warning light
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Topic: warning light
Posted By: soggybottomboy
Subject: warning light
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 8:10am
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Have an allis 170,and a 175. The brakes on both tractors are worn out because we forget to release them before we start driving. I was wondering if anyone has figured out a way to mount a BRAKES ON warning light on the dash. |
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Posted By: BillinAlberta
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 8:25am
I'll bet it is a constant sorrow for you  I've often wondered the same thing with my 2 D17's. I am following this with interest. Hope it's not 30 below where you are this morning.
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Posted By: CAL(KS)
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 8:35am
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could make one pretty easy with a small switch and bulb. just like how the light comes on in your car when the e brake is on. circuit is open when brake pedal is up, but when pushed it lets the switch ground and complete the circuit, turning on the light. ------------- Me -C,U,UC,WC,WD45,190XT,TL-12,145T,HD6G,HD16,HD20 Dad- WD, D17D, D19D, RT100A, 7020, 7080,7580, 2-8550's, 2-S77, HD15 |
Posted By: Stan R
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 8:35am
| Contact switch, light bulb indicator, wire, fuse and a custom mounting bracket would work, wouldn't it? |
Posted By: Bear Taylor
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 8:37am
| I have taken off with the brakes set on my 170 too. I finally decided not to set the brakes unless absolutely necessary. However, a warning light or a beeper would be nice. |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 9:14am
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Years ago had a customer with a new 574 IHC that had trouble with his 80+ old Dad was forgetting to release the parking brake and it even had a factory light in the dash too, so I installed a car horn under the seat ( it was load sitting in that seat) still didn't stop the older guy from driving with the brakes on. ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 9:26am
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Do they lock like a D17 or a 190? If like a 190 then mount a simple switch like what is used on the clutch safety switch on the 190 or the brakes on a Gleaner L2 up by the locking lever and hooked to a light or a beeper or both. I guess the same could be done on the D17 type too but a little tougher to mount it. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: CAL(KS)
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 9:32am
LOL.
------------- Me -C,U,UC,WC,WD45,190XT,TL-12,145T,HD6G,HD16,HD20 Dad- WD, D17D, D19D, RT100A, 7020, 7080,7580, 2-8550's, 2-S77, HD15 |
Don(MO) wrote:Posted By: Bear Taylor
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 10:39am
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I can just picture in my mind how my wife would react if I drove around the yard on my tractor with a blaring car horn. I would be trying to buy my tractor back at the auction!!! |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 11:12am
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Sounds like 'grandpa' needs a cut-off switch so you can't even start the tractor till the brakes are free...or somethiing of that sort ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: Ky.Allis
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 12:41pm
| "GRANDPA" needed new batteries in his hearing aids. |
Posted By: soggybottomboy
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 12:46pm
| Thanks guys,and no,it's about 13 above here this morning. I wasn't going to take the axle off again without changing something,or i'll just get the same results. These tractors are not leaving this farm until sometime after i do. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 1:23pm
| My policy, which I learned the hard way, is if I set the brakes, I set em good and tight, so whoever, even if it's me, takes off on it, they're going to know the brakes are set. Darrel |
Posted By: SteveMaskey(MO)
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 1:56pm
| I’ll second what Darrel said, and I learnt the hard way also |
Posted By: DSeries4
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 4:56pm
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I never set them. I leave the transmission in gear and hand clutch in either high or low range (not neutral). ------------- '49 G, '54 WD45, '55 CA, '56 WD45D, '57 WD45, '58 D14, '59 D14, '60 D14, '63 D15D, '66 D15II, '66 D21II, '67 D17IV, '67 D17IVD, '67 190XTD, '73 620, '76 185, '77 175, '84 8030, '85 6080 |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 8:19pm
| If I set the brakes on the WD or 45,you won't go anywhere without unlocking them. My wife gets mad cause she can't release them. |
Posted By: Krazy Karl
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 9:23pm
| Yea it would be possible. Put one on a forklift at work just have to figure out a type of switch to use on the forklift ended up using a round baler door close switch i believe |
Posted By: MACK
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 9:25pm
| Don't do like Agco Massey did on park brake. If brake is set, alarm sounds until clutch is out then alarm quits. Good engineering lol. MACK |
Posted By: David Maddux
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2018 at 9:28pm
| Hot wire the seat! |