[AT] Fw: 350u power steering

[Ralph Goff]

I too searched the CIH parts online and found no listing for the W4 tractor. 
Interestingly they do have the Farmall M and the model 450 Farmall tractors 
which are both older and newer than the W4 listed in the catalogue.

Ralph in Sask.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Fw: 350u power steering


> Mike, my guess is that Case/IH started from scratch with their current 
> on-line parts lookup. I went in last night and did a bunch of searching 
> for parts on my 1120 and found that the whole file is PDF format with 
> every page having three scrollable windows and interactive forms.  Most of 
> the on-line material was in a completely different format (different 
> drawings) from the paper manuals for this tractor.  This is the style of 
> parts lookup that was "coming on" when I worked for a dealer seven years 
> ago.  If they are continuing the pattern I am used to working with, they 
> probably won't include ALL the models of tractors and equipment in the 
> system.  The local dealership has kept all the old paper manuals "under 
> the desk" and refers back to them when the new system fails to show things 
> that customers have questions about.
>
> I went into the system looking for a W-4 and it shows that no such model 
> exists.  I did not try other characters in the search string to see if 
> they stored it by some other identification, but the old paper system may 
> be the only way things will show up on that tractor.