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INTRODUCTION
Sect.4 - Pre-delivery inspections & maintenance
4-1 General information
To ensure that the tractor is regularly serviced during
the 12 month warranty period, the Massey Ferguson
dealer must carry out maintenance work after 50 and
250 hours service.
These operations will ensure your tractor functions
with utmost efficiency throughout the warranty period
and that it gives reliable service.
4-2 Pre-delivery inspection
The following operations must be carried out both by
the agent before delivering to the Dealer and by the
Dealer before delivering to the customer or operator:
1 General installation
- Clean the lower surface of the batteries and spread
the terminals with vaseline.
- Charge the battery if necessary.
- Check all battery connections. Make sure that all
leads, tubes and indicator lights are well fixed.
- Check and top up the oil in the engine and tran-
smission housings.
- Lubricate all parts requiring grease.
- Check the tension of the belts (alternator, fan, ser-
vo-control pump and air-conditioning compressor)
and adjust if necessary.
- Flush out the cooling circuit and fill it with fresh
water (unless it contains antifreeze).
- Make sure that the tank contains sufficient fuel and
that this is the right type.
- Make sure that the nuts and bolts that fix the cylin-
der head have been driven to the right torque.
Make sure that the fixing nuts and bolts on the
intake and exhaust manifolds are tight.
- Check and adjust the tappet play and visually ins-
pect the valve springs.
- Check the injectors. Bleed the fuel circuit and ti-
ghten all the fuel pipe unions.
- Make sure that the engine air filtering pipes are
well fixed.
- Check the adjustment of the engine articulations,
making sure that they operate smoothly.
- Start the engine.
- Make sure that the instruments, controls and indi-
cator lights operate correctly.
- Check the engine rate on the rev counter using
the pedal and hand accelerator.
- Hitch a towed implement and make sure that the
hydraulic accessories of the tractor operate cor-
rectly.
- Check and regulate the tyre pressure (on the road
or ground).
- Make sure that all nuts, bolts, centering pins, pipe
unions and fastening devices are correctly fixed.
- Make sure that there are no leaks from the pipes.
- Make sure that the lights are correctly positioned.
- Test the tractor on the road, making sure that the
brakes, controls and accessories operate correctly.
2. Electronic systems
- Make sure that the electronic lift operates correctly.
3. Driving torques
- Check the driving torques of the bolts or nuts that
fix the various chassis components:
- Front axle/Engine
- Engine/Gearbox
- Gearbox/Rear axle
- Axle shaft housings/Rear axle- Check the driving
torque of the nuts or bolts that fix the wheels and
wheel plates.
