IH site

[300guy]

I emailed IH and received a reply. They said they have some issues with the site and are working make it a better site for their customers??????? Not sure what that means!! I was told it I needed help finding the correct part, I should contact my local dealer. If the site doesn't work, how are they going to help????????

 

[Charlie M]

They will probably pull out a manual if the guy working there knows where they are.

 

[F-Dean]

Go to your local dealer and go to the oldest guy at the parts counter. He will probably know where the old manuals are and will be able to help you.

 

[Donald in MN]

i have a high school friend that is a parts manager at a local IH dealership. he told me that they are still on the old site and wont be switching until October.

 

[Wicksfield]

I contacted CaseIH as well and received a favorable response. They are reconsidering adding the NLA part numbers back into the website parts catalogs. I let them know nicely that this was a disservice to their long term JICase and IH customers.

 

[NY 986]

Nearly all dealerships regardless of brand pulled the old books when the computer went in at the directive from corporate. I've gone into NH, JD, and CIH dealerships and have gotten told that. If I could have seen the future back in the 1980's I would have bought some dealer's reference books when dealers were going out of business by the dozen.

 

[Jim Naden]

(quoted from post at 09:52:29 08/23/20) Nearly all dealerships regardless of brand pulled the old books when the computer went in at the directive from corporate. I've gone into NH, JD, and CIH dealerships and have gotten told that. If I could have seen the future back in the 1980's I would have bought some dealer's reference books when dealers were going out of business by the dozen.

I worked in the last CIH company store to exist. Even we never got rid of the paper parts books, or the old paper service bulletins as a lot of those have not nor will the ever be made available online. Not everybody that work(ed) in those stores are mindless idiots that do everything that corporate wants them to do.

 

[DR. EVIL]

My Cousin bought ALL the parts books at our home-town IH dealership's "Going out of business auction" in about 1970-'72. And as he told me, the absolute BEST feature of buying those manuals were the hand written notes on the margins of many many pages with the part numbers of other newer or older parts that would substitute. Many manuals for short line equipment too, and IH equipment back decades including milking equipment, refrigerators & freezers, even light line pickups. That dealer was my favorite Go-To dealer, parts man who made all the notes had two daughters, oldest was in my grade in school, we had many classes together. He always knew who I was when I went in, was always curious what I was working on. When I put the tach & hourmeter on my Super H I figured the distributor drive gearbox that drove the cable would be the most expensive part, but he sold me the used one he had been saving to put a tach/hour meter on his own H. When I went in to get a new temp gauge for the SH we just got he didn't even look in the book, just took a step back reached up into the parts shelves without even looking and picked up the gauge, set it on the counter, and said " This is a universal gauge, fits all IH, the cable is longer than you need, just tie it in a coil under the hood, and it's calibrated in degrees, not cold, run, hot which means nothing." Dad had his favorite IH dealer in his old home town 8 miles away, I had mine in the town I went to school in. There were actually two IH dealers for a year or two. Even the new IH dealer couldn't survive the 70's & '80's.