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Floyd County, Iowa | Looking at a Case IH JX series tractor. I know nothing about them. Good? Bad? Ugly?
Want to use for LIGHT loader work- no bales, forks, or digging. Mainly use loader for saving my back and moving snow. Other uses for tractor will be running augers, moving equipment in and out of sheds, 3 point mower, fenceline spraying. The prices of them in Tractorhouse seem lower than my "other color". Is there a reason or am I just used to looking at the price for green paint?
What to watch for? Stay away? Run away? Grab one?
Help would be appreciated.
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Morris, IL | We have a 2wd JX90 open station. We have had a lot of trouble with ours but everyone I talk to likes theirs so I think we might have a lemon. Great tractor for what your looking to do with it. Our 2wd is helpless on snow and cab would be nice is your going to be using it a lot in cold. |
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Southeast Florida | What was/is your problems with the JX90? They're pretty simple tractors. |
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sw North Dakota | Have a JX95 MFD with loader, bought new, have 1500 hrs. on it. Noisy cab, economy tractor, but well worth the price. No troubles with it, stack about 4000 bales a year with it. Works great in the hay yard, turns on a dime.
Edited by cowboyk 1/26/2011 22:10
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Morris, IL | 3 clutches, clutch release cables, oil leaks, trans. pressure problems, brake problems. It has been spilt 4 times all in 500 hours, most has been covered under warranty but not anymore. |
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modesto il | i have a jx 95 with loader it has been trobule free
very easy to run, quiet,shifts nice, very good on fuel |
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| relative had a JX 95. I think it was a 95 if they dont make a 95 it was a 90. Anyway it was a total POS. It had the 1000 shaft pto but if you used it on a heavy mower it would bend some plate and the the PTO would grind and not engage. The tractor is made in Turkey - this might explain it. I will say the dealer/CIH handled the situation and treated them right by trading into a 110 on a pretty fair deal, this is a different series of tractor, much higher quality.
IMO that JX series is designed and priced to compete with the other cheap import brands.
If you are truely going to use it for real light duty it will probably be ok. I kind of wonder why CIH would put thier name on such a low quality line of tractors, but I'm sure there is a market for light duty yard tractors that people want on the cheap side. This is a case where you get what you pay for. |
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| We have a JX95 open station front wheel assist, use on the backhoe, forklift, 12" auger, and mower. Been apretty much trouble free. It was made in Turkey, it is a simple tractor, not too much to go wrong.
John EIA |
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wc in | I had a new jx65 in 2005. Like others had said, many problems with the pto. Under 500 hours and the tractor was split several times, to no avail. The dealer I purchased it from, told me I bought a cheap tractor, what was I expecting from it. |
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Piedmont, NC | They had a few clutch issues the first year from what I am told. Other than that the tractor design is actually pretty sound. They are to compete with Kubota and Deeres India made tractor. I Know of 12 around me. One guy had a bunch of trouble first year, the rest are doing well. He must have got first year. They are easy on fuel.
Edited by GreenhouseGuy 1/26/2011 22:27
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Magnolia, KY | My local mechanic (who worked at the Case dealer before starting his own shop) says the "J" stands for junk. In his opinion, they are not made to handle the rigors of daily work on the farm.
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Flora IL | Run Away and get a kubota or deere.... yes...i said deere... lol
family member has one and not impressed
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nebraska | PTO clutches have always been a problem on the jx series. There is no return spring to pull the throw out bearing off of the clutch fingers when not in use. The bearing chatters against the clutch fingers wearing them down and throwing the clutch adjustment off. Then they start slipping and burn themselves out quickly. Been in the same situation several times. Less than 500 hrs and the tractors have been appart more than once. We started putting aftermarket springs on the clutch arms to pull the throw out bearing back when not in use and had very little troubles after that. Get familiar with the trans and pto clutch adjustment and you will do fine. Biggest thing to remember is not to let it start slipping or they burn out quick. They are a low cost tractor, but that just means corners were cut somewhere to keep the cost down. If you can be patient with them and keep everything maintained, you will get by fine. |
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Southeast Florida | If you look at one and then look at a Fiat, then show me the differance. |
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ND | I've got an uncle that we do alot of work with and he's had two of them bought new. He bought a JX75 open station that has been pretty been completely trouble free. A few year after he bought the 75, he purchased a JX95 with a cab. That tractor was a big lemon. I can't remember for sure what the complete list of problems was with it, but i know it was cold blooded and didnt start well. It also had several electrical gremlins and some pto troubles. At one time there was some electrical issue where it wouldn't start at all and I think they ended up doing a bunch of injector work. I thought the cab was pretty noisy and it used alot of oil. He held off getting it rebuilt until shortly before the warranty was up and then traded it off right away. |
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On the Delmarva | I have a pair of '05 JX75's. Both are open stations with MFD's so I can't comment on the cab. These two are my main field tractors for my ornamental grass business and from around the middle of march until around 1st of may, and then from after the first killing frost for about two weeks, these tractors are probaly the hardest worked of all my tractors. Both have done what I consider to be heavy PTO work (Rototiller, Modified Potatoe digger) and I can honestly say I have never had any issues with the PTO. I have had to rebuild #2's front end as I also have front mounted 3pt's and I have had some fairly hefty equipment out. The other issue I have had was on the rear three 3pt on one (and I don't remember which one it was), dropping for no reason that we could ever figure out. It just went away and hasn't bothered us since.
Phill |
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Flora IL | The damn PTO works in a kubota!!! |
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Dwight, ILL | Any problems with JX1100U series? Just bought a 2004 from Central ILL Ag last weekend. |
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Newfane NY | We have 8 of the JX-95 style tractors. They go from a Ford 6530 to the NH TD95D and JX-95. All mudder tractors and happy with them all.
They are European built so the PTO operates different than US tractors. When not in use the 540-N-1000 shift lever must be in N and the engage lever must be engaged. This takes all pressure off the PTO clutch. Each mudder gets from 300 to 500 hours per year with 20 different drivers. We have only put in ONE clutch and ONE hydraulic pump over 30,000 hours of total use. Very good on fuel, though not as good as the Deutz we have doing the same jobs. But a whole lot better than the 2955's and 6400's Deeres that we use.
As far as I can see all of ours are Fiats built in Italy. They are built a lot better than the SAME's we use to have.
They are not cheap built tractors, they are old school built with NO electronics.
I will buy more if and when we need more.
John |
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South Africa | Have 2 JX95's nice simple little tractors. This is still basically the same tractor as the 1980's Fiat 980 tractor (still have a 1980 model running every day) only changed from a 6cyl to a 4cyl turbo engine and a few changes to modernise it. Not a high spec tractor but very simple and basic, almost impossible to kill... |
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Floyd County, Iowa | Thanks for all the replies. |
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| Was curious what the after market springs are ? We are just about to do a clutch and i would like to fix it right.
thanks,adam |
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Any cons with Case IH JX series tractors?
