John deere bearing pricing?

[tractordanp]

So doing some work on my 37 model A my magnito needed a new bearing I called john deere dealer and price was $137 for a bearing measuring 35 mm od 15 mm Id and 9 mm wide yes $137 I bought the bearing from bearings direct it cost about $15 including shipping
Do you think the john deere bearing is that much better?

 

[D-]

No

 

[GreenBlood]

no, john deere tells me they have a reason for charging terrible prices for old parts.

 

[Ray]

That little plastic fuse holder that fits into the dash on john deere tractors is 130 bucks from JD or a couple bucks at any fleemarket.

 

[Mike Aylward]

When Deere (or most any other manufacturer) charges that kind of price for an item it's about certain it is ready to soon become no longer available (NLA). These parts are slow moving and eventually end up scrapped or otherwise disposed of. Once they are, the company writes off the last retail price off their taxes as a loss. In other words, these parts are worth "more dead than alive". I know Deere does this and I would be pretty sure most others do as well. Mike

 

[MSD]

I bought 2 camshaft bearings for a G from John Deere for $14 and some change for each one. Same bearing from 3 different bearing places here in town was $23 and some change.

 

[FBH44]

One thing I do, if I find a good price on parts for old tractors, is I buy several of them. Time"s a comin", won"t be any more, and you"ll be real glad you got a parts shelf full.

 

[Machinery-Man]

When the box store John Deere Dealers aren"t allowed to park a used tractor at the front of their locations, I can assure you the last thing in their mind is trying to locate a bearing for what they see is a by gone tractor.

 

[leon]

Why TRACTORDANP's John Deere Dealer might be charging $137 for what appears to be a $15 bearing elsewhere I can't explain, but I worked for Deere & Co. for some 33 years, sometimes in the engine parts area, and never heard of the technique of "cheating" the IRS as you suggest. Don't you suppose that with all the capability the IRS demonstrates these days that they, the IRS, would check into the pricing history of parts before the tax loss was calculated?

For some reason this issue grabbed my interest and I searched the Deere parts site and found that the old original part numbers for the cone(JD7656R), balls & retainer(JD7657R) and cup(JD7655R) are no longer available. However, with the bearing specifications TRACTORDANP gives, using the parts specification search on the Deere parts web site I come up with an AL28037 as probably being the right bearing. ID and OD are the same as TRACTORDANP indicates but the bearing I found has a width of 8.936mm instead of 9 mm. Using the "where used" search capability of the Deere parts site, I find lots of recent Dubuque products, as well as some others, use the AL27038 bearing, but the Model "A" tractor isn't listed. That's probably because the information on the old "A"tractors is available in PDF format and is not in the parts site's searchable data base. Anyway, the Deere web site lists the price of the AL28037 bearing as $11.99. I don't know, but heard lately that local John Deere Dealers are now allowed to set their own prices on parts and don't necessarily have to go by the prices shown on the Deere web site. Could that possibly explain what's going on here?

 

[Mike M]

Well you did the right thing.

I always checked with Dealer first and then try shopping around.

Those mags just use a common bearing found really cheap at alt. shops.

 

[Mike Aylward]

Leon, I did not infer that this was "cheating". It is a legal and often used mechanism used by many companies. I was told this by a John Deere parts expediter years ago when I was a parts manager and we called to complain about the price of a certain part (much like is being done here). When a part is scrapped due to low demand a company is allowed to write off the loss at the last listed retail price, I was told. All I can go by is what I was told by Deere. Mike

 

[Bob]

This doesn't QUITE add up...



1. According to the jdparts consumer site:
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2. X5521 is a WICO part # for a "group" (an "assembly" of a bearing and the flange/holder it's mounted in}. (Key #19.)

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So, I DOUBT if "Mother DEERE" had anything to do with this, the dealer parts guy was ambitious enough to search out an obsolete part for you, either NOS, or from a mag parts dealer, then obtained it and charged you accordingly.

 

[tractordanp]

When I called dealer and gave him the number I could hear him typing and he said yup it's right here can have in two days so not sure if it came right up with a replacement number or if he just wanted to lie to me

Yeah accordingly took me about 3 mins to find it on bearings direct that why I kept the other $122 for my hard work looking