 everyone Shaber 1000 here. I've got this John Deere LA-145 that won't start. Now this is different from the other one that I posted okay where it had a stick in it this is a little different because can you hear that? We're going to diagnose this and find out what's going on with it. Stick around. Okay guys sorry about the wind noise I do have a lapel mic on thought maybe that would help but let's raise the hood up on this now I suspect this right here let me get you in here a little bit tighter that right there is a starting solenoid starter solenoid whichever you prefer right there now of course the first thing you're going to always want to check is the battery I'm pretty sure this battery is good I'm pretty sure it's up you can test it with a multimeter okay but a lot a lot of people don't have that thing but I know what a lot of people do have is a screwdriver just get you an old screwdriver a nail whatever but if I try to crank that that solenoid is clicking now I'm gonna go ahead and shut this off because I don't want it to start this thing might start up so leave your ignition off and there's a pole here and a pole here let me I don't want my glasses on I should put my glasses on here so I can see what's going on in the camera okay so again sorry for the wind there's a pole here and pole here okay take your screwdriver piece of metal whatever a wrench and it's cranking over the battery is a little low but it's cranking but if I use the key nothing so I know what that is so I went ahead and ordered one and I'll get some details with that here in just a second now this here this is what I ordered let me back you out okay this is what it looks like all right these things are very easy to change now again a lot of you guys already know this but thanks for watching anyway this is for the people that don't know that might help them save them a little money it's going to bolt on just like that now it's aftermarket so you know it could look a little different here and the way it bolts on to see that one's kind of bolted on like that with it but it's okay all right so what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and change this out and see if that makes a difference now what I'm going to be using this one here is bigger that's a half inch for the old one this new one is a 7 16 just got a couple of wrenches here first thing you're going to want to do is unhook this battery okay now I'm going to cut you off for a second I'm going to move you over here and point you down maybe you can see a little bit better okay the first thing we're going to do is unhook this battery you only have to unhook one side now preferably if you can get to it always unhook your negative cable first and I'm going to have to go get another wrench to hold that but always unhook your negative cable first that way if it touches any kind of metal at all it's not going to spark now if you do it over here in touch metal you're going to spark possibly cause a fire melt some wires ruin your wrench weld your wrench to the frame whatever always unhook your negative cable first now let me go get another wrench and we'll take that off now let's hold one end I know these need need to be cleaned real good but this summer I want to put so when I wouldn't rubbing the mic too bad I want to put a new battery in it and I'm gonna put this in my orange one and the one that's in the orange one I'll take in for a return so always make sure they're clean because sometimes they get that looks like green fur growing on it so now this new part at the end of this video I will put a list on the screen of all the tractors this one part will fit we'll work on okay so right now we're just going to put this on here it's not back on here so we don't lose it which I'll put new new nuts on it and everything like that this tractor's old it's I'm probably 10 years old I'd have to look it up but pretty sure it's at least 10 years old now over here let me see let me bring you over here and I guess I can work from the other side there we go I'll bring in a little tighter on that shot okay if you want you can take pictures of how these go but this is the purple wire also the first thing you can do too is clean your connections but I know for a fact this one's bad but if you want go ahead and clean all your connections first take a picture of this so purple's going to be on the right black's going to be on the left so all right now I'm going to go ahead now see I can touch them and nothing will happen because I unhooked positive cable so let's go ahead but yeah I know for a fact that that's what this issue's been going on for a long time I've got one here I was going to put on it which would work it would work fine but I didn't want to cut these original wires so I didn't use this so and it got to where it would do that and you tap on it and it would start then last time we had it running I tapped on it it would not start so I'm just going to put this back on here like that let's go ahead and take this off so my guess what I'm I'm going to be thinking and I don't work me on it but I'm thinking this is going to be the bottom one right here so that's where the starter wire is going to go it's going to go here and the battery wire is going to go here purple will go here black will go there but we'll get to that and if it don't work you're not going to burn something up it just won't start for you so like I said these are half inch these are five sixteenths which I have out here somewhere I think I brought it and I had it my hand okay I gotta go find my five sixteenths hang on a second guys again back now just take these little screws out now listen guys if you break these off ain't no big deal just move it over drill you another little hole and put these back in it's not a big it's not a big deal if these break you can use self-tappers on these as long as it as long as it holds it in there and it's not flopping around what it does it has a connection in there okay and what happens is when you energize both of these okay that's what turns your motor over that's what puts power from here to that in order for that to do that your wire see the blacks the ground your purple wire when you turn the key over to start it it puts a puts 12 volts into this okay and what that does inside of here is a little electromagnet and it will pull something like a little washer in there it'll pull it up against the inside of these two posts and that's what makes contact and then when you let off the key this goes dead and then you're running okay so that's how that works in a nutshell I mean that's pretty much it I don't have a cutaway see it's just one of these you can use self-tappers if you have to if you break one of these off it's not the end of the world don't freak out now I'm going to give you the part number of this thing because this thing will fit I don't know 50 or 60 different lawn lawn tractors I'll put it on the screen but I'll give you a part the part number for this here in just a second and where it came from and how much it costs and all that but let's get this on here first make sure okay all right now like I said it's gonna put this back on here you can clean that up but it doesn't ground through that so it's not very important that you do so you can just put this on here and no it's not half-assing the job is done right get my fingers working right here find the threads yeah this came late because it came in the damn mail but it went I'll tell you where it went I always try to do the hard one first and get it out of the way this came from New Philadelphia Ohio about 45 minutes from hometown if that something like that okay came from New Philadelphia Ohio now and it left there left New Philadelphia and went up to Grand Rapids Michigan left Grand Rapids Michigan it went to New Hampshire it left New Hampshire came down here to Florida and it went to Jacksonville it left Jacksonville went to Gainesville went from Gainesville to here now I don't know why it would have to go into Michigan then over to New Hampshire to come down here to Florida you know so it went it went northwest and it traveled over to Northeast before it headed south and how it was traveling in those three states for a week before it headed this way and then like I said it went to Jacksonville Gainesville then down to here so if you ask me it's a lot of fuel and it wasn't it wasn't flowing of course it was ask me it's a lot of fuel wasted fuel when it could leave there and just go straight to Jacksonville and they're all distribution centers distribution centers okay so anyway it's not about that I just thought you'd be interested in that because it's kind of weird now we're gonna take has a lock lock washer on it now we're gonna put this one here right put this one on here and when you tighten these guys don't don't go crazy on them because you'll snap them off okay so I can get my fingers work right today but it happens right now remember this one's a 7 16ths and go ahead and tighten this down I don't think these two matter because all it does is make power go from one to the other so these two don't matter all right and like I said make sure you clean your connections up real good this one looked pretty good and I'm putting new stuff on it I may take a wire brush across that battery but like I said I'm getting a new battery for it probably March when mowing the season kicks in she likes to mow a lot actually we both do but she really likes it and I really like it but someday she'll I'll just hear the mower fire up she'll beat me to it so I want it to be right for her when she gets on it to use it your washer on or not on won't get enough go like that I'm going to switch these two around because like I said these two does not matter because all it's going to do all it does is just make contact between the two so I'm just going to go ahead these two big ones they do not matter because the power on this goes through this a little wire right here and then into this fuse which you know run your lights your charging system and all that so it's connected on to this so that's not going to matter let's go ahead and put this on here put our nut on some people called a bolt that's going on to a bolt it's a pretty nice day out today I think it's like it's pushing 70 degrees it might be 70 it's supposed to be 72 it might be 70 but it is breezy today a lot breezer than it was yesterday it's not cold I mean I'm pretty comfortable let's see that way it's a little closer looks a little better and I got a comment from an idiot that said you know you see you don't like to half-ass anything but that was when I was doing a door handle on the truck and apparently ran out of memory but I did explain to everything everybody and I showed how it goes on and so I had to comment about that nothing was half-assed just because my memory card got full you know I still did the job and did it right it's not half-ass you know how can you can screw running out a memory card on your camera to half-ass and a job saying I didn't well that's how I know they don't watch the damn thing all the way through when I explain and I show look this how it goes and pretty much if you take something apart that simple it's because it was like how's the clips go on I explained that but if you take something apart that damn simple and you put it back and opposite of what you did it's you know I mean pretty self-explanatory isn't it just go backwards from the way you did it the way you took it off I mean but as far as the job that's not half-assing anything the job was done it was done right and it works and it was done with very new parts so anyway freaking trolls then I had a guy comment one day we was going back and forth about something it was just like you know he's he's just a little smart ass I mean you can tell it keyboard warrior and his mommy's basement my give me another sandwich I got a comment to this dude hitting the dislike buttons I finally I finally deleted him and you know blocked him but the thing about it is you know he just he's flat said one day just message me or not message me but comment on something you're a fucking asshole you know why I don't need your shit you're done you know all because you know I'm proving a point and yeah I have a right to defend myself I don't have to take that shit from anybody you know when I'm doing the job and I'm doing it right I've got a fairly high IQ I would think of 144 is not too bad if you ask me but anyway then I had a guy comment well I got 184 IQ I see your IQ is not you don't even know what what an IQ is he says you only got 144 well that's borderline genius you know so but I got a right to defend myself you know what I mean and and that's what I want to do but we just call me a fucking asshole because I'm proving a point you you know and you can't win that's ridiculous okay so let's back you out here I remember the batteries a little low but let's just let's go and see if it'll start I got to get a new throttle lever for this thing I got charger here just in case I need to well just in case I need to boost it all right so we're gonna put this on here I'm gonna put this one on here all right let's just touch it real quick there we go see all right let's see if it'll start it's been sitting for a while might not start okay no problem I got a booster right here no big deal see this one's in here that one really needs clean but like I said when I put a new battery in it's getting all new I may put new cables on it but I may not need them and put this on here I want to kick it up to it's just 40 amps that should be enough to crank this I'm not gonna have to put a 200 amp boost but let's try it well maybe I am I know last time we started it the battery was dead because it sat for a long time and I just ran it around front and back around here and it kept that charge that good there we go one thing I don't like about this tractor it does not have an amp gauge but I check it every so often sounds like it needs the valves adjusted you hear that tapping sounds like a knock so there it is I got all the gaskets and everything to rebuild this engine I do not have the rings there's a few different size rings for this thing and I even run it through the the model type and code number still three different sets of rings three different sizes so for this engine I don't know how it can be a different size one 22 horse but I do I saw what I have to do let's take the damn engine apart and put a micrometer on the rings get the right rings see I think charge is up really good all right so that's that now let me show you some part numbers let's talk about the part okay guys the part I got is from Stens okay Tarot Dactyl would be proud of me wouldn't he a lot of you guys might know who I'm talking about but I love that guy he's really cool part number is 435-151 now that will fit a tractor a John Deere tractor from the 102 clear up to the Z335 E and more so what I'm going to do is I'm going to run it across the screen I'm going to bring it up kind of slow and you guys can pause and look for your for your particular tractor and so I'm going to do that right now so you guys can check your part numbers if you need to if not go ahead and skip forward to the outro there you guys go first thing to check check your battery if you don't have a multimeter like I said arc your arc a screwdriver cross them to post and it should crank and if it doesn't then you could have a dead battery try to jump start it see if you see where you go from there if you're if your ends are kind of nasty like this one is clean all your connections first clean them all up still don't do anything you know put a jumper box on it still don't do anything then you know arc across that solenoid now if that does not work there could be an issue with your starter it could be hanging up it could be you know the the cable on your starter there's one cable runs right down to the starter and go ahead and clean it you know take the nut off clean it real good and try that but I think chances are once you find if it's clicking like that and you don't have a dead battery usually if it's clicking your your connections are making a good connections always good to clean them anyway but usually that's that's telling you at least to the solenoid it is getting connection and usually what you'll find is it's it's a bad solenoid sometimes tap on it if you tap on it and it cranks fine then you know that's what it is but hopefully this helps somebody just kind of quick self-explanatory like I said just four wires the two top ones you know no big deal like I said take a picture if you want these aftermarket ones like I said may look a little different but if you got the two small ones and the two big ones it's going to fit your tractor you can also get these at part stores you know you can go to your local lawnmower shop or you know small engine shop I ordered this online I got a three eBay it came out of I don't know the guy's eBay store name but it came out of New Philadelphia Ohio and it was $15 free shipping you can spend you know $30 on these if you go through John Deere you're looking at 30 bucks but if you go you know this is the stands and if you go through stands now I don't know how much it'll cost through stands okay but this is a stands part like I said this was $15 so just shop around and you should be okay again sorry for the wind noise we got this we got it running now start it'll start for I am going to go ahead and put it on trickle charge for a couple hours I think it'll be fine like I said I will be putting a new battery in it and I'm going to put that battery into my orange one and when I do that I'm going to clean all the connections and all that stuff like you should do anytime you change a battery so that battery is old battery I forget well we've been together over four years and that battery that battery was sitting in a garage her original battery which I still have finally puked in it and she said well that battery is no good and I said well let me let me check it and I checked it with a test light test light was a little dim I thought hmm so I put it on the charger for a little bit and then I checked it with a multi meter and it came up 13 something 13 volts I was like well this battery is good at least for now and this was over three years ago and it's still going so but it is getting old so like I said it'll be good enough for my orange tractor orange tractors just to back up anyway so there you guys go hopefully again it helped and I'm sorry about the wind noise I'm sorry if I was rubbing the mic too much please bear with me I don't I never wore a lot but like out here I wanted to get my mouth closer to the mic so you guys could hear me better so anyway hopefully that helped hopefully you found your part number and like I said that's what I looked up I copied that off the line it said and many more you know so you know best thing you can do is just look your part over and if it looks like that chances are it's gonna be right okay you know make sure it's 12 volt blah blah blah I think you'll be okay but with that list you just saw I mean it's got your tractor will probably fall under that somewhere that also it's not just for John Deere these will work on MTD craftsman which craftsman MTD it will work on you know Murray's pretty much anything that has that two little wires and the two big wires pretty much fit any of those kind of tractors so you know I mean it'll fit I was going to take the one off my simplicity and put on here but I just went ahead and ordered one because that way I didn't have to do it twice because if I had to took it off took mine off put on hers and I would just put a new one on that one instead of pulling it off again I was like now I want to make sure she has a good one because I don't know how old that one is on the simplicity but it's the same one it'll fit that simplicity it fits fits hundreds of different tractors so what you what you want to do is just you know if you if you go to order one if you don't have a John Deere if you have a craftsman or a Murray or a simplicity or something like a if you have one of those you know just when you go to order it just you know make sure your tractor is covered you know because usually down below it will give you a list of compatible vehicles compatible tractors so make sure just make sure you look it over good and like I said don't be alarmed if it shaped a little different take a picture of yours if you have to take it off clean your stuff boom now if your stuff's really clean you know there's no shame in doing one wire at a time you know I'm bolting the old one leaving the wires attached bolt the new one on then take one wire off at a time put on your new one there's no shame in that even if it does need clean you know clean it as you take it off and put it back on real simple so you guys should be all right if you have any questions leave them in comments below and I'll get back to you as quick as I can and we'll try to get straightened out together so was that being said guys thanks for watching shape error the myth man alleged I'm gone for now hope this helped stens bye bye guys and take care