Combines Case IH MX

If you think a red one is rough you need to try out a Deere. If it is really rough then you have an issue, i.e. Calibration, software, solenoid_valve sticking. Remeber the range shifts (6_7 and 12_13) will always be rougher no matter what you do. Also when the MX 210-285 were released Case IH went to Pulse with Modulation and the shift improved a great deal.

The 19 speed transmission is optional. 18 speed is still standard. The 19th gear is just an option for high road speed at low rpm.

It seems evident that CVT and IVT transmissions as first introduced via Fendt _ AGCO, now standard on many high end John Deere 8030 series will rapidly displace the powershift tranny in the future, for the very reasons mentioned above. Smoother shifting, less spike torque loads, fewer diffential, axle, final drive failures. Probably less expensive to manufacture than the powershift conglomeration of clutch packs, brake packs, and planentaries. Right now the manufacturer are getting a premium for IVT_CVT for the added fuel efficiency and comfortable _ smooth shifting.

From some of the units in my area the IVT_CVT type transmissions seem to work OK in lighter high cyclical type loads (eg:baling_road work). There appears to be issues in high steady type loads though (eg:fall tillage, wet conditions) with reliability and efficiency. Do any owners_operators have any comments on this from good, bad and anything in between. Especially if you have owned_driven a full powershift before your IVT_CVT unit.I know they are smooth as I have driven at farm show demo plots, I would like to hear some REAl life experiences working with them, no desktop pilots please. Sorry, Mr Gorden I know this is a combine forum but I have been wanting to ask this for sometime from the members of this forum as I feel I would get some honest replies.

We put 230hrs on 7920IVT Deere this fall and have since traded it for a new MX. Our experince is it takes a while to get use to. For example backing up to hook up is a real chalange if you touch the brake at all to get hitch square tractor stops, if you ride the brake a little so you dont back over sombody behind you, tractor stops. Turning on end of feild if you touch the brake to turn shorter tractor stops. At first I really liked the transmission but the more I drove it the less I thought of it. I did like the way it would maintain 26mph and the engine rpms would drop down to 1200. But I guess the new magnums in 19th gear will do the same. I guess I am concearned how they will do in some heavy tillage. Ours just ran spreaders and choppers.Of the 4 of us that ran it my wife liked it and the rest of us wanted to get rid of it. So she got out voted! lOl Sorry Marv not a lot to talk on combines now and if we dont keep this thread going a lot of people will leave this site and when we need information there will be nobody left.

CORNKING, I agree. We have a 7920 until November when the lease is up and I won't get another either. We also have a 926 Fendt. I know its a different league of tractor power, but the Fendt transmission is so much better than the Deere's. I'm like you, the more I drove it the less I liked it. We had it on the grain cart this past fall and its a massive step down from a powershift tractor and the Fendt too. I haven't been around the MXM at all, but I do like the look of it. Whats it run for an engineIJ Is it a Cummins or whatIJ

Its a Ford designed 7.5l Genesis engine.

I did drive an MXM175 and have logged some hrs in 7110 magnums and the MXM175 performed very well in comparison. The MXM uses the 7.5l engine with an electronic governor and has a boost in 16th gear when needed as well as when the pto is engaged in field gears. I really liked the electronic remotes as the timers were easy to set and the auto shift transmission worked well too. I have heard that the earlier units have had some issues, as a thread farther up has said referring to the MXM190. Thanks for your comments as they are running parallel to what I am hearing locally on the 7920's

We traded off a MXM175 and MXM130 for a 7920IVT and 7320IVT. CORNKING's 7920 does not operate like ours. When turning at the end of the field if you only touch 1 brake it well never stop(have to touch both brakes to activate the auto cluthing)We have really enjoyed this machine tading up 145hp to 170hp dyno around 188hp.Hardest work it did was run a 30' field cultivator.It pulls a 15' jd1560 notill drill and bales about 3000 acres. hauls a manure tank. so no real test for the tranny. The idiot gauge on dash says it uses up to 11.8 gallons_hour max but keeping track of fuel tells us in planting it uses 4.5 us gal_hour. compared to the mxm175 @ just under 6.Both brands of tractors ride very well they had front suspension and cab suspension the jd proactive seat is excellent.nothing like pulling up to a stop sign and just throttleing down maybe put foot on brake then accelerating away to 26.5 mph it will idle back to 1470 rpm and idiot gauage say 3.8 gal_hour The headland management on the MXM was a joke compared to the JD . The JD slows the tranny down then lifts the marker then lifts the drill then turns the 4wd off ( for sharper turns) with the flick of a switch then hit it again to reverse the operations.I can't ever see us going back to a gear and clutch tranny.We only have 700 hours on it and who knows if this tranny well lastIJIJ For us if it does stand up it the greatest feature since MFD.We owned early MXM they were nice tactors but the hydraulics were ancient compared to JD, Have to agree with the post that said the 7920 was not the easiest to get in or out of.When hooking up a wagon (this is not reccommended it is something I did once buy mistake haha)I backed 1' past the tounge of the wagon then put the tranny in the forward @164'_hour mode then simply drop pin in and saftey clip when lined up. You can be back in tractor before the linkage of the wagon has tighten up lol.WE had to put 2 injection pumps on the 175 they fixed that problem now 23 improvement the fist year then more last year. the front end had 4 failures on the MXM135 loader tractor. JD salesmen thought that jd had the same frontend as case. We always had caseIH but I didn't like the RED Fords we got when purchasing MXMs. So we tried the JD. I think we all know that there are good ones and bad ones whether it is Ford Chev Case or JD.I might very well drive case tractors again I hope it is with IVT no matter what brand it is. just my 2 cents

Yeah my neighbor has a mx and then a deere both around the same year and i noticed a big difference