Claas Dominator 128 VX 108 VX 98 VX 98 cVX 88 VX Operator’s Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD

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Claas Dominator 128 VX 108 VX 98 VX 98 cVX 88 VX Operator’s Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD

DESCRIPTION:

Claas Dominator 128 VX 108 VX 98 VX 98 cVX 88 VX Operator’s Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD

Introduction :

This book is intended to give the machine driver information on setting, using and servicing the CLAAS range of DOMINATOR 128 VX, DOMINATOR 108 VX, DOMINATOR 98 VX, DOMINATOR 98 cVX and DOMINATOR 88 VX combines. Texts and pictures apply, in general, to all combine models covered by this book, and the information given applies equally, except where reference is made to a particular model in captions to the pictures or in the main text.

• Operation and maintenance of important ancillary equipment is also covered by this manual. Please read the instructions which apply to the appropriate ancillary equipment on your combine.
• Provided you follow the advice on the care and servicing of your machine you will be rewarded with reliable and long service from your Combine Harvester. We recommend that you allow your authorized CLAAS Dealer to carry out the regular maintenance.
• Omissions of parts of the maintenance schedule or incorrect operation lead to a drop in performance and cost valuable time. By correct servicing and operation you can make full use of our sound experience and of the latest technical knowledge in Combine Harvesting with which your combine has been designed and thereby insure reliability of your Combine Harvester.

This Operator’s Book can be ordered from your CLAAS Dealer as well as the manuals listed below:

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Claas Dominator 128 VX 108 VX 98 VX 98 cVX 88 VX Operator’s Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD

Road traffic regulations 9
Important 10
Identification plate 11
Combine serial number 12
Engine serial number 12
Cutterbar identification plate 13
Identification plate of folding cutterbar 13
Maize picker head serial number 14
Multimaster 14
Serial number of
maize head stalk chopper 14
Straw chopper 14
Cab serial number 15
Safety rules 16
Safety decals with pictorials 19
1 Specifications
CLAAS DOMINATOR 128 VX / 108 VX 1 1
CLAAS DOMINATOR 98 VX / 98 cVX 1 7
CLAAS DOMINATOR 88 VX 1 14
Front Attachments – weights, dimensions 1 20
Safety features 1 21
Sectional view of combine 1 22
Description and function of the combine
2 Prior to operation
Before using the machine make
these checks and follow the instructions
Operator’s platform
Cab
Cab with ventilating system
Cab with fan and
compressor-type air conditioner
Cab with ventilating system
and heating
Demister System
Problem, cause or remedy –
Compressor-type air conditioner
Steering column
Vehicle information unit
Function of vehicle information unit
Operations display screen
Function of operations display
Switch console
Multi-function lever
Central terminal compartment
Plug-in type module CLAAS Autopilot
Grain tank discharge tube –
swinging out and in
Grain tank discharge engagement
and disengagement
Threshing mechanism
engagement / disengagement
Engaging and disengaging
the cutterbar drive
Positioning the cutterbar / maize
picker head for road travel 2 22
Adjusting the threshing drum speed 2 23
Adjusting the steering column position 2 23
Driver’s seat adjustment 2 23
Access ladders 2 24
Front ladder 2 24
Access and ladder extension 2 24
Rear ladder 2 27
Driving the combine 2 27
Engine speed turn switch
(DOMINATOR 128 VX) 2 28
Engine speed adjusting lever
(DOMINATOR 108 VX- 88 VX) 2 28
Starting the engine 2 28
Adjusting stiffness of
ground speed control lever 2 30
Gear ranges 2 30
Stopping the combine 2 31
Driving behaviour 2 31
Steering 2 31
Brakes 2 32
Stopping the engine 2 32
CLAAS Autopilot 2 33
Rear axle 2 35
Setting the adjustable rear axle 2 35
Changing the rear axle from
transport position to working position 2 35
CLAAS 4-Trac System 2 35
Towing a combine with driven rear axle 2 37
Cutterbar hydraulic cylinders 2 39
Attaching the cutterbar
hydraulic cylinders 2 39
Attaching the R/H cutterbar cylinder 2 40
Attaching a third cutterbar cylinder 2 40
Towing the combine 2 41
Forward 2 41
Backward 2 41
Safety lock 2 42
Fire extinguisher 2 42
Tilting the railing of the side walk 2 42
Wheel chock 2 43
Cab 2 43
Worklights (Optional equipment) 2 44
Battery isolating switch 2 45
3 Operation – cutterbar
Cutterbar 3 1
Dividers 3 1
Outer deflector 3 2
Inner deflector 3 2
Grain lifters 3 2
Removing the knife 3 3
Installing the knife 3 3
Adjusting the height of the knife head 3 4
Adjusting the knife clips 3 4
Spare knife 3 4
Knife drive 3 5
Cutterbar skids 3 5
Reel 3 6
Reel tines 3 6
Reel drive 3 6
Fore and aft reel adjustment
(mechanical) 3 7
Fore and aft reel adjustment
(hydraulic) 3 7
Reel variable speed drive 3 8
Main table auger 3 9
Adjust clearance to cutterbar trough 3 9
Adjusting position of auger fingers 3 9
Adjusting the stripper plates 3 10
Adjusting the strippers 3 10
Attaching the cutterbar 3 11
Machine with CLAAS Auto Contour 3 11
Levelling the coupling lug cylinders 3 12
Attaching the cutterbar 3 13
Machine without Auto Contour 3 13
Levelling the cutterbar 3 13
Attaching the universal drive shaft 3 14
Connecting hydraulic hoses 3 15
Connecting the cables 3 15
Installing the stands 3 16
Replacing knife sections in the field 3 17
4 Operation – basic machine
Feeder housing 4 1
Cutterbar reverse drive 4 2
CLAAS Auto Contour
Automatic cutting height control
and lateral levelling system 4 3
Cutterbar automatic pre-set height
(machines with Auto Contour) 4 4
Checking the setting of the
cutterbar floatation springs and
adjusting them as necessary 4 5
Checking the cutterbar floatation
springs and checking the feeder house
suspension for smooth movement 4 5
Setting the cutting height indicator 4 6
Cutterbar spring pressure indicator 4 7
Adjusting the cutterbar drop rate 4 7
Putting the CLAAS Auto
Contour System into operation 4 8
Operation with maize picker head 4 9
Programming the CLAAS
Auto Contour System 4 9
Setting chart for automatic
cutting height control 4 10
Putting the cutterbar automatic
pre-set height system into operation
(machines with Auto Contour) 4 11
5
CLAAS Contour System
(ground pressure control) 4 12
Setting the cutterbar ground pressure 4 13
Putting the CLAAS Contour System
into operation 4 13
CLAAS cutterbar pre-set height 4 15
Putting the cutterbar pre-set
height system into operation 4 15
Cutterbar adjusting range 4 15
Clearance height 4 16
Cutterbar adjusting range
without Auto Contour 4 16
Clearance height to
underside of cutterbar skid 4 16
Cutterbar clutch 4 17
Engaging and disengaging the cutterbar 4 17
Threshing mechanism 4 17
Stone trap 4 18
Engaging and disengaging
the threshing mechanism 4 18
Concave adjustment 4 19
Safety stop bolt for concave adjustment 4 20
Basic setting with various concaves 4 23
Basic rules for
concave-to-drum clearance settings 4 23
Threshing drum 4 23
Cleaning dirty threshing parts 4 24
Threshing drum speed 4 24
Adjusting the threshing drum speed 4 26
Threshing drum speed display 4 26
Threshing drum two-step
variable speed drive 4 26
Slow speed threshing drum kit
(Chain drive) 4 27
Disawning 4 28
Unslugging the threshing drum 4 29
Impeller 4 29
Deflector curtain 4 30
Straw walkers and cleaning 4 31
Straw walkers 4 31
Intensive separation system 4 31
Tensioning the V-belt 4 32
Cleaning the straw walkers 4 32
Straw walker risers 4 33
Warning signal 4 34
Sieve pan 4 34
Preparation floor 4 35
Cleaning fan 4 36
Electrical fan speed adjustment 4 36
Fan speed display 4 37
Adjusting the wind direction 4 37
Sieves 4 38
Adjusting the frogmouth sieves 4 38
Hillside riser plates
(Combines without 3-D cleaning system) 4 38
Lower sieve 4 39
6
Removing upper sieve 4 39
Installation of upper sieve 4 39
Removing lower sieve 4 39
Installing lower sieve 4 40
3-D cleaning system
(powered sideway thrust on top sieve) 4 40
Returns 4 41
Combine performance monitor 4 42
Adjusting monitor to crop type 4 43
Adjusting sensitivity of sensors 4 43
Grain delivery 4 44
Augers and auger troughs 4 45
Elevators 4 45
Adjusting tension of elevator chains 4 46
Grain tank 4 47
Grain tank covers 4 48
Unloading the tank 4 49
Rear ladder with safety switch 4 49
Grain tank discharge auger 4 50
Grain tank discharge –
engage and disengage 4 51
Clean-out door on grain
tank discharge tube 4 52
Drive to grain tank discharge augers 4 52
Shear bolt – grain tank discharge 4 53
Lateral auger drive 4 53
Grain tank fill indicator 4 53
Acoustic grain tank fill indicator 4 54
Straw chopper 4 54
Before using the straw chopper, check 4 55
Putting the straw chopper
into operation (use in straw) 4 55
Adjusting spreading width 4 56
Electric deflector adjustment 4 56
Adjusting the deflectors 4 56
Adjusting the length of cut 4 57
Adjusting cross knife 4 57
Putting the straw chopper
out of operation and changing
over to wind rowing straw 4 58
Hitching the cutterbar
trailer to the combine 4 59
CLAAS Chaff spreader 4 59
Setting the chaff spreader 4 59
Sieve chart 4 61
Suggested combine adjustments 4 62
Problem, cause or remedy 4 66
5 Maintenance –
basic machine, cutterbar
Important maintenance instructions 5 1
Maintenance schedule 5 4
Maintenance schedule 5 5
Lubricants chart 5 6
Lubricants chart 5 7
Hydraulic system 5 8
Adjusting the pump drive belt 5 8
Checking the oil level 5 9
Changing hydraulic oil 5 10
Drain hydraulic oil 5 10
Cleaning the screen filter 5 12
Replacing the paper filter 5 12
Hydrostatic ground drive system 5 12
Hydrostatic pump adjustment 5 14
Bleeding the reel cylinders 5 15
Bleeding the hydraulic cylinders
for cutterbar lateral levelling 5 16
Footbrakes / brake fluid 5 17
Gear shift control adjustment 5 17
Transmission and gearboxes 5 17
Change-speed transmission gearbox 5 18
Final drives 5 18
Planetary gears of rear
wheel drive system 5 19
CLAAS 4-Trac System 5 19
Knife drive casing 5 20
Threshing drum two-step
variable speed drive 5 20
Grain tank 5 21
Angle drive at the bottom end
of the grain tank discharge tube 5 21
Grain tank angle drive gearboxes 5 21
Changing variable speed belts 5 21
Removal and installation
of drum variable speed belt 5 21
Drum with intermediate drive assembly 5 21
Removal of power band belt 5 22
Installation of power band belt 5 22
Threshing drum without
intermediate drive assembly 5 23
Removal and installation
of the fan variable speed belt 5 24
Threshing mechanism drive adjustment 5 25
Drum drive adjustment 5 27
Threshing drum drive with
intermediate drive assembly 5 27
Cutterbar drive adjustment 5 28
Removing and installing the belt 5 28
Cutterbar drive adjustment 5 30
Removing and installing the belt 5 30
Adjusting belt-operated clutch
of grain discharge 5 32
Hydrostatic ground drive adjustment 5 34
Cab 5 37
Cleaning the filters 5 37
Compressor-type air conditioner 5 38
Tensioning the compressor drive belt 5 38
Cleaning the condenser 5 38
Checking refrigerant level 5 38
Replacing the filter receiver drier 5 39
Required refrigerant quantity 5 39
Maintenance work before the harvest 5 40
Engine speed 5 40
Checking the speed of
the straw walker shaft 5 40
Functions monitor 5 41
Setting the magnetic pick-ups 5 41
Fire extinguisher 5 41
Have fire extinguisher checked
for serviceable condition 5 41
Straw chopper 5 42
Changing the free-swinging knives 5 42
Changing the fixed stationary knives 5 43
Chopper drive adjustment 5 44
Removing intermediate drive
belt at intermediate drive 5 45
Winter storage instructions for combines 5 46
6 Maintenance – engine
Important maintenance instructions 6 1
Belts 6 1
Maintenance schedule 6 2
Lubricants chart 6 3
Engines 6 4
Door to engine compartment –
air intake trunking 6 6
Engine access door in grain tank 6 6
Access to the engine compartment
from the cab 6 7
Fuel feed system 6 8
Fuel tank 6 8
Fuel shut-off tap 6 8
Water separator / fuel prefilter 6 9
Fuel prefilter / water trap 6 10
Fuel prefilter 6 10
Fuel sediment bowl 6 11
Fuel filter 6 11
Bleeding the fuel system 6 13
Fuel prefilter with electrical fuel pump 6 14
Bleeding a fuel system with
electrical fuel pump fitted 6 14
Checking engine oil level 6 15
Engine oil change 6 15
Draining the old oil 6 15
Oil filter 6 16
Filling in engine oil 6 17
Tensioning V-belts 6 18
Tensioning the alternator belt 6 18
Tensioning alternator and fan V-belt 6 19
Cooling system 6 19
Coolant 6 19
Water drain plugs on the engine block 6 20
Water cooler 6 21
Filling the cooling system with coolant 6 22
Overpressure 6 22
Protection against corrosion 6 23
Warning notice 6 23
Cooling water temperature 6 24
Rotary radiator screen 6 25
Cleaning the rotary radiator screen 6 25
Folding up radiator chaff screen 6 25
Swinging up the oil cooler 6 26
Cleaning the oil cooler 6 26
Cleaning the water cooler 6 26
Dry-type air cleaner 6 27
Warning device 6 27
Cleaning the air cleaner intake screen 6 27
Cleaning the air cleaner 6 28
Cleaning the dry-type air cleaner
with dust extractor unit 6 28
Dry-type air cleaner with
safety filter cartridge 6 30
Battery 6 31
Alternator 6 32
Engine problems, cause or remedy 6 33
Engine winter storage 6 35
7 Lubrication chart

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