RK55HC Reverse Alarm location

SpecificallyRandom · Mar 17, 2025

Hello all. I recently bought an RK55 and it’s finally dried out enough here in NW PA to use it without tearing the daylights out of the ground. My first issue is this deafening, ear piercing reverse alarm. Doing loader work with this alarm is insane. I am sure it’s not as simple as a dedicated fuse you can just pull and replace as needed. It sounds like it’s in the rear left of the tractor. The backhoe being installed doesn’t make it any easier to look for. What have you all done? Just go deaf? Thanks in advance!

ptsg · Mar 17, 2025

Follow the noise and unplug whatever it's beeping.

SpecificallyRandom · Mar 17, 2025

Since it’s only on when the reverse pedal is pushed and I’m doing it alone, it makes it rather difficult. That’s why I was hoping someone might know where it is/best approach angle to gain access to it. Also if it has a pigtail/plug or if I have to actually cut the wires.

I mean, I could put the parking brake on, wedge a stick between the seat and the reverse pedal and hope the brake holds while I climb around and look for it. But then I’d end up as one of those “cautionary tails” about how tractors kill. Then the guy from Good Works Tractors would make a video about me. How embarrassing.

ptsg · Mar 17, 2025

The range gear lever has a Neutral position. That may be an option too. Usually those beepers are located in the rear of the tractor, so I would start there.

Something similar to this:

SpecificallyRandom · Mar 17, 2025

ptsg said:
The range gear leverThat may be an option too. Usually those beepers are located in the rear of the tractor, so I would start there.

Something similar to this:

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ptsg said:
The range gear lever has a Neutral position. That may be an option too. Usually those beepers are located in the rear of the tractor, so I would start there.

Something similar to this:

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Thanks I’ll look there. Also, when the range lever is in neutral the alarm doesn’t sound - that would be too easy.

Rustyiron · Mar 17, 2025

....or look for the switch.
The pedal area/linkage etc. is a good place to start.
Hopefully both ends of the wire between the switch and the alarm have a plug type disconnect.
Key on without the tractor running and something heavy to press the pedal in reverse will allow you to go deaf without subjecting a family member.

SpecificallyRandom · Mar 18, 2025

The speaker is located on the inside of the rear left fender (as you sit in it). It’s mounted to the underside of the cab and looks very similar to the photo above. It’s behind a black rubber flap that hangs down about 8 inches. It’s about 2”x2”. If you trace the wires from the speaker they will run to a group of 4-6 other wires that all come together where they plug into the wires that run to the rest of the tractor. I was able to just unplug one wire from the speaker to disable it. The best part is if (for some ungodly reason) I ever need to have that speaker active again I can just plug it back in. It would also be 1000% easier to locate if you do not have the backhoe installed.

D&D · Mar 18, 2025

SpecificallyRandom said:
The speaker is located on the inside of the rear left fender (as you sit in it). It’s mounted to the underside of the cab and looks very similar to the photo above. It’s behind a black rubber flap that hangs down about 8 inches. It’s about 2”x2”. If you trace the wires from the speaker they will run to a group of 4-6 other wires that all come together where they plug into the wires that run to the rest of the tractor. I was able to just unplug one wire from the speaker to disable it. The best part is if (for some ungodly reason) I ever need to have that speaker active again I can just plug it back in. It would also be 1000% easier to locate if you do not have the backhoe installed.

You unplugged the speaker? How are you going to know when you go backwards?

Tinhack · Mar 18, 2025

Rustyiron said:
Key on without the tractor running and something heavy to press the pedal in reverse will allow you to go deaf without subjecting a family member.

Yeah, this right here. I couldn't understand why you would even think of crawling around under a running tractor while it's in gear (or pedal pressed). Even with a parking brake. I couldn't believe it when I read your post.

SpecificallyRandom · Mar 19, 2025

D&D said:
You unplugged the speaker? How are you going to know when you go backwards?

The big flashing “R” that they have kindly programmed into the middle of the digital dash..

. It goes great with the giant flashing “F” when I move forward. The fact they needed to even do that much makes me worry about the future of the human race.

SpecificallyRandom · Mar 19, 2025

Tinhack said:
Yeah, this right here. I couldn't understand why you would even think of crawling around under a running tractor while it's in gear (or pedal pressed). Even with a parking brake. I couldn't believe it when I read your post.

I did not think about it! However my wife, with the knowledge of my fully paid and up to date life insurance policy, did mention the break/stick/pedal idea. Which, again, I passed on because I don’t want to be a statistic and be featured in one of those tractor safety videos.

Rustyiron · Mar 19, 2025

Hey welcome to tbn!
Glad you can now back up peacefully.

D&D · Mar 19, 2025

SpecificallyRandom said:
However my wife, with the knowledge of my fully paid and up to date life insurance policy, did mention the break/stick/pedal idea.

Very thoughtful on her part.

tacticalturnip · Mar 19, 2025

This was a fun thread, lol, a back-up alarm in a small tractor really seems obnoxious.

Snezzy · Mar 24, 2025

Backup alarms are easily a hazard. Some people upon hearing a loud and obnoxious noise cover their ears and close their eyes. Also, it's hard to know the direction that a single-tone alarm sound is coming from. Where is that sound? "I don't know. It's inside my head. Shut it off!"

Bentrim · Mar 24, 2025

I have been around a "few" years. As a child there were no seat belts, side marker lights, back up cameras, lane monitors, 5 mph bumpers, drank out a garden hose and the spring, etc. I always thought those big chrome bumpers were good looking.
As I got older dad sat me on an 8N Ford and told me just hold the steering wheel straight, so they could load bales on the wagon. I couldn't even reach the pedals! A few years more and I was on a tricycle tractor (oh no a tricycle they are dangerous) plowing, disking, cultivating corn, mowing the pasture and wheat stubble, pulling loads of hay, straw and corn the the building to be unloaded, plowing snow in the winter, and anything that needed done.
All this was long before the guards and shields HAD to be installed for safety. You know those shields that take longer to remove and replace than it does to make the repair or adjustment, or removed and junked or thrown in a corner of the shed.
Now we had some ear shattering horn on a tractor, tractor or industrial equipment, so we can back up, safety switches that make more issues than the machine cause more agrivation than a flat tire.
Those safety engineers need to keep up their work of tormenting people, after all them need to earn their (overpaid) salary.
All these niceties may be nice but I sure appreciate older machine that YOU drove, NOT a computer, and one you could actually work on.
Oh yes I still have all my toes, and fingers, age has taken more than any machine.
Be careful out there, Use common sense. I know it isn't comon anymore!

D&D · Mar 24, 2025

SpecificallyRandom said:
The big flashing “R” that they have kindly programmed into the middle of the digital dash... It goes great with the giant flashing “F” when I move forward. The fact they needed to even do that much makes me worry about the future of the human race.

I checked all of our tractors and equipment. None of them have an F or R dash indicator. Guess I'll never know for sure which way I'm going