A friend had a tractor that was having all kinds of weird problems and brought it over to me to look at. Sure enough, wouldn't start, everything goofy was what I saw when took a quick look at the end of the day. Shut the building lights off to lock up the place and noticed a glowing coming from over in the corner where his tractor was parked, so went to take a look. Climbed up and all the meters on the dash were lit real dim, but there was no key in the ignition, switches were off, so no reason for the dash lights to be lit. Strange, very strange so I went at it first thing in the morning. Battery ground was loose at the engine block, but for whatever reason, there was a No.18 ground from the negative battery terminal to the ground on the dash, and a No.18 from that ground back to the engine ground. That No.18 wasn't a big enough ground, so lots of stuff was trying to use the dash meter bulbs as ground to dissapate voltage as ground. Corrected the No.2 ground from the battery to the engine block, removed the No.18 from the battery to the dash, but replaced the No.18 from the dash to the engine block with a No.10, no more loop, no more too small of a gauge, problem solved.
No or bad ground can cause a world of problems no matter the application and should be one of the first things checked has been my experience, and when it comes to ground, bigger is better.
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