MF 375 not starting

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Little squeak

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Lancashire

• Aug 14, 2022

• #1

As the title indicates, turn the key and nothing happens, “wiggling” the small gear stick which has to be in the centre gets it to start some of the time,

other times you have to use a short piece of wire on the starter motor but under current circumstances I do not wish to cause the slightest spark and really would like it fixed. The principal of this safety feature doesn’t seem to have changed since my old MF135. No rubber mats there but no visible wiring either. Someone must have had the same problem in the past, where is the electric switch? Or how does it work?

 

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agrimax

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Co Down

• Aug 14, 2022

• #2

The safety switch is pretty much in the same place as the 135,on forward of the gear levers and just on the gearbox side of where the box joins to the engine.(More so to the rhs of the box.) Can't answer how to get to it on a 300 series though...

 

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Little squeak

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Lancashire

• Aug 14, 2022

• #3

thanks for that agrimax I think I have found it on the 135 is just at the extreme right of this photo. I will have to remove all the mats tomorrow on the 375 but I expect it will be in more or less the same place

 

Dry Rot

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Scottish Highlands

• Aug 14, 2022

• #4

I wonder if it's a similar problem I had with the 390? Safety switch that stopped it from starting unless it was in neutral. Due to wear, that position had wandered! I removed the switch, measured the depth of the hole it came out of, then got an engineer to turn down it down. Don't ask me about the details as I've forgotten what I did, but shouldn't be too hard to work it out! There are files on the Facebook page for 200, 300, etc. series and an awful lot of clever an helpful people from all around the globe.

 

wdah/him

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tyrone

• Aug 14, 2022

• #5

Little squeak said:

As the title indicates, turn the key and nothing happens, “wiggling” the small gear stick which has to be in the centre gets it to start some of the time,View attachment 1056522 other times you have to use a short piece of wire on the starter motor but under current circumstances I do not wish to cause the slightest spark and really would like it fixed. The principal of this safety feature doesn’t seem to have changed since my old MF135. No rubber mats there but no visible wiring either. Someone must have had the same problem in the past, where is the electric switch? Or how does it work?

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Have changed a few. Think it is a plate behind the gearstick and reach forward not tight. However I ha e done one by reaching in from the front of the cab under the bonnet bit that could have been 200 series. Been a while from I did them though.

 

Neil MP

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Location

Argyll

• Aug 14, 2022

• #6

Before pulling anything to bits, check the pto lever hasn’t been engaged accidentally or engine stopped with pto running, as there is a safety switch on pto lever too

 

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Little squeak

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Location

Lancashire

• Aug 16, 2022

• #7

Finally got this job finished today the switch is in roughly the same place as the 135. However because the 375 has a cab on top of what just looks like an old 185 body the space between the the top of the gearbox and the bottom of the cab is tiny. Fortunetley it was only a corroded spade terminal not the switch as to unscrew that would have mean't lifting the cab a bit, this was bad enough for a non mechanic.