Hi Everyone,
I recently purchased a Case 200 Dual Range tractor with a Woods finish mower. It started right up for the test drive the other day, last night for a ride around, and today for me to begin mowing. About half way through mowing, the tractor died like someone had turned the key off. I disengaged the PTO, shifted to Neutral and it started back up. I did about 15 minutes more work until it died again. Now it will not start back up. I had ran the tractor for about 2.5-3.0 hours total before any of these issues happened.
It was running low on gas today, so I put 10 gallons of Regular grade gasoline in it before starting it up for the first time.
It cranks over fine, it has oil. I think it may be an electrical issue seeing that it died out of nowhere instead of sputtering out first.
I saw coolant temp was around 180F. From the manual I have, isn't the thermostat supposed to open around 175-180F? Originally I was thinking it could be an overheating issue, but that seems unlikely. On that note, I pulled the cap off the radiator and am unable to see any fluid near the top of the fill neck. Does anyone have a best guess as to the location of the fill line? I don't want it to start bubbling out once I get this figured out.
Thank you in advance!
Dayton
I recently purchased a Case 200 Dual Range tractor with a Woods finish mower. It started right up for the test drive the other day, last night for a ride around, and today for me to begin mowing. About half way through mowing, the tractor died like someone had turned the key off. I disengaged the PTO, shifted to Neutral and it started back up. I did about 15 minutes more work until it died again. Now it will not start back up. I had ran the tractor for about 2.5-3.0 hours total before any of these issues happened.
It was running low on gas today, so I put 10 gallons of Regular grade gasoline in it before starting it up for the first time.
It cranks over fine, it has oil. I think it may be an electrical issue seeing that it died out of nowhere instead of sputtering out first.
I saw coolant temp was around 180F. From the manual I have, isn't the thermostat supposed to open around 175-180F? Originally I was thinking it could be an overheating issue, but that seems unlikely. On that note, I pulled the cap off the radiator and am unable to see any fluid near the top of the fill neck. Does anyone have a best guess as to the location of the fill line? I don't want it to start bubbling out once I get this figured out.
Thank you in advance!
Dayton