Danger18
Bronze Member
While crossing a fairly steep ravine, to see if I'd be able to cross with the bush hog attached later, I bottomed out pretty badly on my 3 point lift arms that I had left down when I dropped off the bush hog. I heard a loud report, which I shrugged off when it climbed right out. I later found that I could not raise or lower the 3 point. Called a dealer service tech and he talked me thru a few checks. I backed off the raise/lower speed knob and heard the lever move. I then found that one of the stabilizer bars was bent around 20 degrees. I straightened it in a press and put it back on. Everything worked normal again. I picked up the bush hog, climbed the ravine with no problem and then bush hogged a quarter acre. Just as I finished up the pto shaft stopped on its own while the switch was still engaged. I don't have a service manual, and can't find one online. 2015 xr4046hc. I found the pto 15 amp fuse blown. Used a multimeter to check the switch, and then the pto solenoid after taking it off. I'm assuming the dead short reading is correct to show it's good. Also checked the pto relay. I let things cool down then went out to tinker with it. I put a new fuse in and engaged the pto switch and the shaft started to turn, maybe half a rotation, and then stopped. Weird thing was it didn't blow the fuse this time. So now I'm thinking the loud bang I heard was internal breakage from when I bottomed out. That, or the solenoid can't be good. Any ideas?
