Hello all, I recently purchased my first piece of heavy machinery for my small farm, a 2012 John Deere 329D with about 4500 hrs. I have been clearing land with it (pushing trees and such). This afternoon a log got jammed against the front glass and shattered it (blatant operator error I know). After dealing with the mess of glass, I moved the machine back to the driveway. Apparently some of the glass slid inside of the rubber joystick cover and seems to be interfering with the joystick. The left stick feels fine and appears to me to return to its normal position, but I now cannot get hydraulics working as the display reads "Left Joystick Not Centered" (paraphrasing). I have removed all of the glass that I can see under the stick cover. Unfortunately the boom is lifted slightly, and I cannot lower it to lift the cab and get at the joystick from the underside. I have looked around a bit on this forum and found instructions for entering service mode, hoping that I could clear the joystick problem at least long enough to lower the boom... I hold the menu button for 5 seconds, and "Service Mode" is displayed, but it quickly kicks back in to Main Menu mode... whether or not I press any of the buttons to try to cycle through the service mode options. I don't know why I can't access any of the service options. Any suggestions?
Sorry I realize I've posted this in the wrong place. Hopefully a moderator can delete it for me...
you're fine, they may move it but that's ok. Try holding the joystick just a little each way and try to unlock.