Several weeks ago had a neighbor use the Kubota with loader to fill deer feeders. Well, as luck would have it he left the key on for for about 2 weeks. Ran the 4 year old Interstate down to where it wouldn't even take a charge. I used my battery charger with 200amp jump start. Fired right up. He had some kind of battery charger/ rejuvenator he said might bring it back. Plugged it in and a day later it blew the battery up. Blew both caps off, split the top from the case halfway around.
Had to leave town so I asked him to take it down to the local hardware store so they could order a new one. I don't know if they took it for a core or not, didn't care just needed a battery.
Put the new battery in today after installing a new control valve for the loader.
Went to start it, didn't spin fast enough to start. Used the decomp to get it to spin faster, nope, didn't spin as fast as it used to. Thought the battery was bad, nope over 13 volts. Checked and clean all points of contact. Same thing.
It tries to start but it's not spinning fast enough.
Now, I'm trying to remember, but I think the old group 24 battery might have been 1000 cold cranking amps. This new battery is on 800. Could it be that this isn't enough to spin it fast enough, or is the starter giving out?
Does anyone know if the 800 cold cc is enough, and if not I need suggestions as to what to get. I called the Interstate distributor in San Antonio, but they weren't any help. Went to their website, no help there either except they said they couldn't find a group 24 with 1000 cold cranking amps.
If I need those amps I'll have to start a search for one, and I'm not against having to fab a new battery holder.
Thanks in advance.
Had to leave town so I asked him to take it down to the local hardware store so they could order a new one. I don't know if they took it for a core or not, didn't care just needed a battery.
Put the new battery in today after installing a new control valve for the loader.
Went to start it, didn't spin fast enough to start. Used the decomp to get it to spin faster, nope, didn't spin as fast as it used to. Thought the battery was bad, nope over 13 volts. Checked and clean all points of contact. Same thing.
It tries to start but it's not spinning fast enough.
Now, I'm trying to remember, but I think the old group 24 battery might have been 1000 cold cranking amps. This new battery is on 800. Could it be that this isn't enough to spin it fast enough, or is the starter giving out?
Does anyone know if the 800 cold cc is enough, and if not I need suggestions as to what to get. I called the Interstate distributor in San Antonio, but they weren't any help. Went to their website, no help there either except they said they couldn't find a group 24 with 1000 cold cranking amps.
If I need those amps I'll have to start a search for one, and I'm not against having to fab a new battery holder.
Thanks in advance.