Hi folks.  I am finishing up the electrical portion of my D4 and have a question, maybe opinion or fact I don't know.  When I got my tractor, it had a piece of greenfield (flexible electrical conduit) between the battery box and the firewall/dash.  Is this correct?  How should the wire be routed?  It kind of wants to lie on the floorboard but that is close to the left brake and perhaps a high wear area where it could get stepped on.  If greenfield is used, is it on top of the fender or attached to the inside of the fender?  Pictures would be nice.  Thank you!  Elton


 

I used 2/0 welding cable, so it is very flexible. On yours, is the cable attached to the fender? Mine doesn't show any sign of attachment holes. I was considering a piece of 3/4 greenfield screwed onto the inside vertical edge of the fender, away from the top and the floor, but I don't want to do something stupid looking either. I guess I would like to do it the way CAT would have if they put together my set up with both pony and electric starting. Elton

The information your looking for is in the "attachments" section of Form 32523 on page 161 (copy attached below). The conduit is part #6B3675. Clips are part # 5B, held in place with nuts.

The attached picture is how it is mounted of my 7U. Hope this helps.

Thank you Neil and Phildirt. I appreciate your help so much. Elton

rubber/vynil type flexible conduit would be the ideal and if you cant get yellow and don't like black paint it with a plastics primer and then a light coat of cat yellow.
remember it doesn't have to be exactly spot on original it just has to work properly and be in the spirit of what it was. the only opinion that truly matters when it comes to how your machine looks is your own!

Thank you all for your ideas and opinions. The tractor wiring is complete and it runs! Sunday afternoon after adjusting the main clutch brake so I could get it in gear, I took a little cruse around my place. Lots of slobber, but I hope to put it under a load soon and stop that nonsense. Otherwise it ran well! I think my wife was as tickled as I was. I haven't yet put the hydraulics or blade back on since I wanted to run it a bit and make sure it was ok before doing all that. I will unfortunately have to remove the radiator to install the front PTO drive for the hydraulic. But we are much closer than 1.5 years ago when it came to live with me. Elton

Well done, you will have a lot of fun with that tractor