Calling Case Nutty 1660 on Case 1570

A good friend of mine bought a new Case 1570 in the late 1970s. He had nothing but troubles out of the tractor. Mainly transmission and hydraulic issues. He is a careful operator too. He had such a bad luck with it he only kept it a few years and switched to JD after that. His stuff is pretty cream puff today when it is traded or sold.

Another fellow just a few miles away from me bought a Case 1370 new and is still running it yet today. He never has had any trouble out of it.

I looked it up and they seem like much the same tractor. Engine is the same 504 and the transmission looks the same in my service books.

Did Case just push the power a little too much on the 1570 or did my friend just get a "lemon"????

I will say this. The 504 Case motor seems to be a great motor. There are a lot of them around and rarely see much engine trouble out of them. It is usually transmission or torque limiter issues that I see needing repair.

The 1175 seems to just about never need any repairs to the drive line. There are several around here being used on tub grinders and feeder wagons. I know of one that had over 20,000 hours and the engine is still the original.

the 1570 trans held as well as the 1370's did, but just a couple things can really mess up the works and it may not have been any fault of your friends at least intentionally, on the PS of that style to make them live a long life it was very important to shift them manually down and not just step on the clutch, as this will cause them to shift three time at once and while doing that it has the weight/momentum of the rolling tractor slamming the clutch packs, and can do severe damage after a time of repeating this. I have seen them tore up and then put back together wrong and or not fixed completely and or debris left in the system, this can cause one or more of the pilot spools to stick and basically having the PS in two or more gears at once, if this happens it will do major damage fast, I hate to say but there were dealers that really did not have the proper trained staff to do repairs correctly and hence the unit would fail again, I do not know if this is what happened to your friend it is just what I have seen over the years, sorry your friend had troubles if we had sold it we would have done our best to have kept him, glad he is having good luck now as no farmer needs unnecessary repairs ever
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Thanks for the information!!!

I have a fellow that I used to trade a lot of equipment with that ran a Case dealership for years until CIH came about.

His top mechanic told me to run the 70 series tractor transmissions 5 gallon over the full mark. He says that was one of the changes between the them and the 90 series. He always claimed that help them hold up better. Have you heard of that???

we always did that on the "30" series as well, and yes if they have a loader you want to keep them over full, 5 gallons would be about right for sure
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