What's up everyone? Welcome back to The Durbin Compound. If you haven't met me already, my name
is Devin Durbin. We're doing all kinds of man-[ __ ] here on the channel. So, please subscribe
if you're interested. At the end of this video, hopefully you'll learn something. Today we're
going to talk about how to basically disable the pressure switch on any mower seat.
So, I'm going to show you how I did it on my zero-turn. And the switch can be one of two ways.
So, when we open up the mower, I'll show you exactly how to troubleshoot which kind of switch you have,
if it's a ground switch or if the switch is completing a circuit. And then I'll show
you how to bypass that, so you never have to worry about the blades shutting off because
you're getting up out of the seat. Now there's always a safety concern of, you know, hey,
the blades are still running, but you're off the mower. Okay, exercise this with caution! Don't use it with kids...
all that dumb BS...all that disclaimer. I am by no means saying that you should do this.
I'm just saying that's it's convenient for me and this is why I've done it. So I'm going to teach you exactly
how to do it today. There's a couple videos out there, but I haven't seen anything on a zero-turn mower
and how to do it on that. So, we're going to bring it in real close. I'll show you exactly
how the switch works. And then I'll show you how I jump it. So, you can use a more permanent
solution, or you can use a temporary solution like I have, so that you can revert it back to
what it is like from the factory, so if you have to take it into the dealer, they know that
you haven't messed with it. The pressure switch is pretty much the same with any riding lawnmower,
zero-turn, a small tractor, pretty much anything it has a pressure switch in the seat.
They're all the same. They could be wired one of two ways. So we'll go over that here. Let's pull
it in close. Make a quick, down and dirty video on it and call it a day.
Basically the little switch is underneath the seat here. They're all pretty much the same, have the same kind of concept.
They have two wires going to them. The two kinds that are going to be...is one that completes a circuit,
so when I actually sit on this, it's completing the circuit in between the two wires. And then it tells
the control module that we're good to go, to keep the engine running, to keep the blades running.
So, that's how mine works. If you have one that is grounded-out, then what will happen is when you
sit on it, it will basically open up that circuit. When you come off of the seat, it will close that
circuit to ground and kill the engine. So, the way to figure this out is, you take
your terminals off here. Literally just pull them off the seat switch. Now, if it still operates the same like this,
disconnected, then you have what I would call a completing the circuit type switch.
So, if it does work after you've disconnected it, that's all you got to do.
Literally wrap these two ends in electrical tape and zip tie them out of the way. Too easy!
That's a real easy one. If you have a grounding-out switch, literally just take these off and it will not stop
when you get up off the seat. Now, since mine is one where it completes the circuit, disconnecting
it won't do anything. It'll still act the exact same way. So what you need to do is, you need to
basically connect these two wires together. If you chose to make a more permanent solution, basically
what you could do is cut these two wires, strip them back, and you could connect them directly
to each other. The way that I've done it is make a little jumper. Let me get these dikes out of my hand.
So I've made a little jumper out of wire, and a little spade connector, and basically I've
made this so that these can connect into the other ones, and make for a temporary solution. Now what
this allows me to do is run the mower exactly, you know, exactly how I want to, but I haven't cut the
factory wires, so when I take it into the dealer, or something like that, to get it serviced or
whatever, if there's a warranty issue, then I just simply put them back on here. And boom! I don't have
to worry about them telling me that they can't work on my mower because I voided my warranty...
blah, blah, blah, blah. So too easy! Just remember, if you take these completely off, and it acts how
you want it to, then boom. Too easy! Zip tie them out of the way. If it still acts the same way, then you
need to put a jumper in here. Now keep in mind that some mowers will route 12 volts DC through these.
So keep them wrapped or otherwise not bare metal anywhere, so just in case they do run
12 volts DC, you're not shorting out to anything. But that's literally how you bypass a seat switch on
literally anything, a tractor, a mower, a zero-turn. They all have the same kind of pressure switch
that just might be two different functions on how it works. One would ground-out and one would
complete a circuit. Mine completes a circuit, so you have to complete that circuit.
Okay, so this is how I've rigged up my wires. All I did was loop the loop around, put a zip tie around the wires
to hold it in place, so it won't go anywhere.
All right guys, I hope you liked my down and dirty video on how to do that seat delete switch, or delete the seat switch, video.
If you liked it, go ahead and hit subscribe. I'm doing all kinds of little stuff here and there on things that I think
could be useful and just learn about. I didn't really go into detail on this video because
I don't know how much people like to see the actual nitty-gritty detail. I could have drawn out a
diagram and shown you exactly how it works, but I chose not to do it on this video. If you'd like to
see that, please comment below and say, "I'd like you to go into more detail on how that circuit works
and so I can understand that a little bit better." I think I explained it good enough,
but if you think it needs more, if you think I should be a little bit more detailed, then please put it
in the comments because I need a lot of feedback from you guys, to see what you guys want to see.
So that's all for now. I guess I don't have anything else to talk about. I'm just bumping
my gums at this point, so I'll see you guys next video. And I hope to see you around the channel.