Looking for Mr. number dummy please
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Mountain Pass
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Looking for Mr. number dummy please
I am working on a 1974 F350 stering column.
I need the lower bearing and plastic race.
I contacted green sales and they sent me a large plastic ring that might fit something newer. The gentleman also said the number was changed and he can't help me.
My email address is srdubsco@msn.com
thank you in advance
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I need the lower bearing and plastic race.
I contacted green sales and they sent me a large plastic ring that might fit something newer. The gentleman also said the number was changed and he can't help me.
My email address is srdubsco@msn.com
thank you in advance
Come to a carlisle show and I will buy you lunch
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D3TZ3C773A was replaced by D9TZ3C773A which was replaced by D9TZ3C773B
D3TZ3C773A .. Steering Column Shaft Bushing / Obsolete-Replaced
Original applications: 1973 F100/350 2WD from serial number S40,001 / 1974/78 F100/350 2WD.
I found four D3TZ3C773A's NOS, but...
You need to see the parts catalog pic, because there's more to it than just this part. There's also a lower bearing retainer, bearing and plastic sleeve.
The bushing fits above the plastic retainer, inside the mast jacket.
Ask Green Sales to send you this parts catalog pic from the 1973/79 Ford LIGHT Truck Parts Catalog: Illustration Section 35, Page 18.
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Mountain Pass
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They sold me a D9TZ3C773A
It sounds like Green sales didn't have new enough books.
I am sending it back. I looked in NPS catalogue and ordered what they have which is supposed to fit a bunch of years. I ordered the bearing and the plastic bushing as well.
The top bearing Green sales sold me is D4TZ3517A. iT SEEMS TO BE CORRECT.
I sure don't understand why part numbers change. I am sure there is a good reason for it though.
It sounds like Green sales didn't have new enough books.
I am sending it back. I looked in NPS catalogue and ordered what they have which is supposed to fit a bunch of years. I ordered the bearing and the plastic bushing as well.
The top bearing Green sales sold me is D4TZ3517A. iT SEEMS TO BE CORRECT.
I sure don't understand why part numbers change. I am sure there is a good reason for it though.
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Ford is in-famous for updating 10's of 1000's of part numbers every
year.Then there's this load of CACA del TORO. In 1989, after the final editions of the 1973/79 Car (11/88) & Truck (10/88) Parts Catalogs were printed...Ford changed the package quantity of 1000's of parts.
When the idiots did this scheiss, they changed the part numbers suffix, rendering a gazillion original part numbers obsolete!
The problems are, besides the fact that none of these new part numbers are in any parts catalogs prior to 11/88, most of the parts guys that got into the biz beginning in 1989 do not know this, so...
When they look up part numbers for any of these vehicles, type them into the system, all come up as bad numbers, so they assume all are obsolete.
There are OSI (Obsolete-Supercede-Interchange) Catalogs that show what the original part numbers were updated to, but....
Many of the partsguys didn't (and still don't) wanna bother looking in those books.
This fiasco has cost Ford MILLIONS of dollars, and PO'd a lotta people.
