Cub Cadet 127 Not Starting

[koofer]

Hello all,

I finally got a cub cadet (yay)! However, I don't know why the starter won't turn. The battery is charged, the solenoid clicks when the key is turned, and when we (me and my dad) touched the 2 contacts on the top of the starter to the battery, it didnt spin (we also tried both wiring directions lol, one sparked and one didnt). When we connected the 2 wires on the top of the starter together, it sparked again. Is it the starter? Or the coil? Or some other part?

Thanks in advance.

[crazycubtrio]

I’m not sure what I’m seeing there but it looks like a dead short if the little wire is connected between the 2 posts. Not good. If you lift the leads off of both terminals and remove the belt from the starter you could run a jumper from the battery positive to the “A” terminal and the starter should spin. That is how I would test it and report back.

[West Valley G]

You still might just be fighting the a bad solenoid. Check your incoming
voltage to the solenoid. If you have twelve there then jump across
the two big posts on your solenoid to check if it is good.
Might be a bad connection on the key as well. I would get the
meter out before I started moving wires around guessing.
As George would say " You don't want to let the magic smoke out"
Could create a whole lotta troubles you don't have.
Did you locate the wiring diagram in the tech section. Good place to start.

Ken

[Billy-O]

Im not sure whether you brought your tractor home as "running" or "let's bring it home and find out". So here is my take:

The starter should spin if jumped from battery to the armature terminal only... no need to involve the other (Field) terminal unless you are trying to polarize the starter generator.

That being said and before I or we get crazy... if you jump the starter (battery to armature terminal), you should at least get a spark if you are touching the armature terminal with cable AND does the starter try making effort to spin? Is the motor free enough to spin as if it is not siezed? Maybe take the v belt off the pulley and see if starter spins?

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[koofer]

Thanks for the replies. The motor isn't siezed and we bought it as "we'll get it running". I'll have my dad bring home his voltmeter so we can do this after he's off of work.

[koofer]

I mean multimeter.

[koofer]

He doesn't have a multimeter, but we have some battery charger. Touched both of the starter tabs and nothing happened but sparks, however, when we manually spun the starter a couple times, it would turn. We are currently letting it charge for a minute first so we'll see. The guy at my dad's work who we bought it from said some stuff but this looks promising. I'll get back in a minute or 2.

[koofer]

Battery is the problem. The starter spun faster mow that we let it charge for a minute (duh, but yk). Going to get a new battery now, looks like it'll work babyyyy!

[koofer]

The starter spins! The battery is definitely better now (old one was kinda crappy). The ignition coil and the wire which connects it to the spark plug are corroded though, so it dont run yet. But now we now why! Thanks for the help, everyone!