Got a L120 and had problems with interlock switch for years. Just brought a New switch, then seen this video .put the purple wires together and worked! Thanks so much! Heck with that switch lol

Thank you, it worked, my ztrak z255 John Deer zero turn mower stopped working, wouldn't crank, no sound, nothing. I followed your instructions and disabled the brake safety stitch and it started right up. Didn't cost me anythiing. Thanks again. You saved me some money.

I've been mowing lawns without safety switches since I was 12 lol

Best Explanation of seat switch I have seen. I think there is a mechanical switch between two of the connectors in the plug that either have to be separated or like you did - cut it off!!

Super simple. Unplug the PTO and the brake plugs. Remove the purple wire from the PTO plug end and connect it to the solenoid. Done!

Thank you so much for the video Fixed my mower!!😎😎

Without all of the safety switches, it is such a pleasure to drive the JD tractors.(E120 mine) You just need to use common sense to protect yourself. If you're getting off of the mower for any reason, shut off the blades first. Also, many of the problems with these mowers, are caused because one of the safety switches is bad.

I can't count the number of times I've leaned dangerously off the seat to try to move a branch on the ground while trying to keep my butt on the sensor, when it would be much safer to just jump off an pull the branch AWAY from the mower. The seat switch is a good idea on paper, but it honestly causes me to do even MORE dangerous stuff trying to work around it.

@MicroSoftner

5 жыл бұрын

Unsafe tee switch 😁 lol

@gacha21x35

2 жыл бұрын

It depends on different situations, if one where to try and move something, it’s not such a good idea, but it somehow a faulty starter where to activate the lawnmower, it wouldn’t turn off and would cause the lawnmower to continue to run until it runs out of gas or a different situation. If stored indoors, it could cause a fire due to it being on and overheating. It all depends on certain situations, but it’s best to have them on.

@truthsmiles

2 жыл бұрын

@@gacha21x35 Your scenario needs a lot of unlikely things to go wrong at once. Yes we can all imagine very specific situations where it would be good to have X, but the idea of the switch isn’t to prevent your scenario, but to reduce harm at a statistical level. My question would be: How many people are injured by lawnmowers without a seat switch, and how bad are the injuries, and how many are injured by lawnmowers WITH a seat switch? In other words, is it better to prevent one major injury if it means causing 10,000 minor injuries? I’m skeptical about whether the seat switch actually helps keep people safer in a general, global sense.

Thank you! Trying to troubleshoot is impossible with all these safety switches. Mine has the seat, the break, the backup and has to be in neutral. The wiring is so old any vibration sets off one of the 4 switches and kills the engine.

Great video! What do I have to do to be able to start my LA100 JD mower with the blades engaged (with the blade engagement lever pushed all the way up)? Thank you for any help.

I did the purple wire trick on a 2020 E130... works great. Just wonder what the 2 white wires do??

Hey Tim, I was able to find the brake switch which wasn't working properly. What it did was after the mower started, when I let off the brake, the mower would go dead. So, I followed your instructions and connected the two purple wires. However, now the mower acts like I disconnected the battery. Any suggestions? Thanks,

I just put a Kohler 17.5 engine out of an L110 on my Ferris walk behind mower. I transfered the entire wiring harness ( I want to use the factory key, hr meter and headlight circuit). I'm now systematically eliminating all these now useless sensors.

What about the deck engage safety? This switch sometimes causes my mower not to start. I just have to push down and jiggle it around a little to get it going most of the time but it has given me more trouble before.

I bypassed the parking brake safety switch as shown in this video (shorted out the two purple wires). But the seat safety switch now doesn't work, (won't shut off when you get off the seat). How can the parking brake safety switch be disabled without disabling the seat safety switch? Thx

Do you have a video on how to remove the oil filter for this mower? Or the location of the filter?

Couldn't have said it better myself. All these so called "safety switches" should be called, I want a bunch of grief because I'm to stupid to cut the grass without cutting off all my limbs switches. 50 years cutting the grass so far so good no safety switches.

How 2 pass all the switches on a John Deere L 110 please?

I by-passed all of my safety switches - still no electrical power. I last used the mower during the fall of 2020, the year we had the big ice storm that lasted for so long. Could it be that an ice bridge formed somewhere between hot and ground and burned out a wire? I am not exactly a novice, but I am at my wits end with this mower..

I’ve been trying To make mine faster and I pully swapped it but it’s the same speed can someone help me find out why?

Hey Tim How are you? My name is Adam I also have a John Deere Tractor 1742 Gear Drive Sabre is your Briggs Intek Engine Splash Lubricated or Pressure Lubed with a Premium Spin On Oil Filter? I have a Fuel Filter on mine as well. Have you seen the Scotts John Deere Tractors they were essentially Orange John Deere Sabre Replicas.

If you short the RIO circuit, won't the relay be on all the time? Would that cause a problem, perhaps burning out the relay?

@geecrawdad

2 жыл бұрын

On my D125, I did it 4 years ago and it hasn't caused any problems. I don't know if the relay is activated, have to check. Or if it matters. Could be it doesn't activate until the reverse pedal is pressed?

The PTO switch is identical to the brake switch, on mechanical clutch mowers. It's designed to cut power to the engine when the seat switch is closed, so in theory, just taking the seat switch out should work, But, if the PTO is engaged, the white side of the switch could still ground out the ignition power... When disengaged, the start loop side of the PTO switch is closed so the solenoid gets power, but the ignition side is open. With all white wires and switches, you have to make sure they don't ground out, EXCEPT the ignition switch (so you can actually turn it off). To avoid the safety cutouts, the white wires could be cut. Confusing. BUT, if you don't want to mess with all 5 switches and jumpers and tape, you could just run the purple wire straight from the ignition switch to the start tab on the solenoid, unplug the PTO and BRAKE switch and that's it. The seat switch is in line after the brake switch, so once the brake switch unplugged, the seat switch doesn't matter. And, because the whole RIO system (pedal switch, relay, and dash switch) is downstream of the PTO switch, leaving the connector to the PTO unplugged, effectively disables the whole RIO system. Took me a while to find a good wiring diagram. Printed it, color coded the start, hot , and ground circuits so I could more easily see how all of the white wires and yellow wires worked. The brake and PTO switches are central to the whole system. And just a bit of additional info, the whole safety system of white wires is connected to the primary coils on the engine, so if ANY of them ground out, the engine has no spark. But you don't want to disconnect the white wire at the engine, unless you want to manually ground out the coils when you want it to shut off... I'm gonna test this sometime this week.

@jenniferphillips7265

4 жыл бұрын

Yup. I was correct. In fact, I found an even easier way. Unplug both the PTO and the brake plugs, remove the solid purple wire from the PTO plug end and connect it to the solenoid. Done.

@jamielamb6444

4 жыл бұрын

Jennifer, can you share where you found your wiring diagram. Ive been looking

@jenniferphillips7265

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamielamb6444 I took a picture and stuck it in my Google photos... photos.app.goo.gl/tqWBYBmpk3ckZvDs6

@jamielamb6444

4 жыл бұрын

@@jenniferphillips7265 Wonderful. Thank you.

@floweuphoria69420

Жыл бұрын

Wow this is literal gold you’re giving out

What about the safety switch that's connected to the mower blade engagement lever?

@harryeichelberger4799

4 жыл бұрын

It's the same as the brake lever... Go purple to purple... I changed my throw lever to an electronic PTO clutch and it wouldn't start... Took me a few minutes to figure out that needed to be kept in a circuit as well.

My L118 seat switch harness plug had a "H" shaped metal clip inside it that shorts the engine out if you unplug it from the seat. You can pull the metal tab straight out "harness end" & plug it back into the seat and the tractor will run if you get off it. Won't run unplugged. You absolutely must have good habits and never never get off the tractor with the mower still turning or you will lose a Foot! I mounted a 15 gal weed sprayer to the back of my mower and now I can get off and fill it or check the level or run the hose out and do spraying. plug

I'm having trouble turning mine off. I checked the solenoids or cylinders and they all look good when I go to turn it on it doesn't want to shut off is there a way of bypassing something that I could just have a toggle switch.

@KalRandom

3 жыл бұрын

Have to get a new or used ignition switch. Sometimes you can shoot some Blaster in it and work the key back and forth and the relay will close again, sometimes that works. If you fell froggy and are able to take the switch out, and apart clean the contacts (remove all the dirt in it). Most times you have to replace it tho.

Be careful with the seat sensor. On mine, when I pulled the switch off for the seat, it kept running when I got off the seat. But when I go to turn on the mower blades, it instantly turned off. I just wouldn't recommend cutting the entire sensor off unless you're prepared to rewire it. Very helpful video though. Thanks for the video!

@Troy-Echo

4 жыл бұрын

@SecularPenguinist My issue wasn't the mower turning off when I got off the seat when I removed the seat sensor, I could be sitting on the seat and as soon as I tried to engage the mower blades, the engine would turn off...so I couldn't mow at all without the sensor so I had to replace it. The reason I'd like to be able to keep the seat sensor disconnected is so I could lean over and pick up a stick or get off the seat and pick up something in the lawn without constantly having to restart the engine every time. I don't mind turning the mower off for things like this, but having the engine cut off every time I lean over or get off the mower is just a pain.

@RalphSampson...

2 жыл бұрын

@@Troy-Echo That's weird you have to turn off the engine like that. I just disengage the blades; put on the brake then, I'm good to leave the mower and it still be running. Of course, I still find it cumbersome to do all that just to pick up a f'ng stick.

@Troy-Echo

2 жыл бұрын

@@RalphSampson... True, many sticks I will not worry with, but I have an 11 YO daughter and two dogs that leave things in the lawn such as dog toys and soccer balls, tug-of-war ropes, etc., that I do not want to run over and have to replace.

@ZynexPlays

Жыл бұрын

@@Troy-Echo Had same problem, fixed it by bypassing the switch with a piece of credit card in the two middle connectors, this video sums up what I did perfectly, kzread.info/dash/bejne/Yqyel7F_gbKvnKw.html

@Troy-Echo

3 ай бұрын

@@ZynexPlaysThanks. I missed this before, but I still have my mower and I may do this at some point. My daughter will be doing a lot of the riding mowing this year, so I think I'll leave the safety switch on until she's a bit older.

If you have to ask why. Please leave the safety switch’s on.

@jerryramsey8697

3 жыл бұрын

Lol what this guy said

do i have to acctually cut the plug off the seat wires cus i unplugged it from the seat and when i went to engage the blades it tried to shut off on me

@RalphSampson...

2 жыл бұрын

Of course it did. It "thinks" your not sitting on the mower.

Thanks man

I'm confident really good

I hate that seat safety switch, sometimes I want to stand up and pee over the side but I have to be quick to get my knee up on the seat before it shuts off.

@RalphSampson...

2 жыл бұрын

Lol...great mental picture! Is there a beer in the cup holder?

@Shootingstarcomics

2 жыл бұрын

@@RalphSampson... Absolutely

@bullyakker

2 ай бұрын

@@RalphSampson... Just put the switch in the cup holder and install a full beer.. Presto!

remove the reverse switch bracket of the hydrostatic trans to get full reverse out of the trans with no bracket stopper

I understand why they put the switches into place but its just easier and (arguably safer) to just shut the mower off any time you hop off of it

I just took the wires in the switch in Arkham to the positive on a battery and smoke the switch and it's just fine without it now

back to pre moron days.. love it

Wanna get rid of the bag sensor so I can cut thick wet grass & shoot it out the back to mulch instead of trying to keep it pressed with one hand (with my fingers cramping) and steering of the other. Anyone else do this?

Elvis still had 5 years in 72!

unplugged my safety seat switch on my JD180 fixed mine

I just bought a brand new la130 John Deere mower and that’s the first thing I did was take all the stupid safety crap out

Bad ass.

I feel your pain.

I have a s240 ..I changed the logo to deere john

Sad but Deere can’t afford litigation from every dipstick who doesn’t have the capacity to not stick hand feet limbs in the cutting blade or roll the machine on him/herself. Did see another channel saying you can just unplug the seat switch don’t have to cut

👍

California will eventually require all mowers to be equipped with computer chips (adding $2000 to the price of all mowers) that prevent people from bypassing the switches or operating if it’s unable to pass an emissions test.

@geecrawdad

2 жыл бұрын

I think you guys have to give up gas operated mowers soon?

Thank you now i have to watch out for the Government police squad, holler if you see em!!! Please omg i thiink i see one in da bushes. run Deere run.

If you can't safely use a riding lawn mower with the reverse mow switch disabled, you might wanna skip driving altogether.

I recently did a video on the John Deere safety switch issue, I showed how to non-destructively delete them all. I'm working with something a little newer but from looking at your video not much has changed. Check it out if you like: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qICgzZezf7e9m7Q.html

Every one of these videos skips addressing the dangerous incline safety switch. Damn mower shuts off on steep inclines like a ditch.

The seat safety switch is primarily for idiots who try to ride a 60° bank with a junky old tractor, and flip it over on top of themselves....if you aren't doing that, you. Dont need a damn safety switch. Im single and have to jump my mower off rite now....im disabling that little f#$&er tomorrow of it kills me!😅😅

takes a lot of courage to teach an hypocrite society how to be simple

Put the brakes on an get off

if you admit its stupid why are telling people how to do it????????????????

This guy talks way too fast

lET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE LADY THAT BACKED UP OVER HER GRANDSON AND KILLED HIM WHILE MOWING. SHE COMMITTED SUICIDE LATER OVER HER GUILT