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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Braido" data-source="post: 19447" data-attributes="member: 2117"><p>Hey guys, newbie to the site!!! glad I found it though!. My Dad decided several months ago to purchase a JD 125 - originally with a 4cyl gas but replaed with what the "seller" called a 40 hp isuzu diesel, I call it a cobbled mess!! He claimed that it spun a bearing on the hydrolic pump and sold it to my dad hook line and sinker.. anyway, we got it home took it all apart rebuilt the hydro pumps and had a new weld put on the shaft attaching to the flywheel. Yesterday we got it all back together and were ready to hook up the battery (brand new). It sparked on the neg terminal and discharged it to 50% capacity. I attempted to charge it up but noticed that it would only get to 8.4 volts making me suspect that something is either drawing off it or that we have a short somewhere. The neutral start switches are (and were) bypassed and the starter is hook directly to the battery. picture this: positive wire directly to the starter, cable from starter to seleniod (from same terminal as the positive) on the selenoid there is a wire from the alternator that is connected to the same terminal as the posi from the starter: could the glow plugs or something else be pulling power constant from the battery because of the cable from the starter?</p></blockquote><p></p>