Posted by fixerupper on October 18, 2017 at 06:31:23 from (100.42.94.143):
We all have one of these situations once in awhile. I have a customer Deere B in the shop with the head off to replace a valve. It had sat for awhile with the carb off, the mice made a nest in the manifold and the mouse pee pitted a valve and seat. The valve eventually burned, or at least that's my theory.
I pulled the head and dropped it off at the machine shop in Spencer when I was on the way to Sioux Falls October 5th. the rest of the valves were fine and the owner didn't want to spend any money on it so the order was to replace one valve. The guy who does heads wasn't there but he called me a few days later and I told him what I wanted done. I told him he had just as well order the new valve. He said he would order the valve and it would be there in the usual two days. A few days passed without a call from him so I stopped by the machine shop when I was in town. The valve had not shown up so they reordered it. I got a call last Monday Oct 16th, 11 days after I dropped it off, the head was done so I picked it up.
Now back to Oct 9th, four days after I dropped the head off at the machine shop I realized I had not ordered a head gasket and lead washers and I wanted it quick so I went to Deere for the gasket thinking I could get it in a couple of days. They said the gasket would be in on Wednesday the 11th with a stock order. I stopped there on Friday the 13th and no gasket. They checked the computer and found out it was coming from the Portland warehouse. I live in Iowa. They said it would be in on Monday the 16th. Yesterday I was driving by the Deere dealership and stopped in to pick up the gasket that was sure to be there by now but it wasn't. They called around and found out it went out on the wrong UPS truck. (sigh) This time I'm calling before I run to the Deere dealership.
To sum it up, what was normally a three day wait for the head to get done turned out to be an 11 day wait because the supplier of the valve forgot to send it to the machine shop. The two day wait for the gasket and washers turned out to be nine days, IF it's at Deere today because the gasket came from a distant warehouse and then ended up on the wrong UPS truck!
I am not whining or knocking anyone down here, this just happens to be one of those times when none of the cards fell right. The owner of the tractor is a little antsy to get it back but that's the way things go sometimes.
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