Case 1030

My experience with Case is that the 30 series is that you cannot beat the engine it is great. The trans is an eight speed called a caseomatic which is kinda cool, basicaly it is a high low range with a 4 speed trans. The rear end it really tough. If you dont run it out of oil or anything like that it will last for ever. The only problem I know of is once in a while you have to pull the hydrolic pump off the back of the tracotr and clean the oil strainer. I have never seen one without a 3 point hitch. I would say the biggest problem was brakes. They had a dry manual brake and with heavy field use the brake disc would glaze over and the brakes did not work very very well if at all. I think that if you want a toy to play with you would be very satisfied with it and for $2200 I would pay that for it. Hope it helps.

The pto problems with the 70 series were caused by the way the engineers designed the oil feed for the transmission, pto, brakes and steering. Using a 70 series to power high power moving pto equipement would try anyones patience. Pushing the clutch pedal or sometimes using the power shift would cause a pulse as the transmission control valve diverted oil and make the pto drop for an instant. You wouldn't see it but you could feel it and most likly any shear pins in you chopper, sheller, combine ... would too. I've dealt with many irate farmers on service calls over this problem and there was never a good fix.

I have had some people tell me on here that they would could rebuild a Case powershift for $3000 or so, but they are always 700 miles (or more) from me. Dealer priced me $7500 for a powershift rebuild and $5000 for rebuilding the PTO, and nobody else I could find would touch it. I wound up scrapping the tractor (2090). Only gave $8000 for the tractor and I'd put 2000 hours on it, got $2500 for salvage. Not my best deal, but not my worst either.

At $2200 it went for scrap/salvage price.

All totaled he had $15 grand in a $5000 tractor in 72 hours. That's the main reason he and I sold all our Case stuff. Cost too much to get it worked on. Seems like you can buy it cheap compaired to other brands, we went blue and it cost us a 1/3 more for smaller tractors (went from 100 hp units to 85). Been blue 5 years now and repair bills and fuel costs down by over half.