
Originally Posted by
essexpete
Usual check for oil and coolant in the right places.
Check to see if the handbrake works because it can be a PITA to sort. Drive through the high range gears up and down to check the syncros. You could do with loading the PTO to make sure that works under load.
Give the steering close inspection as the ram yoke is prone to wear and the axle pivot. Nice if you could jack up the front.
Are you familiar with the hydraulics? Push the outer lever right forward and down. The use the inner lever to check position control up and down. If an implement is fitted you can push the position control down and pull the draught control back to the point the implement just starts to lift. At that point it is actually possible to lift a light implement by and at the very rear and trigger the draught control to lift.
The very early model had the cab bolted direct to the transmission and were noisy. The later were on ISO mounts and a little more pleasant. The panel work can be really rough but generally the cab frame is robust.
Nearly forgot is the tractor fitted with 2 speed torque amplifier (lever on dash opposite the hand throttle). That unit can be suspect.
Edit just realised that you are asking about the 475. That should be a Perkins engine.