411b caseamatic

what to look for when looking at a used caseamatic.never been around a case before.

Well, to start with, do the usual walk-around. Look for excessive ware on the brake and inching/clutch pedals, along with drawbar wear,3pt ware, and of course check the dipsticks on the engine torque tube/hyd. resivoir and rear end. Check the radiator to see if there is any sign of oil in it, as the com has a cooling coil in the bottom tank of the radiator.
After your visual walk around, start the tractor, and check the gauges, especially the converter pressure gauge.
See if it comes up in the green, and then pull the RH lever down under the steering wheel and see if it maintains pressure. Then idle it down, push the inching pedal, and see how it shifts into gear. A little gear grind is normal, but if you get into one of the lower gears and the tractor starts to move, is not a good sign, unless it has the wrong oil in it. This tractor originally had Type A tranny fluid in it. Put it into a higher gear and step on the throttle, it should start to roll, and then pull the RH lever under the steering wheel, and it should lock up the tranny to the engine.
This COM tranny combines a torque converter on the engine flywheel, with a manually controlled, (RH lever)clutch pack which locks the converter solid to the tranny. This all needs to work, or you will be having to repair the clutch pack, bushings, and seals that prevent converter/hyd oil from transfering to the rear end. via the pto shaft that runs from the flywheel to the pto in the rear. which is filled with 90 gear oil.
You also have to check that the 3pt hitch doesn't drop down when it has weight on it, because the lift piston seals could be leaking and transfering hyd/converter fluid to the rearend.
Hope you are a tractor guy so you can understand erything I said.
Loren