[AJD] one good deal left at John Deere Parts counter

John Boehm rustyacres at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 15 20:09:15 PDT 2004


If anyone needs clutch bolts, dogs, toggles, etc., I
have good used parts for JD A, B, H, and D. Contact me
offlist for more info.

John Boehm
Woodland, CA
Visit my web site at http://vintagetractors.com

--- "Merle W. Johnson" <wjohnson at bigriver.net> wrote:
> "A" clutch bolts were priced to me at 49.50 plus tax
> and shipping on
> special order.  Just the threads were bad on my
> bolts so I took them to my
> machinist buddy, had them turned down and cut 1/2-20
> threads and
> reinstalled.  Work fine.
> Merle
> 
> Steve Treimer wrote:
> 
> > Greg, don't listen!
> > The clutch on my 820 has needed some attention,
> I've always been
> > worried, so I committed myself to installing as
> many new parts as I
> > could.  After the Gathering of the Green, Mike
> Williams gave a very
> > depressing saga of how clutch parts have
> skyrocketed.  And he's right,
> > I wanted to put new dogs and toggles in that
> clutch 3 years ago and
> > priced them, then even last year the prices were
> over 200% higher!
> > Well, Mike said that clutch bolt prices have gone
> out-of-site, so I
> > looked them up and they only came up on
> jdpartsonline for $3.83 each,
> > so I ordered 3 immediately.  Well, went to pick
> them up and the guy at
> > the parts counter gave me a song and dance about
> how they were priced
> > at $63 each in his computer.  No sale.  Wouldn't
> listen to how I was
> > quoted a price on jdpartsonline, he just said,
> "Well, we don't have
> > access to that system"...... uh huh.
> > So a month later I had to order some more parts
> and those bolts were
> > still in my cart.  So what the hey, they still
> showed the same price,
> > so I ordered them again.  Only THIS time, I hit
> the 'shift+print
> > screen' buttons and printed the screen capture out
> in irfanview so that
> > I had some proof when I returned to pick up my
> stuff.  Sure enough, the
> > parts guys says something like "You're the one
> that ordered those
> > expensive bolts....."  and I say, "well they sure
> weren't supposed to
> > be" as he brings them out.  He says "they're
> clutch bolts right?"  I
> > said "Yes, but my print out shows them at $3.83"
> and he brings them up
> > on his terminal and sure enough the list showed
> $63 but the net column
> > said $3.83.  I don't know if this was before or
> after he manually
> > adjusted the entry though, but he just looked at
> me and said "well, I
> > guess you're right" and smiled as he handed over
> the bag.
> > I was fully impressed with his integrity upon
> leaving the store
> > (Strackbein's in Tipton, IA).
> > Just thought I'd share the luck if any of you are
> in the need.
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
> > __________________________________
> > Do you Yahoo!?
> > Friends.  Fun.  Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger.
> > http://messenger.yahoo.com/
> > _______________________________________________
> > Antique-johndeere mailing list
> >
>
http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/antique-johndeere
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Antique-johndeere mailing list
>
http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/antique-johndeere
> 




More information about the AT mailing list