Bradley Burke
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I just bought a used case 590sl backhoe. It's a 1999 and is badly rusted. The hood is barely hanging on and the engine side panels are gone. It was used to load salt trucks which explains it. Finding used hood and side panels is one project I need help with if anyone has a source. But the issue at hand is that it suddenly isn't starting. I went to see the machine for the first time just a few days ago and it started up fine, ran nice and the mechanicals all seemed to be in order. Shut it off and started it up again no problem. I got it delivered the next day. The driver said "by the way they had trouble starting it when I loaded it on the trailer. The 4WD switch was on. It won't start with the 4WD switch is on. make sure you have it off to start". It was started and shut off a several times that day as I was trying it out. As it got late in the day I switched some lights on. When I shut the machine down for the day and hit the 4wd switch off and on along with all the light switches to make sure everything was off. Next day the machine won't start. The batteries are good but I jumpered it just to make sure. Nothing. The 4Wd switch shouldn't have anything to do with it starting as long as it is in neutral, which it is. Switch on or switch off ti still won't turn over. The guy that sold it swears that when it wouldn't start all he had to do was flick the $wd switch off. Anybody have any ideas?