3rdgendslmech
Well-Known Member
I rode out to work on a friends bobcat that wouldn't start after he had shut it down to talk to an inspector. From what he tells me everything was working fine and was running fine then when he got back in it the nothing would turn on when he turned the switch to the "on" position.
It only took me a couple minutes to figure out the main fuse to the panel had blown but at this point I'm stumped on why it blew. I connected the 2 wires together to get in on a trailer and back to his yard and started to diagnose what happened. I put in a smaller CAT 80 amp resettable breaker started the machine a dozen times nothing. Then I turned all the lights on, turned the A/C on and turned the fan to high and still couldn't get the breaker to trip. It threw a code M3128 which is an interrupted power failure.
Alternator is charging at 14.1 volts. The hot wire after the fuse going to the fuse panel looked and I OHM checked it and got no resistance to ground. The main ground clamp looks a little suspect, where the bolt goes through the ground clamp on the battery is cracked and noticed it wasnt very snug on the negative post. I've never seen a machine blow a main fuse due to loss of ground but I ain't seen it all yet either. Only other thing I was thinking of doing was taking the starter off and sending it out to be rebuilt or just buy a new one.
It only took me a couple minutes to figure out the main fuse to the panel had blown but at this point I'm stumped on why it blew. I connected the 2 wires together to get in on a trailer and back to his yard and started to diagnose what happened. I put in a smaller CAT 80 amp resettable breaker started the machine a dozen times nothing. Then I turned all the lights on, turned the A/C on and turned the fan to high and still couldn't get the breaker to trip. It threw a code M3128 which is an interrupted power failure.
Alternator is charging at 14.1 volts. The hot wire after the fuse going to the fuse panel looked and I OHM checked it and got no resistance to ground. The main ground clamp looks a little suspect, where the bolt goes through the ground clamp on the battery is cracked and noticed it wasnt very snug on the negative post. I've never seen a machine blow a main fuse due to loss of ground but I ain't seen it all yet either. Only other thing I was thinking of doing was taking the starter off and sending it out to be rebuilt or just buy a new one.