I recently bought a used case 580k. It was from a local fella down the road from me. Only leak was a steering cylinder (seal), no welds or cracks, all glass was good, tires worn about 60% left, no busted buckets or anything like that, all greased, guy took pretty good care of it. Used it in a his sand pit and for crushing and loading cars.
Anyhow I bought it, brought it home and haven't used too much as winter came on. I used it 3 times so far for snowplowing when my plowtruck was down and during this time I noticed the 3rd gear range was weak in my opinion. Pushing snow in second is easy and fourth isn't possible. I thought pushing snow in 3rd would be alright but when in third I stand on the fuel pedal and it takes a bit of time to get moving and forget about going up a slight grade in 3rd.
I checked the transaxle fluid from in the cab and the fluid looks/smells/level is good.
Is there something else I can check on this rig? It's actually a pretty handy machine. Should have got one years ago! lol
