good place to buy john deere parts?

[blue83ranger]

Does anyone know of any parts place that sells john deere parts cheap? I've been watching ebay for a very long time but nothing comes up. What i have is a 1939 B, as of now I'm looking for fanshaft or governor bearings (they're the same) best i've found is $50 each and there are 4 of them. and i found out 1930's-'40's dodges and chevy's used them as wheel bearings. I need other stuff too but if anyone knows of a place i'll just look them up myself. any suggestions?

 

[Grey_04]

we have a small place locally here in pa called Erie bearings, they handle just about any bearing you would ever want. may try the local phone book and see if you have something similar were your at???

 

[blue83ranger]

thanks for the idea.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

You can go to John Deere's website and download the manual for your B in PDF.

From there you would have both the number on the bearing to cross and the JD number in the book. John Deere didn't make the bearings, they should have a number from who did. A parts store should be able to cross them pretty easily.

It is amazing what JD still makes for the older stuff, and usually bearings are priced very competitivly with a parts store... and they are really good bearings.

Go here to look up your tractor, on all of my computers the older stuff in PDF loads slow off of the internet, so go ahead and save it to your computer once it comes up for future referance. It will open as a white box at first, give it time and it will come up. I have a flash drive just for this at work, my own little service manual shelf in my pocket. For looking up your own stuff you can't beat it.

http://jdpc.deere.com/jdpc/servlet/...vlets.TopNavServlet?irand=2674278012977505504

Type your number in here to see if it subs up to a newer number. If you make a free account you can see pricing, availabilty at your local dealer and usually a detailed discription. Also above where you enter the number you can hit "non JD part number" and it will sub it to a JD part number if does. They were pretty unoriginal back then and a lot of different company's parts like bearings and seals sub around across brands. Usually a good guy at a parts store can sub to their number from a JD number.

https://jdparts.deere.com/servlet/com.deere.u90.jdparts.view.publicservlets.HomeUnsigned

I am showing a JD7656 for the inner race (with the rollers and retainers as a seperate part as well as the outer race) which subs up to a JD7654 as a complete bearing and replaces the three seperate parts of the orignal. That lists from JD for $51.00. My local dealer doesn't have them but a satelite store does, so I could have them by noon tomorrow. The parts book only shows 2 required for the fanshaft itself.

If you don't have anything to go by, get a IT manual at least to help you set it back up after you have it all apart.


I have a '46 B, pretty much the same as your '39, good little beasts.

 

[racsan]

we have a 5? "A". most parts are still dealer available. the bad news is parts from 'deere are pricy, you'd think they were gold plated. i do like the I&T manual for repair reference material, its too bad you cant get something that good for vehicles these days, the haynes book isnt much help and they are now $25.00

 

[crusin93]

Go to www.timken.com. If you cant find the bearing there you may be forced to buy the expensive ones. Keep in mind you will need accurate measurements(.0010) of the old bearings to reference new ones. They don't have a JD section
This may be more user friendly http://timken.dirxion.com/WebProject.asp?BookCode=tmk09flx&from=2
Good luck!

 

[Jason]

Acme bearing In Buffalo. They are gods among parts men.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I did some checking of our major aftermarket companies during break.

TISCO has them listed for $59 and some change, backordered

A&I doesn't even show them.

I did a quick MSN search with the current number and found this. BTW Yesterday's Tractors is like the TRS of the tractor world... regardless of brand.

http://www.ytmag.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=jd&th=366925

 

[blue83ranger]

We priced the bearings at o'reily's and they could get them but there around $50 as well. We have an IT manual for it. and the orginal bearings were made by new departure. If the only parts i needed were the bearings i would just buy them but I need other stuff as well. here's a list of what i know i need. and i have all the John Deere part numbers from the manual. a fan bearing spacer, (i'm converting the fan from the rubber mounted to the non rubber one, we had an A's rubber mounted fan come lose and go into the radiator) a fan drive disc, fan friction washer, a governor overhaul gasket set, and the orginal fan shaft and governor gears are junk and we have another set from a B we have for parts but they're pretty rusty, i might try to clean them up the best i can and see how bad they are. I'll check all the sites listed and see what i can find. thanks for the links.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Depending on how your used gears come out you might try getting a whole different assembly from a salvage yard.

For fixing what you have, aside from the bearings, shaft and gears I can't see there being to much money in the gasket set, spacer and friction disc.

 

[Mac]

We used to be able to get most of the parts for our "B" at
http://www.acmccartney.com/sales.htm
Dave

 

[blue83ranger]

I haven't had time to check out all the links till now. and I looked up all the part numbers on the john deere site and just one part isn't available anymore. and my dad gets "the green magazine" so i did here about the new tapered bearing replacement but there isn't one for the B yet but when there is it's still $60ish a piece. and my dad was going past a napa and he asked them to cross reference the old bearing and the only thing they found was the $52 one. I guess i'll investigate how that guy got the bearing for $25. thanks again for the help.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Keep us posted on what you find.

I just went thru the rear end on mine (axle bearings, seals, and felts), I imagine the day is coming when it needs the fanshaft looked at too.