Case MX Series User manual

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
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MX SERIES MAGNUM TRACTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
TO THE OWNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION AND SERIAL NUMBERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
MACHINE COMPONENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 - SAFETY/DECALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
SAFETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
DECALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
ROLL OVER PROTECTIVE STRUCTURE (ROPS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
TRACTOR WARNING LAMPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3 - OPERATING CONTROLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
TRACTOR ACCESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
INSTRUMENT PANEL CONTROLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
STEERING COLUMN CONTROLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
FOOT PEDALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
RIGHT CONSOLE CONTROLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
ARMREST CONSOLE CONTROLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
RIGHT HAND FENDER CONTROLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
OPERATORS SEAT WITH AIR SUSPENSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4 - INSTRUMENTATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
TRACTOR INSTRUMENTATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
PANEL 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
PANEL 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
PANEL 3 (OPTIONAL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
PANEL 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
5 - OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
BEFORE STARTING THE ENGINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
SERVICE INDICATOR LAMPS AND BAR GRAPH DISPLAYS . . . . . . . 90
RUN-IN PROCEDURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
NORMAL STARTING PROCEDURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
STOPPING THE ENGINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
COLD TEMPERATURE OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
POWER SHIFT TRANSMISSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
TRANSMISSION OPERATIONAL COMPONENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
SHUTTLE SHIFTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
CREEPER SPEED OPERATION (IF EQUIPPED) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
TOWING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
HOW TO TRANSPORT THE TRACTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
GENERAL PROCEDURES FOR CONNECTING IMPLEMENTS . . . . . 115

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POWER TAKEOFF (PTO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
THREE POINT HITCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
HITCH OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
OPERATING IN POSITION CONTROL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
DRAWBAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
DRAWBAR PREPARATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE TRAILER HITCHES
(IF EQUIPPED) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
IMPLEMENT/TRAILER DRAWBAR DIMENSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
FRONT HITCH (IF EQUIPPED) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
REMOTE HYDRAULICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
LOADER OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
CHEMICAL TANK MOUNTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
AUXILIARY POWER CONNECTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
MONITOR MOUNTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
GROUND SPEED SENSOR CONNECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
HYDRAULIC TRAILER BRAKE CONNECTOR (IF EQUIPPED) . . . . . . 185
PNEUMATIC TRAILER BRAKE COUPLINGS (IF EQUIPPED) . . . . . . 186
CAB STEPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
7 - IN FIELD PERFORMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
DIFFERENTIAL LOCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
MFD OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
BALLASTING YOUR TRACTOR FOR OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE . . 198
TIRE LOAD AND INFLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
TIRE LOAD AND INFLATION CHART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
FRONT END WEIGHTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
REAR WHEEL WEIGHTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
TIRE LIQUID WEIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
TIRE AND RIM SERVICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
TIRE AND RIM EQUIPMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
WHEEL SLIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
POWER HOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
MECHANICAL FRONT DRIVE (MFD) TRACTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
MFD STEERING AND OSCILLATION STOPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
FRONT WHEEL FENDERS (IF EQUIPPED) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
REAR AXLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
TRACTOR JACKING POINTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
REAR WHEEL TREAD SETTING - SINGLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
REAR WHEEL TREAD SETTING - DUALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
8 - LUBRICATION/FILTERS/FLUIDS/MAINTENANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
LUBRICATION AND MAINTENANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
SYSTEM CAPACITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
HOOD AND SERVICE DOOR ACCESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

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LUBRICATION/MAINTENANCE CHART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
9 - ELECTRICAL SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
SPECIFICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
RADIO REGIONAL PROGRAMMING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
BATTERY SYSTEM SERVICING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
BULB AND LAMP REPLACEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
10 - SPECIFICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
DIESEL ENGINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
POWER TRAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
TRAVEL SPEEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
APPROXIMATE MEASUREMENTS AND WEIGHTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
DETAIL INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

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1 - TO THE OWNER
MX SERIES MAGNUM TRACTORS
RD99A038
NOTE: The right and left side of the tractor used in this manual are the same as
the right hand and left hand when sitting in the tractor seat looking forward.
CASE CORPORATION
24th and Mead Street
Racine, WI 53403
U.S.A.
DEALER’S STAMP
522L94

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TO THE OWNER
This manual covers the MX180, MX200, MX220, MX240 and MX270 models. This
manual contains important information about the safe operation, adjustment and
maintenance of your MX Series Magnum tractors. Refer to the Detail Index at the
end of this manual for locating specific items about your machine.
DO NOT operate or permit anyone to operate or service this machine until you or
the other persons have read this manual. Use only trained operators who have
demonstrated the ability to operate and service this machine correctly and safely.
This tractor, with standard equipment and authorized attachments, is intended to
be used for farming, ranching, etc.
DO NOT use this machine for any application or purpose other than those
described in this manual. Consult an authorized dealer or the Case Corporation
on changes, additions or modifications that can be required for this machine to
comply with various country regulations and safety requirements. Unauthorized
modifications will cause serious injury or death. Anyone making such
unauthorized modifications is responsible for the consequences.
This Operators Manual is to be stored in the manual compartment equipped on
this machine. Make sure this manual is complete and in good condition. Contact
your dealer to obtain additional manuals. Contact your dealer for any further
information or assistance about your machine. Your dealer has Case Corporation
approved service parts. Your dealer has technicians with special training that
know the best methods of repair and maintenance for your tractor.
Manual Storage Compartment
RD98F146
Keep the Operators Manual in the
storage compartment provided on your
tractor. The Operators Manual must be
available for use by all operators.

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EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY
This tractor complies with the provisions of directive 89/336/EEC Electromagnetic
Compatibility.
EMC - Supplementary Information
Safety information for the supplementary installation of electrical and
electronic appliances and/or components.
This tractor is equipped with electronic constituents and component parts whose
function can be influenced by electromagnetic radiations of other appliances.
Such influences can cause hazards for persons if the following safety information
is not taken into account:
1. For supplementary installation of electrical and electronic appliances and/or
constituents on the tractor with a connection to the onboard system, the user
HAS to verify whether the installation causes disturbances to the electronics
on the tractor or other constituents. This particularly applies to:
Also it has to be taken into account that the supplementary installed electrical and
electronic components comply with the EMC Directive 89/336/EEC in the
respective current version and that they are CE marked.
2. For the supplementary installation of mobile communication systems (i.e.
radio communication, mobile telephone) the following additional requirements
have to be fulfilled:
A. Only devices with an approval complying with the valid national
regulations must be installed.
B. The devices must be firmly installed.
C. The operation of portable or mobile devices within the cab of the tractor
is ONLY permitted if the device has a fixed outside antenna.
D. The transmitting part shall be installed separately to the tractor
electronics.
E. Installation of the antenna must be carried out by a professional and the
antenna must have a good ground connection between the antenna and
the tractor ground.
For the correct size cabling, installation and the maximum permissible current
supply, the installation instructions of the tractor manufacturer have to be
considered additionally.
A. Powershift Control Button B. Instrument Cluster

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PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION AND
SERIAL NUMBERS
Write your machine Model Number, Product Identification Number (P.I.N.), and
Serial Numbers of major components on the lines provided. If needed, give
these numbers to your dealer when you need parts or information for your
machine.
1. TRACTOR MODEL NUMBER ________________________________________________
2. PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER *JJA _________________________________ *
3. ENGINE SERIAL NUMBER __________________________________________________
4. TRANSMISSION SERIAL NUMBER ___________________________________________
5. CAB SERIAL NUMBER _____________________________________________________
6. MFD AXLE SERIAL NUMBER ________________________________________________
Identification Number Locations
Tractor Model and Product
Identification Number
RD98H043
NOTE: The Tractor Model and Product
Information Number plate contains
permissible towing loads for your
specific tractor model.
Engine Serial Number
RD98H044

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Transmission Serial Number
NOTE: The transmission serial number
can be located in one of the locations
shown below.
RD99A014
RD01J013
Cab Serial Number
RP98G526
MFD Axle Serial Number
RD98H042