SteveUSNY
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I bought a Case 480 at an auction that has water in the engine oil last fall. Can't wait for warmer weather to start working on it.http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=462875&d=1459280083&thumb=1&stc=1
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Ed of all trades
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Hi Steve, Welcome to TBN. Hope you enjoy your new toy as much as I wood. Ed
Wagtail
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G'day Mate and welcome to TBN from Downunder.
Enjoy the site.
Enjoy the site.
davesl708
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Hi welcome.
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Welcome to the forum. :welcome:
Congrats on your Case!
Congrats on your Case!
oldballs
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Hi Steve, I hope you have some really big wrenches.:laughing:
crackerjack222
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I have a Ford 7000 that had water in the engine oil. I thought it was going to be a bad head gasket but when I took the head off the gasket looked good. Then I noticed a pinhole rust spot in one of the freeze plugs in the head. I took the head to an engine machine shop and told them to make the head right, replace anything that looked suspicious. They said the valves and seats looked good and only replaced the freeze plugs. Cost= $35.
I also have a JD 310G. I have found so many uses for that machine at the ranch I use it almost every week. In the last two weeks I have used it to clear off an old fence, fill in some pot-holes in a road, dump some rip-rap in a ditch that was washing out, dig out some mesquite stumps around a tank (pond to you northerners) put some bull-rock in the spill-way for that tank, and am now digging a ditch between my shop and a shed so I can run some power, water and air lines to the shed. Also used it to drag some pipe out of a field for that project.
I am sure you will find many uses for your 480.
I also have a JD 310G. I have found so many uses for that machine at the ranch I use it almost every week. In the last two weeks I have used it to clear off an old fence, fill in some pot-holes in a road, dump some rip-rap in a ditch that was washing out, dig out some mesquite stumps around a tank (pond to you northerners) put some bull-rock in the spill-way for that tank, and am now digging a ditch between my shop and a shed so I can run some power, water and air lines to the shed. Also used it to drag some pipe out of a field for that project.
I am sure you will find many uses for your 480.
mguitas
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Thank you all. Crackerjack222, I would p my pants if my freeze plug was at fault. I bought the 480 at an auction for $4100 and when my wife told me the final cost was $5000 I almost had a brick. I forgot about the 10% buyers premium and then there was 8% sales tax...........OUCH! I think I am still ahead of the game and hope to stay there. I also have a IH 3414 backhoe that I will sell. I know exactly what you are talking about with uses for the hoe. I transplanted my wife's rose bush with it. Forgot how to use a shovel.
