yes, the new fuses and cleaning the contacts has been my "best friends". Feed twice every day --- and I can't get along without my LX and it hasn't missed a start.
OH MY oh my !!! Now I have to ADMIT my FORGETFULLNESS !!!! I had thought that I had replaced the fuse box previously 10 or 15 years ago but I saw that NH didn't have a replacement fuse box. And when I looked up that Dorman part number I realized that I had done this a LONG TIME AGO...
This happened to me recently with a 1998 NH LX565 I was lifting something VERY heavy and all of a sudden--- the boom dropped and I was unable to tilt. I disconnected my forks and backed away from the load and I got some sporadic movement. I noticed that my hydraulic oil level was low ---- so...
I put in a new fuel filter and added Lucas Anti-Gel. It is starting great now --- but it's also about 20 degrees out (almost balmy) !! My control panel is working AOK ---- it's the in cab fuse box that I think I need to replace. But it appears that it is a part of the entire cab wiring harness.
It's working better. I had found one fuse that had blown previously in the cab fuse box and i had replaced it I was checking fuses again and found that this fuse had to be pushed it hard and at just the right angle and things are back to normal. It cranks good and I am getting a countdown...
I have an LX565 and the dash was not lighting up and it would not crank. It has ALWAYS started !! I found the negative terminal to be corroded and cleaned that. Now I have my dash light back up and it cranks normal for zero degrees and my dash grid heater light is lit but there isn't any...