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Several months ago, I put a clutch in an 860. I needed a couple of oil seals for the tranny input shaft/PTO input shaft. I found the seals in a CR catalog, but wasn't ABSOLUTELY sure they were correct, so I ordered OEM seals though an FNH dealer. The seals arrived in sealed CNH bags, with the Ford part numbers ON the bags. Packed inside the bags were CR seals with CR part numbers on them, NOT the Ford part numbers. The CR numbers on the FNH-supplied seals corresponded with the CR numbers I had found in my CR catalog. So, I paid FNH prices for seals I could have got cheaper from my CR distributor. Nowadays, the old, heavily-built seals used as OEM are often unavailable, and the seals you get are made of thin, wimpy metal, compared to the originals, and are often narrower. That was even the case with the seals I ordered from the FNH dealer. This is often true at the RED and GREEN tractor stores, too. So, no problem in going to a local industrial bearings and seals store, and getting your seals through there.
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