This is a series of videos showing my journey toward building a custom 4x4 Cub Cadet lawn tractor
Curated by: Bill Bayer (108 videos)
We have wheels spinning! Well, mostly... Once I figured out I had a normally-closed push button switch where a normally-open is needed, I was able to get the wheels to turn. They don't go full speed yet though. I'm also getting an error message for a motor temp fault. I suspect the wires in the motor encoder connector are all messed up. My wiring diagram tells me which wire form the controller goes where into the motor but I don't know which wire is which on the motor side. I've reached out to a friend for a little help. I also made sure the wiring harness doesn't get stretched or bound up with the tractor at full lock steering and articulation. I didn't talk about it in the video but, while testing that, I noticed there was some significant interference between the brake pedal and the frame. It took over an hour of grinding and cutting to clearance that. Now I have a gaping half-arc in my left-front frame rail. The right side isn't effected. The asymmetry is very annoying but a necessary evil. I'll sleep fine I'm sure. Thanks for watching! Bill