OEM vs Aftermarket parts

What do you guys consider "safe" to use in the way of aftermarket products for your N and what would you avoid like the plague and go OEM?

Just guessing here but for an N, even if
you go to a CNH dealer you will find mostly
aftermarket parts.
Probably need to get up into the mid 1960s
and newer tractors before you find much OEM
parts support.

I guess what I should have said was OEM [u:594c5e5152]used[/u:594c5e5152] parts vs new aftermarket

Get OEM starters and gennys rebuilt rather than buying Chi-Com.

Ignitions parts can't get new OEM, but there is good stuff, and there is junk that don't even fit right.

ALL PARTS MADE TODAY ARE AFTERMARKET. OEM means Original Equipment Manufacturer and they do not exist now. Even when FORD was still in business, parts were always made and supplied by outside vendors. You just need to do your homework and find the best suppliers as many are just Cheena made cloned junkers. OEM is a general term. When they built the FORD (others too) most components were supplied from outside vendors, under contract. FORD did the engineering and designs but suppliers were the actual manufacturers. Parts like engine blocks and cast items were mostly made at the Rouge but on the line your oil filter (FRAM), carbs, distributors, GEN, VR (AUTOLITE), and all others were from the outside. Don't think that Case/New Holland is/was an OEM supplier either; CNH was just the Ford distributor. You can try to look for parts that say MADE IN USA or CANADA but those are scarce now as well. There are a few good suppliers in the Charlotte NC area. Standard Ignition/Blue Streak points are USA. NAPA stocks a lot of Ford USA parts as well. Made in Mexico, Brazil, or India parts would be 2nd choice as they had USA quality control manufacturers and suppliers. Most all Cheena made junk just spits out cloned parts and have no QC in their factories. Do you think that the 8-year-old kid working for .50 cents a day at 12 hours a day making cheap carb or distributors does any testing? Think again.



Tim Daley(MI)

I prefer used/rebuilt OEM parts in just about all cases.

Indeed, I can think of no exceptions to this policy at this time.

Dean

I remember being able to get OEM for older Equitment life was good tho pricey...

I have a 87 chebby V10 on a lift and a 95 Ford F250 it sure chucks making aftermarket parts fit... : (

My appreciation for OEM dose grow...

Purchased a new PTO shaft here from YT. It did not fit as it came.

See the pic below. This is the old shaft but it shows the bad part that was on the new shaft.

See where the arrow is pointing. This round part of the casting was too large to fit in the round hole on the tractor. What i had to do was take a mill file and file it down to fit. I was lucky that I had a large mill file that I ordered because it had no teeth on one edge. So I was able to file down that round part and not scar up the face that faces the gasket. It was a lot of work and very careful filing to get it to fit. I hear that lots of other people have purchased a shaft here at YT and had no problems. Mine must have just been a fluke.

I have a 1" rotary file I could have chucked up in a drill motor and used to file and enlarge the hole in the tractor. This would have been easier going but then I would have had to worry about cleaning up all the shavings and making sure none went inside the rear end. By the way the new shaft from YT even came with the PTO cover on it.

used. . .
ignition points. . . coil. . . .ignition switch. . . .
That's 3 so far and I just fell out'a bed.
Have fun, going out to meet a buddy for breakfast.

And, of course, there is always NOS sitting somewhere in storage.

(quoted from post at 09:45:07 08/07/21) And, of course, there is always NOS sitting somewhere in storage.

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I wonder what a NOS 8N would be worth today?

I wonder what a NOS 8N would be worth today?

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Based on the cheap SOB's that keep low-balling me on my tractor I'm going to guess about $1,500, but only if you have a brush hog, a grader box, and a disc to throw in on the deal!

I can't tell you what an NOS N might be
worth but can tell you what a few NOS 3000,
3600 and 4000s are worth.

(quoted from post at 13:53:15 08/07/21) I can't tell you what an NOS N might be
worth but can tell you what a few NOS 3000,
3600 and 4000s are worth.


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How many of NOS 3000's, 3600's and 4000's have you ever run across? I don't think there is such a critter.

A freshly painted one is not NOS. My question was rhetorical.

I wish I had the time and energy to strip and paint one like you did though. Congrats. Is that you standing there and admiring your work?

This post was edited by Caryc on 08/07/2021 at 02:13 pm.

That is my best friend Kenny in the photo.
He's 85 now but still going strong.
He bought/traded the 3600 on the taller
stand from me.

In the late 60s up to about 1976 Ford
donated a bunch of tractors to high schools
and votechs around the country. They were
shipped just as you see in the last photo
that sits flat on the trailer. Many of them
were taken apart by many inexperienced
hands and boogered up. Some were totally
ruined. Some had fuel, a battery and a
radiator grafted onto them and test run for
a few hours
I have owned 6 complete ones of these and 3
or 4 halves or pieces of these 'School
Tractors'.
I would buy similar tractors, part them out
and put all the steering, tin, wheels, etc,
etc on these then sell them.
I still have two of them.
My little 3000 is actually a 1976 3600 but
I put the old style tin on it because I
like it better. It had been run for a few
hours but never taken apart when I bought
it. It was my first one of these. I bought
it I think 15 years ago and it might have
1000 hours on it now.
The yellow tractor is actually a 4000. It
had been taken apart some by the school
kids but I went through it all and made it
right. I built it as sort of an industrial
model about 5 years ago then hauled it up
to my property and it has sat in a shed as
too many other things have gotten in the
way. (Addition to the house, new garage and
a 2 year major rehab on my row crop tractor
which I'm just finishing)
I know it does not have 25 hours on it
since Ford made it in 1973 or 74.
I will bring it home this fall and finish
several odds and ends it needs then take it
back up and run the snot out of it for a
year or two. If I like it well enough it
will replace my 3000.
If I don't like it it will get sold as I
really don't need - or want three tractors.
I'm kinda getting 'done with' tractors and
want to move on to other interests.

PS,
Might as well show them all.
This is my row crop tractor that I rehabbed.
I still need to put the fenders back on it and wire it but it is nearly done now.
I had it out for a half hour drive today.
The yellow tractor in the photo is Kenny's.
It is a Ford 545 I bought then sold/traded to him.