5510 with dead odometer

masalser · Apr 20, 2012

I have a 5510 open cab tractor with about 1500 hours on it, and in the last fifty or so hours the LCD odometer died. The only other thing not working is the turn signals. I checked all of the fuses and found no blown fuses. Any ideas on where the problem might be? Is there perhaps a fusible link that I should be looking at, or am I probably looking at an instrument cluster replacement? Thanks for any help

kentuckydiesel · May 13, 2012

I would check the wires coming from the ignition switch first. In my experience, open cab tractors tend to have a fair bit of trouble with bad connections/corrosion there.

-Phillip

Mistyridgefarm · May 21, 2012

Not sure if it is the same on the 10 series but on 00 ones, the wiring harness split at the dash and went to the turn signals and the dash cluster. Check to see if the dash cluster connect came loose.

masalser · May 22, 2012

Mistyridgefarm, thanks for the suggestion. I'll take a look.

Kyle_in_Tex · May 22, 2012

Are you talking about the hour meter? Our 5420 open tractor's is dead too. Only has around 450 hours on it but it is 10 years old now. I haven't had any luck in another thread to find out the culprit.

Come to think about it, the cold start sensor at the thermostat had to be unplugged when it kept blowing the fuse when the key was turned on. I wonder if that could be a clue? This happened about the same time.