Help- error code 76-73

[murph75]

Hi- I have recently purchased a 2003 S185 bobcat, I haven't used it for the first few months only every now and then to move it. Plan is to give it a paint a service use it to construct our new house then sell it. The first problem I noticed was the display on the hour meter disappeared but the machine still started and moved ok, over the last few days I have had it up on blocks and started to paint it, this afternoon I wanted to remove the safety thing on the ram so I started the machine pushed the green "press to operate loader " button ,I raised the bucket slightly got out , removed the safety and got back in , this is where it all turned pear shape, I pressed the green button again but nothing , I turned the machine off and attempted to restart again nothing, I now get a 76-73 code flashing up spasmodically (sometimes it stays on sometimes it flashes and sometimes it goes blank) on the screen and everynow and then just for a split second the hour meter re-appears. I have been stuffing about for about 4 hours and out of the 8 million attempted starts it has started twice but neither time does the green button work.I have read a previous post about the same error code but it refers to RX wire 9200 and the controller and in this instance the machine still operated, . If anyone can help I would be very grateful. Thanks

 

[mreimler]

I had a some what similar code problem and it turned out to be a bad battery. Replaced the battery and no more problems.