Thursday, August 31, 2023

Repurpousing spent John Deere relayed actuator.

The actuator is from a 2015 TX gator.

One if tbhe internal relays went causing it to only randomly go up .  


Taking it apart for inspection to find out it's not servicable.




Also this number means nothing.Part is also not sold . 
So I checked the operation up and down with direct battery power.
Ram works and sounds pretty good.


I decided to reuse it for our brush which had an aftermarket ram that runs very slow. 
Two of our gators I had wired relays and switches to run the drag brush.


I pulled the rubber grommet out and pulled each wire through  and reinstalled grommet and added a little silicon . 



Test run. Works great but wheels didn't come up of the ground enough.


After a little thinking I decided to go this route so I can alway go back to OEM if I wanted to in the future.



Worked out great.

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

2015 TX gator Latch replacement

We have 8 units here,half of them need the tailgate latch replaced.



They still work .
Just a little hard to pull some of them.


Part # 


No mud guard for top but does come with replacenent clips .



A little tip to get them on easy. I'm using a 5/16' nut to hold latch open. 


Onlt 2 screws 


and 2 clips to take out. remember which way they go and also the clip actaully clips on top of clip so to get them back in you might have to tip front downthen up as your pushing in place .



Pull latch rods out enough for latch to fall out. Remember orintaion for installing.


Should just fall out.


Assemble in reverse order