[AT] Clutch parts for antique tractors

[CRAWLER HEAVEN]

Two Major clutch Manufactures were sold this year to an American company,BUT
they want to sell only new units no more rebuilts so they have raised the
prices or make the parts hard to get OH and buy the way the parent Company
is 49% owned by John Deere!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Brians" <gbrians at hollinet.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 1:12 AM
Subject: [AT] Clutch parts for antique tractors


> Friends, on Friday I went into the friendly clutch shopover in Salinas for
> parts for one of our Oliver 77s (the WFE Super 77 Diesel.) I had an
> interesting conversation with the proprietor. He cannot get the parts for
> rebuilding most clutch discs, pressure plates and related items any more!
He
> can sell the pre-made ones, but the suppliers have moved their factories
to
> Mexico or elsewhere and will not sell parts in less than HUGE quantities
on
> the few who do sell the parts still. Fortunately the new clutch disc and
> throwout bearing I needed he had in stock, but that still was rather
> dismaying. Is this the case nationwide????
>         Grant Brians
>         Hollister, California
>
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