Must not use it much. My dad had a CA. He stayed on top of maintenance pretty good. But there was always something little. I will grant he used it pretty hard. But I ran for years with an 8N Ford. On average I plowed 10 acres a year (one year about 30 total) a did a lot more work with them too, mowed, brush hogged, post holes, rear blade the drive. Averaged 100 hour a summer on each. One had a weak engine that I rebuilt. But as far as repairs? Rear wheel seals and brakes on both. That's it. Over 6 or 7 years. Upgraded both to EI and 12 volt too cause I wanted to. Did the one when I rebuilt the engine. What made parts so available for the Ford N's was sheer production numbers. AC made less than 40,000 CA's (guess no one wanted them?????) while Ford made nearly 1,000,000 N's from the 9N to the NAA. 524,000 8N's alone.
So figuring you have the ability to figure things out. If you were going to make parts for old tractors and knowing that you are going to reduce cost through mass production (limited runs cost money) are you going to build parts for 524,000 tractors or are you going to build parts for 39,499? Where or where is the market at? Called Business 101. Are you even going to think about parts for a tractor that produced less than 4,000?
And no, making a run then warehousing isn't the answer either as they pay property taxes on warehouse space plus have to maintain those parts on an inventory system and annual inventories.
It's one of the reasons that good quality electrical parts like voltage regulators are so hard to find. Hear about guys buying anew one only to find out it's defective right out of the box. And going back 4, 5 or even 6 times to get a good one. Well they sell so few anymore that the only cost effective way to market them is to get them from China. Figure it out. There is what? Maybe a couple of million charging systems out there at best that use the same voltage regulator? With maybe a couple of thousand getting replaced each year? At best? Same thing with points. How many guys on here brag about make points last 10 years? Then cry like babies when they pay 20 bucks for a new set that burns up in just a couple of hours? Cause they are made by the cheapest bidder in China.
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