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Fiat-Made Oliver And White Parts
Oliver and White owners having trouble finding parts for Fiat-made models can check with Rick Stair. Stair is owner of Rick’s Ag Parts, offering mainly parts and accessories for the Fiat-made Oliver and White tractors. However, he is expanding his list of parts to Massey and Ford.
“I try to keep in stock the common items that a customer may need in a hurry to keep in the field,” says Stair. “Water pumps, fuel pumps, starters, wheel bearings and such are priority items. Most other items can be drop shipped from one of several suppliers.”
Stair’s dad bought the Oliver dealership that was the basis for Rick’s Ag Parts in 1971. Stair grew up in the shop and became parts manager in the early 1980’s. When the dealership was sold in 1992, he worked for other dealerships for a time before setting up his own parts shop.
“I have accounts with most of the suppliers I worked with as a dealership, which opens up a wide selection of parts and accessories for other makes,” says Stair.
Stair offers parts online from his website as well as via phone sales. To help customers identify a given part, he offers parts illustrations for cooling, drive and other system components on his website.
“It’s often hard to identify the part to order without the parts number,” explains Stair. “After going to my website, a customer can call and tell me what page he is looking at and, working together, we can then identify the needed part.”
If the parts page has a red dot on the part, the customer can click on it and immediately go to the online store and order the part. If no red dot is on the part, a special order can be made by phone.
Scanned versions of parts manuals is a service he is planning to offer, including parts breakdowns, tractor specifications, wiring diagrams, old literature and other items.
Stair is also expanding his offering of hay and forage equipment parts with a separate website, www.bigbalerparts.com.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Rick’s Ag Parts, LLC, 874 Ridgecrest Dr., Wooster, Ohio 44691 (ph 330 466-2164; www.RicksAgParts.com).



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2011 - Volume #35, Issue #6