM IS BAD
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its likely to be a switch playing you up try hard wireing the switch to see if it stops this cutting out first, do one switch at a time till you fine the one playing up
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Park brake switch is the most likely culprit,any other would cause the tractor to not turn over in the crank position.
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after digging deeper, I found out my 2 amp fuse that looked ok was bad. problem solved!
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