I posted this reply on the JD discussion board too.
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?
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